Vulture Squad

Vulture Squad is a squad of soldiers under the United States army, designated for raiding and liberating Viet-Cong prisoner of war camps.

History
At some point, General Amadeus Jericho would form Vulture Squad under the command of Captain Adam Mcneil to liberate POWs from Viet Cong encampments. Mcneil would go on to recruit Ryan Baker onto the squad. Some time later, Jericho would call the squad to investigate an area, telling them there was no Viet Cong presence. However, the squad would be attacked by Viet Cong mortar fire, killing everyone but Ryan, although he would be left hospitalized and scarred. Ryan's time in the hospital would give him an addiction to morphine.

Once Ryan recovered enough to return to combat, Jericho granted him the position of captain of Vulture Squad. In spite of the promotion, Ryan would go off to sulk in his tent and engage his morphine addiction, scaring many of the recruits he brought on and causing many of their deaths. Ryan would eventually manage to overcome his morphine addiction and recruit six other men he managed to keep alive: Xavier Wise, Logan Stovall, Gerald Keyes, Eli Taylor, Charlie Miller, and Leon Varnes, although Jericho had already gained a low opinion of Ryan and his team during Ryan's addiction and kept it long afterwards.

One time after a routine prisoner liberation, Jericho called the squad to his base in a valley deep within the Viet Cong territory. Once they had arrived, Jericho would tell them he needed to find a missing platoon of Green Beret while simultaneously berating them. After some rest and preparation, the squad loaded up on their helicopter The Father Vulture and flew towards the Green Beret's last known location. After a brief search in the initial area, they found some of the soldiers' belongings as well as evidence of what appeared to be a large bird. The group continued their search in the jungle, but became scared of an overpowering silence and broke into a sprint. When Ryan moved to far ahead, an unknown predator attacked and dragged him off, but was only able to break his boot and the skin beneath it before the rest of the squad caught up and repelled the animal with multiple shots to the back. Ryan led the group towards a game trail they had seen while on the helicopter ride, setting up camp in it. While the rest of the squad stayed behind, the Ryan and Leon investigated the area for the Green Baret.

While the pair were out, Xavier noticed a pack of arboreal predators stalking him from the trees, but they were scared away by the approach of a Tyrannosaurus. Xavier quickly hid in a tent from the predator, and it moved on without noticing him. Further away, Ryan and Leon discovered a Mother T. rex in her nest, and were chased out after accidentally waking her. She was quick to return to her nest however, and allowed the returning Father T. rex to chase them instead, ending in all three falling off a cliff into a river. Leon was dragged under and became unconscious, forcing Ryan to drag him to shore in spite of the Father's panicked attacks on them, and with the help of Andrei Wynn, the trio hid within the roots of a mangrove tree and revived Leon with CPR.

While Andrei took Ryan and Leon to his research station, the rest of the team had wandered away from the game trail and had found an orchard serving as a mating grounds for a herd of Stygimoloch. While trying to sneak around the herd, a pack of Deinonychus attacked the herd, forcing the squad to move into it in order to not be targeted, but abandoned the attempt when Eli was knocked over by one of the pachycephalosaurs. The squad fought the pack until most of the dromeosaurs were dead, with the last remaining members dragging Gerald off as the rest of the team chased them. Simultaneously, Andrei had told Ryan and Leon of how he had accidentally released the dinosaurs, before the three set out to find the rest of the squad. Coincidentally, the Deinonychus dragging Gerald dragged him pasted the group, allowing the squad to regroup and chase after the fleeing predators. Meanwhile, Gerald managed to kill two of his assailants, before the remaining Deinonychus retreated as a Utahraptor attacked Gerald, eviscerating him and holding down his airways while hiding amongst the foliage from the rest of the squad as they appeared. While still being pinned, Gerald managed to find his knife and stab the raptor in the chest, forcing it to screech in pain and retreat with Gerald before Logan leapt on the raptor and wrestle it before stabbing his own knife into its eye, getting it stuck as the raptor gave up Gerald and retreated.

The squad would return to Andrei's research base, where they were attacked by an entire hunting party of Utahraptors. They were able to hold the dromeosaurs off before the Cyclops and another member of his party attempted to break into glass pyramid of the building while the other two attempted to break in through one of the doors. Using this opportunity, they opened the door in order for Leon to knock the two outside back with a missed shot from his rocket launcher while the two on the roof fell through the pyramid and became disoriented. While the squad was escaping towards their helicopter, firing a flare so it could find them, the hunting party caught up and attacked, eviscerating Leon and nearly tearing Gerald in half. Realizing Gerald wouldn't survive, Logan shot Gerald and gave his body to the Utahraptors, allowing the group to escape with Leon to the waiting Father Vulture. Before they could leave, the Father T. rex attacked the helicopter, only releasing it under heavy gunfire. As the helicopter flew back towards the base, Viet Cong shot an rpg at the helicopter, missing but knocking out Miller and co-pilot Nguyen, but stabilized and returned to Jericho's Base.

The squad returned to Jericho's Base while it was under attack by The Dogs of War, shooting at sniper Sergei Medvedev and allowing for the capture of Nikita. The Squad rested at the base, while Leon was hospitalized and Andrei interrogated. Here, Ryan would confront Eli on his alcoholism and Logan's murder of Gerald, finding out the latter had schizophrenia. After temporarily dealing with these situations, Ryan saved Andrei from his beating as Jericho refused to believe his tale of the dinosaurs by telling him if the collider, and agreed with Jericho to have the squad travel with his Black Ops and Andrei upriver by boat to where the Viet Cong encampment holding Miller was and allow the Black Ops to scout the area before returning for the rest of the party.

The group set out, and Ryan used the trip to tell Andrei of how he was once addicted to morphine and how it effected his effectiveness as a leader before he got over it. Continuing their journey, the group encountered a herd of Triceratops and smaller dinosaurs. In spite of Andrei saying they're harmless until agitated, the two squads warily watched the animals before Xavier seemingly went crazy, before a hissing became audible to the rest of the group. A pack of crocdilian predators attacked the herds as the boat became stuck in an high spot of mud. Ryan tried to get Andrei to tell them what the predators were, but found him in a morphine high, throwing away what was left of the morphine and forcing Andrei to tell them about the animals, revealing they were a feeding frenzy of Kaprosuchus, and how they would attack anything that ran away from them. Ryan attempted to use himself as a distraction, but Logan jumped out first and ran into the bush while the rest of the group provided cover fire and pushed the boat out, while Logan continued, shooting the Kaprosuchus to vent his anger at the voices before being caught and devoured by the crocodilains. The predators would return to the now free boat, and watch as it sailed away as Ryan spotted a Kaprosuchus with Logan's confederate bandanna in its jaws.

Former members

 * Ryan Baker (Deceased)- Squad Captain. Utilized a CAR-15.
 * Xavier Wise (Deceased)- Second-in-Command and team medic. Utilized a machete for close-quarter combat and an M16A1 for ranged combat, left the team to become head of Stalker Force.
 * Charlie Miller (Deceased)- Utilized an M16.
 * Leon Varnes- Explosive ordinance expert. Utilized an M16 and a rocket launcher. Left the military and returned to college. Later rejoined Vulture Squad.
 * Gerald Keyes (Deceased)- Spotter for Logan, utilized an M-40 rifle and an M1911 pistol.
 * Logan Stovall (Deceased)- Sniper. Utilized an M-40 rifle. Also utilized a ka-bar knife for close combat.

Current

 * Eli Taylor- Utilized an Ithaca shotgun, became leader after being the last member of the original Vulture Squad to still be alive and on the team.
 * Ricardo Alvarez- Pilots the Father Vulture


 * Tembo- Medic