Hanlon

Chief Hanlon is the grizzled leader of the NCR Rangers and war hero currently stationed in the Mojave Wasteland, operating out of Camp Golf in 2281. As the commanding officer, he is responsible for coordinating Ranger operations throughout the Mojave.
==Background==
Hailing from California, Hanlon is the head of the NCR Rangers and is one of its longest-serving members.Fallout New Vegas loading screens Hanlon served as a Ranger for over 40 years, joining before Elise became Ranger Chief around 2241. Over nearly half a century of service, he saw the Rangers grow from a small, rag-tag group of abolitionists with a clear moral sense into a large, professional military force that had trouble telling the good guys from the bad.The Courier: "How long have you been in the rangers?"Hanlon: "Oh, well. I guess it must be coming up on... forty years or so. Back before was chief, anyway. It was a heck of a lot harder then. Weren't as many of us to go around. But I think it was a lot easier to tell the good guys from the bad."(Hanlon's dialogue) 
Many of the things he saw as a Ranger changed him and his relationship with the Republic. One of these pivotal moments came between 2256 and 2261, when he led a team of six Rangers to investigate reports of raider attacks on a small settlement called Rattletail in Baja, California. It took the Rangers a week to get to Rattletail, losing one to night stalkers and another nearly dying of dehydration. What they found was a slaughter, including 24 bodies shot dead among the dunes, all by the five NCR settlers with .308 rifles who claimed the only well in fifty miles and opened fire on anyone who tried to reach it. None of the dead were heavily armed or raiders. To prevent further loss of life, Hanlon sold them a story about an incoming raider army, one hundred strong, and losing ten Rangers already on the way in. Then he offered to escort the settlers back to the NCR. They took the offer and eventually resettled in Anza-Borrego as bighorner ranchers. He considers this his one good deed in over 40 years of service.The Courier: "There must be something good the rangers have done that you're proud of."Hanlon: "[SUCCEEDED] It's kind of a long one, but all right. About twenty, twenty-five years ago, a group of NCR settlers pushed way south into Baja. I guess it doesn't seem so far now if you look at a map, but back then, they were out a ways. They built this little shanty town around a well in the middle of nowhere. Called it ."The Courier: "[Continue]"Hanlon: "Word got back to one of our stations that raiders had been attacking the place. I went out with six rangers. We must have been on the trail for a week before we got to Rattletail. We lost one woman to Night Stalkers and another almost died of dehydration. When we reach the place, it's six shacks set up around an old well."The Courier: "[Continue]"Hanlon: "There's over two dozen bodies lying in the dunes way outside of town and five men with rifles crouched behind sand bags. And these bodies, these people out in the sand, they aren't raiders. Aren't even heavily armed. They're just people who were trying to get to the only well in fifty miles. I didn't have to talk to the men to see that they did not care one bit."The Courier: "[Continue]"Hanlon: "They had planted an NCR flag over the well and they would not budge until every last one of them was laid out, dead and cold. So I walked up and told them there was a group of raiders coming, one hundred strong. The men looked at each other, looked at us, and asked me what we were going to do about it."The Courier: "[Continue]"Hanlon: "I told him we would take them back into NCR territory because we had already lost ten rangers on the way out. Ten rangers, five men with .308 rifles. Well, that was enough for them. They packed up what they could and we took them back north. Last I heard, they settled somewhere in -. Raised Bighorners. Had some tough times, but it worked out okay for them. So there you go. That's my one bit of good."(Hanlon's dialogue)
Despite his doubts, he served the Rangers and the Republic to the best of his ability. He developed a legendary reputation for his use of misdirection, traps, and ambushes, frequently executed with the use of explosives, especially mines. Caesar's Legion learned to respect his name in the wake of the First Battle of Hoover Dam,Ulysses: ""Ulysses: ""(Ulysses' dialogue) when his strategy broke up the Legion's offensive by luring the bulk of their forces across the Hoover Dam and literally blowing them up together with Boulder City.The Courier: "You said you made a promise not to kill me. Why?"Ulysses: "Caesar's orders. Some time before I realized the why of it. just you. couriers. No telling how many were Legion. Maybe all of them. Wasn't sure about you. Until the Divide... all the NCR burning... that much death, it bears the mark of a Legion hand. If you were Legion, then NCR beat you, the West changed you."(Ulysses' dialogue)The Courier: "[Legion] The dead? You mean your brothers in the Legion - our brothers."Ulysses: " "(Ulysses' dialogue) Highly influential among the Rangers due to his success and experience, Chief Hanlon has been honored many times for his contributions to the NCR. Although he no longer engages in combat operations, he nevertheless continues to coordinate Ranger operations. As a war hero and a veteran of countless campaigns, he is a powerful influence in military circles, and even has the president's ear, though Kimball tends to favor his own coterie of war hawks. This was evident when Hanlon's request to assign veteran Rangers to the Mojave was ignored in favor of deploying them to Baja.The Courier: "What's going on in Baja?"Hanlon: "It's complicated. Goes way back. I told President Kimball that we need more rangers here. He accepted that, but took the most experienced ones and sent them south. Patrol rangers are good men and women, but we're about to fight a war."(Hanlon's dialogue) The situation is not helped by the bitterness of General Lee Oliver at Hanlon receiving credit for winning the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Given that Oliver and Hanlon don't always see eye to eye on tactical decisions, he has faced an uphill struggle for the past several years.Courier: "Tell me about General Oliver."Hanlon: "Oh, well... now, you'll have to excuse me. The general and I don't always see eye to eye on things. Maybe it's best that I just say that he is a trooper, through and through. The man will not give up an inch for anything, least of all to the Legion."(Hanlon's dialogue)
As such, Chief Hanlon took a hard look at the Mojave Campaign and came to the conclusion that holding on to the Dam and New Vegas would eventually kill the Republic. The war against the Legion has left its toll on the men and women of the NCR Army, and along with his frustrations born from New Vegas bleeding dry NCR soldiers while relying on their protection, has left Hanlon fearing for the future of the NCR even should they succeed against the Legion. Hanlon believes the task of holding the Colorado River and the frontier safe is too much for the Army or even the Rangers to maintain long term. He decided to deliberately sabotage the war effort by manipulating intelligence reports sent in from Ranger stations across the Mojave, to convince the brass that the situation was more hopeless than it was in reality. In the end, he wished that the NCR would decide to cut its losses and abandon the frontier.The Courier: "How does spreading false intel help anything?"Hanlon: " It's been so many years that people forget about it. Conscription brings in fresh troops to die here every month. Like it's routine. Patrol the whole length of the Colorado for hundreds of miles? Holding this dam. "(Hanlon's dialogue) The Courier can discover this information and decide how best to handle the situation.Events of Return to Sender
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
* Return to Sender: It is discovered that Hanlon is falsifying field reports. Once discovered, the Courier can either let Hanlon continue with his plan, turn him into the NCR authorities, or in the event of Caesar's death, inform him that falsifying the reports is pointless as Caesar is dead.
===Other Interactions===
* With a Speech check of 50, Hanlon can be convinced to tell the story of Rattletail and his involvement in convincing its occupants to evacuate by telling a tall-tale.
===Effects of player's actions===
* Hanlon will thank the player character for helping Colonel Hsu with the Fiends leaders in Three-Card Bounty.
* If the Courier turns Hanlon in, he will give a brief speech over the intercom before proceeding to commit suicide. A Ranger will exclaim "That shot came from the chief's office," and will run in, guarding the body. Hanlon's Ranger Sequoia will be on the ground next to him but must be stolen. The speech is as follows:
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===Endings===
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==Inventory==
==Notes==
* Hanlon is typically found on the balcony of the House Resort within Camp Golf, and will not discuss quest matters except for when he is outside on the House Resort balcony. He mans the radio on the balcony from 8 AM to 7 PM.
* Hanlon may often be found sleeping next to other unnamed NCR rangers in bed. This is a result of emergent NPC behavior rather than any scripted narrative intent; Hanlon's double bed is not marked as owned, meaning that any non-player character with a Sandbox AI package, or the player character, is allowed to use it in place of or alongside Hanlon. The unnamed NCR rangers and veteran rangers in the House Resort all have a Sleep, Eat, and Sandbox AI package, and their Sleep packages are set so that they will only sleep in the barracks on the first floor of the resort. However, the rangers who are active at night are allowed to sleep during their Sandbox package (unlike the "day shift" rangers), and because their sandbox range allows them to wander the entire resort, they may end up sleeping in Hanlon's bed.
==Notable quotes==
==Appearances==
Chief Hanlon appears , and is mentioned in its add-ons Lonesome Road (dialogue of Ulysses) and Honest Hearts (Honest Hearts intro). Hanlon also appears in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.
==Behind the scenes==
* J.E. Sawyer wrote Hanlon.
* Hanlon, chief of the NCR Army Rangers, is voiced by Kris Kristofferson, who himself served in the United States Army as a helicopter pilot, and attended the U.S. Army's Ranger School.
==Bugs==
* Hanlon sometimes glitches and stops talking during his speech. The quest should go on as normal and he will shoot himself 20–30 seconds after he stops talking. This will happen even if you have your Pip-Boy up or if you've paused the game completely, and when you resume, the rangers will react accordingly. (You can still hear his speech in full by going to Data → Misc and playing the audio.)
* Even if the player convinces the chief to stop falsifying the reports, they will still get ending 2 (siding with the NCR) or ending 4 (siding with Mr. House or Yes Man) instead of endings 8 or 11, respectively. 
==Gallery==
FOWW,Hanlon.jpg|Chief Hanlon in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare
FOWW,ChiefHanlonUnitCard.jpg|Unit card
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File:Chief Hanlon Front.png|Collector's Edition playing card
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas human characters
Category:Lonesome Road mentioned-only characters
Category:Honest Hearts mentioned-only characters
Category:Collector's Edition playing card characters
Category:Fallout: New Vegas NCR characters
Category:New California Republic Rangers characters
Category:Camp Golf characters
Category:Fallout: Wasteland Warfare characters
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