Rick Flag, Jr.

An expert military officer, Rick Flag Jr the son of Richard Montgomery Flag , his father led the original incarnation of the Suicide Squadron and Rick Flag Jr took on the leadership of the team after his father's death.

The son of a Vietnam War veteran and grandson of a member of the World War II-era incarnation of Task Force X, Richard Flag, Jr. served the United States of America as a Navy SEAL and rose to the rank of colonel. He was awarded with a Purple Heart, Silver Star Medal, and, for actions in Afghanistan, the Medal of Honor, but refused to comply with an order he believed would result in the deaths of the soldiers under his command. For this, Flag was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, while his men, deployed without him, died as he had predicted.

When Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad was threatened with decommissioning by United States President Barack Obama, she recruited Flag as its field leader in the hopes of lending the team of government-controlled supervillain convicts accountability and discipline. Securing his release, she had Flag follow squad members Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and Harley Quinn into an abandoned Mongolian city to recover Mark Ljungberg, inventor of a superpower-granting Metagene bomb, from the criminal organisation the Dogra War. Taking control of the squad, Flag ordered Deadshot to kill Ljungberg to keep him from the criminals, and Harley Quinn to trigger the bomb, negating the abilities of the Dogra War's superhuman forces. The playing field leveled, Flag joined the Suicide Squad on the ground in combat against the powerless criminals.

Flag is a talented pilot that served in the military. Flag was so gifted his skills landed him jobs in special forces, commando, and a military tactician. Flag has mastered the way of using virtually every vehicle in the military like cars, tanks, boats, etc. Though not being a martial arts master Flag is a well seasoned and experienced combatant. Flag is a tactical expert and can come up with unorthodox but highly effective strategies. Flag knows his team well enough to use every soldiers strengths for his advantage in a fight.