Dramatis Personae:

POTUS – (DUKE OF VENICE).

 

 

MAJ. GENERAL YOO – (GRATIANO), Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejune, North Carolina (MARSOC).

 

BRIG. GENERAL BRABANTIO – (BRABANTIO), Commanding Officer, Marine Raider Regiment, Camp Lejune, North Carolina. Father of Desdemona.

 

COL. SANDERS – (LODOVICO), Commanding Officer, 3RD Recon Battalion, Okinawa, Japan.

 

GSGT MOORE – (OTHELLO), Congressional Medal of Honor recipient 2nd Force Recon Company, CampLejune, North Carolina. Husband of Desdemona.

 

DESDEMONA – (DESDEMONA), Daughter to Gen. Brabantio, and Wife to Gunny Moore.

 

LT. KAREN JOHANSON – (IAGO), Critical Skills Operator, MARSOC, Camp Lejune, North Carolina. Ex-lover of gunny MOORE.

 

CPT. CASSIOPEIA MARTINEZ – (CASSIO), Naval Aviator, CH53 Pilot. (Recently promoted thanks to Moore’s recommendation to General Yoo). Lover of Master Chief Bianca.

 

DOC. RODNEY BOUCHER – (RODERIGO), Navy Corpsman MARSOC, Camp Lejune, North Carolina. A childhood friend of Desdemona.

 

CPT. MONTANO KIM – (MONTANO), South Korean ROK Marines, working at Defense Intelligence Agency: HUMINT.

 

SGT. EMILIANO – (EMILIA), Scout Sniper, 3RD Recon Battalion, Okinawa Japan. Lover of Lt. Johanson (Iago).

 

MASTER CHIEF BIANCA – (BIANCA), Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) 3RD Recon Battalion, Okinawa Japan. Lover of Cpt. Martinez (Cassio).

 

SPECIAL AGENT OGIMACHI – Defense Intelligence Agency.

 

UNCLE ROBERT –  Kalapana, Big Island of Hawaii. Moore’s uncle. Moore’s mother moved from Honolulu to Uncle Robert’s after Moore’s father (a US Marine) died in Koh Tang, Cambodia in 1975.

 

UNCLE BILLY – Leader of the band at Uncle Robert’s Kalapana.

 

AUNTIE ROSIE – Kumu Hula, Moore’s aunt who introduced Moore to Hula and got him through his turbulent adolescent years before joining the Marine Corps.

 

BOOMER, SEA BASS, CLETUS – line dancers and patrons of The Blackened Catfish, New River North Carolina.

 

KIM JO-JONG – Vice director of the United Front Department of the Workers’ Party of North Korea. Sister of Kim Jong-un and head of North Korean Propaganda.

 

COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS,

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

NORTH KOREAN DIGNITARY,

BASS PLAYER,

HONCHO,

HOST,

JAPANESE POLICE OFFICER #1,

JAPANESE POLICE OFFICER #2,

PLATOON SERGEANT,

MARINE CORPORAL,

MP#1,

MEDIA OFFICER.