Code Name: Snow Serpent Commander
File Name: Redacted
Primary Military Specialty: Arctic Operations
Secondary Military Specialty: Infantry
Birthplace: Redacted
Rank: Cobra Trooper Mark 3
Subject is the only survivor of an off-the-books operation ordered by President Lewis to a remote location in the Himalayas. The Snow Serpent Commander in question was able to temporarily reprogram an Arctic BAT to help him make his way back down the mountain after the wholesale slaughter of his squad. Footage recovered from the BAT is classified top secret as are all commentary from interviews with the commanding officer upon his return. President Lewis is insistent that once the Snow Serpent Commander is recovered well enough from his injuries - he also sustained hypothermia and frostbite on his return journey - the officer lead a second expedition to the site. The Snow Serpent Commander has put in a request for retirement, which has been denied.
"I've been to the ends of the Earth. Places where I swear to God men and my men, we were the only human beings to ever tread our heels on that soil and snow. I've heard whistles in the dark night. Babies crying where no babies should ever be. I swear I've heard voices call my name at high altitudes, when the oxygen is low and you start to hear and see things that aren't there. I shake off haints and goblins better than anyone. I know an oxygen-deprivation hallucination when I see one. That thing that came out of the mountain was no vision. It was meat and bone and claw and wing and it tore my men apart like a dog worrying a squirrel to death. But it wasn't no monster. No, I looked that thing in the eyes. I saw a human face staring back at me. Too big, yeah, with thick bones and teeth that gleamed in the moonlight, but it was a man. And it was not alone. No, it was a harbinger. You can't make me go back there. I've seen hell and it arrives on beating leather wings. I won't go. What's that? Yeah I have a daughter, why... Oh I'll kill you if you..." [The interview cuts out at this point.]
