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Amy first appeared discussing with Admiral Ron and Secretary of Defense Marcus the growing pandemic and the Nathan James' mission to the Arctic. Amy suggests transferring her daughter onto the ship and both men agree. When the virus spreads to America a month after the Nathan James leaves, Amy is holed up in the White House with the President and his staff. She is appointed Acting Secretary of Defense when Marcus resigns over the phone and dies in his car. Amy briefs the President on the protocols to try and contain the virus and save the people.
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Amy contacts the Nathan James via Video Communication and introduces herself and apologizes for transferring her daughter onto his ship without his knowledge but Chandler simply replies that Alisha has been an asset to his team. She brings Commander Chandler up to speed on the status of the US Government and tells him how she survived. Chandler tells them they will arrive in a matter of hours and leaves to let Amy and Alisha catch up. She later greets Chandler and other crew members in a port in Baltimore and brings the executive crew to her headquarters. There, she tells them about the "Warlords" and implies they are thieves and murderers while giving them a tour. Amy then asks Chandler if he has the vaccine and when they say they instead have a cure, Amy shows him and Dr. Rachel Scott the facilities sufficient for mass-producing the cure.
Chandler requests using her radio room to search for his family and Amy allows it while she works on getting everyone on his ship to Avocet. When Chandler makes contact with his father, Jed, he tells him he is at a tire shop heading for Olympia with his family. Chandler goes out to find them with Amy sending some of her troopers with him to keep an eye on him. Amy later hears over the phone that her troopers engaged in a shootout with Chandler and his men over heading to Olympia. When Alisha walks in Amy hangs up the phone and pretends everything is normal. Alisha asks if they can go look for her girlfriend Sarah and Amy responds by saying it is too dangerous to go to Wisconsin right now and will try to make the trip soon. After Amy asks Alisha if Chandler will still follow orders, Alisha asks Amy what is going on and she tells her everything.
After Chandler and his allies cripple the power plant, Amy borrows a radio from one the troopers guarding Alisha, Vasquez, to call the power plant to ask what happened and is surprised to hear Lt. Danny Green taunting her. In response, Amy orders forces from the compound and the ship to secure and reactivate it, thus enabling the crew of the Nathan James to retake their ship, and leaving her compound vulnerable. In the midst of the power outage, Alisha escapes, and Amy orders her head of security, Lt. Landau, to secure her.
Her actions left thousands dead, including those killed at Olympia, eight members of the Nathan James' crew, Dr. Quincy Tophet, and Andrew Thorwald. Her troopers killed Dr. Tophet, Seaman Ford, Lt. Comm. Murphy, PO3 Foster (not Lt. Kara Foster), and Master-at-Arms Lopez to take over the ship on her orders. Lt. Comm. Barker and three U.S. Navy sailors were later killed when they retook the ship. During the assault on Avocet she had Thorwald ambushed and killed by a trooper named Crawford. They also left many survivors, especially her daughter Alisha, emotionally scarred. Despite her final claim, her choice to kill thousands of innocents for a few hundred by definition made her a monster, in addition to almost harvesting Kara's unborn baby to get the cure.
Dr. Rachel Scott, M.D., Ph.D. was the leading paleomicrobiologist aboard the USS Nathan James (DDG-151) alongside Doctor Quincy Tophet. She worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to create a cure for the virus that had wiped out most of the human race. Little is known about her personal life, however it was confirmed that she had a boyfriend whose fate was unknown; furthermore, she and Tex had a very close relationship. In the Season 2 finale she was shot dead after finding a way to spread the cure by person-to-person contact. In Season 3 she was on a stamp in a ration books as a way to remember her commitment. As well, Scott's efforts to create the "contagious cure" as it was called succeeded in stopping the pandemic. Her killer is later revealed to have been arrested and imprisoned for her murder. In the series finale, she reappears briefly when Chandler sees everyone he has lost along the way following the sinking of the Nathan James. She was portrayed by Rhona Mitra.
The oldest member of the Nathan James crew, CMC Russ Jeter is a decorated chief petty officer with over 20 years of service in the United States Navy (in one episode, CMC Jeter mentions that he has served under six Presidents of the United States, indicating that he has been in the Navy since the 1980s). In addition to his role as the ship's senior enlisted advisor, CMC Jeter also serves as the ship's de facto chaplain, leading religious services onboard and presiding over burials at sea.[2][5]
After graduating from high school, Kara joined the Navy.[citation needed] By 2014, she was serving as an officer in the Combat Information Center on the USS Nathan James (DDG-151). During the ship's mission to the Arctic, she began dating and fell in love with LT Danny Green (Travis Van Winkle), the leader of the Naval Mountain Warfare Unit deployed on the James.[2] In "Trials", Kara learns that she's pregnant, and that her child will be born immune to the Red Flu because of its mother's vaccination.[5]
In the first episode of season four, Kara wore the Navy Service Khaki uniform with the insignia of a Lieutenant Commander while being assigned to the U.S. Naval Station Rota in Spain. After the attack on the base and the injury of LCDR Cameron Burk, Kara returns to duty as the Tactical Actions Officer on the Nathan James.[9] In the season four finale, Kara plays a crucial role in the defeat of Vellek, using the Nathan James Close-In Weapons System to gun down the HS Triton's bridge crew, commanding officer and defending gunners, giving a boarding party a chance to take the ship.
In "A More Perfect Union", Tex departs the ship to search for his ex-wife and daughter, last seen in Jackson, Mississippi. He locates the place they were staying and finds out that his wife was killed by looters but his daughter, Kathleen (Jade Chynoweth) survived and is heading for where the Nathan James is spreading the cure. Tex goes after her, learning from an infected man (who he cures) that the Immunes are planning on exposing innocent people to the virus to destroy the people's trust in the Navy. Tex reunites with his daughter and teams up with a team from the Nathan James in Memphis, Tennessee to stop the Immunes. He succeeds, and in St. Louis introduces Dr. Scott to his daughter while helping pass around the cure.[8]
Senior Chief Petty Officer Wolf Taylor is a member of the Royal Australian Navy's CDT 3 (Special Forces). He was stationed on a military exchange program in Norfolk, Virginia alongside Lt. Ravit Bivas of the IDF during the outbreak of the Red Flu. He later joins the team aboard the USS Nathan James (DDG-151) under the command of Commander Tom Chandler after the ship arrives in Norfolk. In the series finale, he is severely wounded while during the invasion of Colombia. His ultimate fate is unknown, but he was last seen alive and being taken away on a stretcher. He is portrayed by Bren Foster.
Admiral Joseph Meylan is the former commanding officer of the USS Hayward, who joins the USS Nathan James after his ship was severely damaged by the Chinese Navy and has to be stripped of all usable parts and scuttled. He is portrayed by Emerson Brooks. The loss of his ship deeply affects Meylan who reveals that he had been a plank holder who had aided in constructing his ship. Meylan is unable to bring himself to detonate the scuttling charges, so Captain Chandler does it for him. Meylan briefly takes command of the Nathan James in S03E10 after he is ordered by the St. Louis White House to place Captain Chandler under arrest and relieve Captain Slattery of his command of the ship. He loses his command at the end of the episode after a team of Nathan James sailors led by Slattery gain access to the ship's armory and sequester sailors aligned with Meylan, including Meylan himself. However, at his own request, Meylan is released to aid in fighting the Chinese forces, sharing command of the ship with Andrea Garnett while both Chandler and Slattery are off of the ship. Meylan's leadership during the battle earns him the respect and trust of the Nathan James crew while Meylan comes to realize that they're right about Allison Shaw's coup. As a result, Meylan becomes a trusted member of the Nathan James crew, fighting alongside them to take down Shaw and her forces.
In Season 4, he replaces Andrea Garnett as the executive officer of USS Nathan James under Captain Mike Slattery.[9] During the battle with the Greek Navy, Meylan works with Chandler and Slattery to outfight the enemy fleet. Meylan comes up with what he dubs the Meylan Maneuver which lures out one of the enemy ships and destroys it. Meylan's experience as an engineer later comes in handy in directing Chandler and Sasha Cooper in how to sabotage the HS Triton. Once the ship is crippled, Meylan joins the boarding party that storms the Triton for the cure to the Red Rust.
Captain Andrea Garnett is the former chief engineer and executive officer of the USS Nathan James (DDG-151). LCDR Garnett is initially third in the chain of command on the ship, behind the Captain and XO. At the beginning of Season 3, she is promoted to full Commander and is Captain Slattery's replacement as executive officer of the Nathan James. She was captured by Japanese pirates and held as a P.O.W. along with several other crew members of the USS Nathan James,[19] but has now been rescued. She lost her husband and children during the Red Flu crisis. She is portrayed by Fay Masterson. 041b061a72