Group Captain Grant Mewes, RAF (NPC)Call Sign: Mechanic
Nationality: British
Current Assignment: Commander, Task Force 47
Age: 46
TF47's commanding officer is a career RAF aviator, though he's spent several stretches in the RAF's intelligence apparatus. He was a founding member of the Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing, is rated as an instructor pilot on the Sea King and Chinook airframes, and is type-qualified in several other aircraft, both fixed- and rotary-wing. A lifelong frustrated astronaut candidate, he holds master's degrees in atmospheric science and astrophysics. A consultancy with Virgin Galactic is waiting for him whenever he chooses to retire.
Group Captain Mewes is a calm, affable, and even-handed officer with a weapons-grade vocabulary. He's not a doorkicker by nature or training, which makes him an odd choice to command a unit like TF47, but on more than one occasion he's landed his bird with door guns shot dry and an airframe that looks like a colander. He is easy for the uninitiated to underestimate.