Gaz (Modern Warfare)

Lieutenant "Gaz" is a member of the Special Air Service, and the tritagonist of . He is also a playable character in . He is Captain Price's second in command, and trains Sergeant Soap in "F.N.G." of Day 0.
He was voiced by , who also voiced Ghost in , Wallcroft in , Tee in , and George Mason in .
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Gaz was born before the events of the series, and has an unnamed family back home. Gaz joined the Special Air Services and became the second of Captain John Price, and holds the record of the completing the course in nineteen seconds.
===Modern Warfare===
On Day 0, Gaz puts John "Soap" MacTavish through training in Credenhill, England by teaching him how to shoot from cover, from the sights and from the hip. He also teaches Soap that switching to his sidearm is faster than reloading his main weapon, and how to use a knife on a watermelon. Afterward, Gaz sends him to Captain Price, who puts him through the training course to prepare for their mission at the Bering Strait.
Gaz was part of the SAS team which was Price, Soap, Wallcroft and Griffen, who boarded on the cargo ship to retrieve the package at the Bering Strait. Despite encountering fighters from the top deck and inside the ship, they dispatch them and find the package, which was a nuclear device bound for somewhere in the Middle East based on the Arabic writing on the container and banner inside the cargo container. When attempting to leave, MiG fighters shot at the ship, making the team have to run their way to the Sea Knight, callsign "Big Bird", before the ship sunk into the sea.
Gaz and the team then worked with the Russian Loyalists to retrieve Nikolai, an informant who gave them the info on the cargo ship. Nikolai was compromised by the Ultranationalists, and was captured and tortured by them. Gaz, Price and Soap join up with Sergeant Kamarov, the leader of the Loyalists, and fight the Ultranationalists in a village that they controlled, raining BM-21 rockets on the civvies in the valley below. Gaz loses his patience with Kamarov after he withheld information on Nikolai as the Loyalists pressed deeper into the village and took out the BM-21s, and threatened to push him off a cliff, and Kamarov gives them the location. Gaz, Price and Soap rescue Nikolai after cutting off the power to the house he was in, allowing them to stealth kill the Ultranationalists inside, and board a helicopter to head to a safehouse.
Later on, the helicopter is shot down by a missile, and only few members of the SAS, including Gaz, Price, Soap and Nikolai survive the crash. The group are hunted by Ultranationalists and a helicopter, and kill all the soldiers and the helicopter with a Stinger. Afterward, Gaz and the team are informed that a AC-130 arrived to help them escape, and they are rescued by two Sea Knights. After learning of the nuclear explosion that killed thousands of U.S. troops in Al-Asad's capital city, Nikolai informed Gaz and the team that Khaled Al-Asad was hiding in a village in Azerbaijan where he had a safehouse in case the U.S. got too close to his capital city and gave his OpFor the order to blow the nuke to slaughter them while he was a safe distance away. Gaz, Price, Soap and Bravo Team assaulted all the houses in the village, and captured Al-Asad at the barn.
Gaz and Soap witnessed Al-Asad be tortured for information, and Gaz collects his phone, and gives it to Price. After hearing the voice on the other end, the captain executes Al-Asad, and tells Gaz that it was Imran Zakhaev, an Ultranationalist who he failed to kill back in Pripyat with his mentor, Captain MacMillan, in 1996, 10 years after the Chernobyl Disaster, when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR). After hearing of the story, the team are attacked by Ultranationalists that were coming to recover Al-Asad, and the group are told to hold their ground until a helicopter came to rescue them. After holding back their forces, the group are rescued by a Marine helicopter and USMC Force Recon team led by Staff Sergeant Griggs.
Gaz and the SAS joined with the United States Marine Corps in a joint operation to stop the Ultranationalists, first starting to capture Imran's son, Victor to lure out his father from underground. Teaming with Kamarov and the Loyalists, the group failed to capture Viktor, who committed suicide when cornered on a building rooftop. The SAS and USMC did another joint operation to retake a Russian nuclear missile launch facility from Zakhaev, who wanted to launch missiles at the West for the death of his son. Gaz, Soap and Price had to save Griggs, and succeeded in stopping the missiles after dealing with countless Ultranationalist soldiers guarding the facility and the launch control center, before uploading the abort codes provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense to self-destruct the missiles.
===Death===
After saving the West from destruction, Gaz and the team escape via jeeps and are pursued by the Ultranationalists and a helicopter. The group are stopped when the Ultranationalist helicopter takes out a bridge before they can cross it to escape, and the group fight against Ultranationalist soldiers on a bridge before being knocked out when a gas tanker explodes from being fired on by the enemy helicopter. Gaz regains consciousness before Zakhaev shoots him in the head with a Desert Eagle, but his death is avenged by Soap, who killed Zakhaev, right before Kamarov and his Loyalists arrive to evacuate the wounded, including Soap.
==Modern Warfare (2019)==
Main article: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick
In the 2019 reboot, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Kyle Garrick is nicknamed "Gaz" after the events of the campaign, and is one of the three playable protagonist.
==Gallery==
Gaz-COD-4.jpg|Gaz in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Gaz-death.png|Gaz's death by Zakhaev.
GazRemastered.jpg|Gaz in the remaster.
Win the War achievement image MWR.jpg|Photo of Gaz with Captain Price, Griggs and Vasqeuz after completing "Mile High Club" (remastered).
==Trivia==
*He is the announcer of the SAS in multiplayer.
*In the E3 demo, his name was Griggs, but was changed to Gaz.
*"Gaz" is short for "Gary" or "Gareth".
*He is similar to Ghost from Modern Warfare 2. As such, some theorized that the two were the same person.
**Both are the right-hand to their leaders (Price and Soap).
**Both are killed by the antagonist (Imran Zakhaev and General Shepherd).
**Both have the same voice actor.
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