Nick Womack

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Womack leads or works closely with a team that includes men such as Wolf, Wilco, Ferg, and Fern. He is rough, skeptical, and darkly humorous. At the black site in Iran, he complains about sand, drinks whiskey from a flask, plays cards, and reminds himself that getting his men home alive is the most important thing.

This makes him different from Gibson. Womack may be morally compromised by his work, but he still thinks first about his team. Gibson thinks first about the program.

Recovery of Trevor Brett

General Reed introduces Womack to Major Gibson as the man responsible for retrieving the lost property, meaning Trevor Brett. Womack reports that he lost two men and that a third is badly hurt. Gibson thanks him but immediately frames the recovery as world changing. Womack responds with suspicion, sensing that the scientist's priorities are not the same as his own.

This exchange clarifies Womack's position in the chain of sin. He delivers the ruined man back to the people who will study him, but he does not share Gibson's awe. He has seen too much blood to treat the result as clean success.

After the jungle

Jimmy Linh notices that Womack is not the same man after the Ma Trang hunt. The jungle has taken something from him. That observation matters because it gives Womack emotional weight even when the story does not fully follow his interior life.

The recovery is not a simple triumph for the operators. It leaves dead men, wounded survivors, coerced witnesses, and a caged Trevor Brett returned to a system that sees him as the future of warfare.