Minor Characters
Migliaccio
Migliaccio wears several hats in Rasczak’s Roughnecks, embodying the M.I.’s “everyone works, everyone drops” ethos. He is first section leader, the platoon’s chaplain, and he’s responsible for suit maintenance. He dies covering a pickup shortly before Johnnie goes to Office Candidate School.
Dizzy Flores
Dizzy Flores serves in Rasczak’s Roughnecks as a cap trooper. He’s in Ace’s squad, and when he’s wounded in an action against the Skinnies, Ace, Johnnie, and Jelly risk their own lives retrieving him, even though he dies on the way back to the Roger Young.
Captain Deladrier
Captain Deladrier is the talented, respected, and beloved skipper of the Roger Young. She’s an able pilot, and she demonstrates her skill when she recalibrates her orbit on the fly to pick up the boat on a botched retrieval.
Major Malloy
Major Malloy is the Regimental Commander when Johnnie is in basic training, and he presides over the administrative punishment for actions Johnnie took contrary to doctrine while on a drill at Camp Currie.
PFC Dutch Bamburger
When Johnnie is assigned to Willie’s Wildcats, Dutch Bamburger is his section leader. Bamburger dies on Klendathu in “Operation Bughouse” when he and Johnnie are caught unawares by a Bug.
General Diennes
General Diennes leads the first assault on the Bugs’ home world, Klendathu, where he dies leading the diversion that covers the rescue of those infantrymen who were able to escape from the failed operation.
“Red” Greene
“Red” Greene is the leader of Johnnie’s squad when he joins the Roughnecks. He beats Johnnie in a boxing match to reinforce Roughneck discipline after Johnnie talks back to him.
Lieutenant Silva
Lieutenant Silva led the 1st platoon of Blackie’s Blackguards under Captain Blackstone. Because he came down with “twitching awfuls,” he’s in the hospital and unable to mentor Johnnie on his apprenticeship cruise, allowing Blackstone to take over that job.
Jimmie Bearpaw
Jimmie Bearpaw travels with Rico’s Roughnecks under Johnnie’s command as a temporarily commissioned officer-in-training.
Heinreich
Heinreich is a German recruit with Johnnie at Camp Currie who fights with Meyer and still loses hand-to-hand combat with Sergeant Zim on the first day.
Meyer
Meyer is a German recruit with Johnnie at Camp Currie who fights with Heinreich and still loses hand-to-hand combat with Sergeant Zim on the first day.
Barbara Anne Enthwaite
Barbara Anne Enthwaite is the “baby girl” whom Dillinger kidnaps and eventually kills. She symbolizes what the M.I. recruits are preparing to protect, not to ruin.
Johnson
Johnson is the first cook and second section leader of Rasczak’s Roughnecks.
Madame Ruitman
Madame Ruitman is a friend of the Ricos’ who doesn’t understand that civilians aren’t exempt from wartime violence.
Miss Kendrick
Miss Kendrick is Colonel Nielssen’s civilian personal assistant at Officer Candidate School. She’s extremely knowledgeable and efficient and understands that her place is outside of the military hierarchy.
Captain Jorgenson
Captain Jorgenson is the skipper of the Tours. She’s formal and aloof but isn’t too strict a disciplinarian. She takes over tutoring Johnnie in math and wants his homework to be perfect every time.
Second Lieutenant “Rusty” Graham
Lieutenant Graham commands the 3rd platoon in Blackie’s Blackguards and serves as Johnnie’s first math tutor aboard the Tours.
Corporal Bronski
Corporal Bronski is one of the instructors at Camp Currie.
Corporal Jones
Corporal Jones is one of the instructors at Camp Currie.
Corporal Mahmud
Corporal Mahmud is one of the instructors at Camp Currie and one of the witnesses to Ted Hendricks’s insubordination.
Aunt Eleanora
Aunt Eleanora is Johnnie’s Mother’s sister, and she’s the one who ultimately informs Johnnie of his Mother’s death.
Second Lieutenant Khoroshen
Lieutenant Khoroshen is commander of the 2nd platoon in Blackie’s Blackguards
Major Xera
Major Xera is the battalion commander of the battalion that includes Blackie’s Blackguards.
Cunha
Cunha is a section leader serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Navarre
Navarre is a cap trooper serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Naidi
Naidi is a section leader serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Bjork
Bjork is a cap trooper serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Malan
Malan is a cap trooper serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Hughes
Hughes is a cap trooper serving under Johnnie in Blackie’s Blackguards.
Angel
Angel is one of Johnnie’s roommates in Officer Training School, and the only one to greet him on his return from his apprenticeship cruise.
Mr. Salomon (“Sally”)
Sally is one of Johnnie’s classmates at Officer Training School.
Clyde Tammany
Clyde Tammany is one of Johnnie’s classmates in Officer Training School.