Major General Homer Phillip] was a high ranking officer in U.S. Army Intelligence. He was the mission coordinator who recruited Alan "Dutch" Schaefer's mercenary team, at the request of CIA agent Al Dillon, for a mission in the Republic of Val Verde in 1987 to rout out rebels and their soviet advisors and, if possible, to find out what happened to a previous team lead by Jim Hopper, who disappeared. Since they knew he didn´t want this sort of missions, they lured him into it with a fake story.