Nomad

Dominic Rubio, callsign "Nomad", is a former Ghost Recon operator, who served as a Support Gunner of the Kingslayer Team when he was part of Ghost Recon. He is the one making the important decisions. In the U.S. Army, he was trained to leverage the expertise of each member of his squad for success. Along with his fellow Ghosts Holt, Midas and Weaver, Nomad was deployed in Bolivia as part of Operation Kingslayer, a joint operation between CIA, DEA, and JSOC to dismantle the powerful drug cartel, Santa Blanca. Working with their CIA handler, Karen Bowman, Nomad and his team worked to dismantle the Cartel with full autonomy, doing what they saw needed to be done on their terms. Unfortunately, Kingslayer ended in failure with the revelation that government corruption had significantly hindered operational progress on Kingslayer. To make matters worse, the Kingslayer team was forced to go dark after an anonymous whistleblower leaked evidence of the Ghosts' operational activities to the public, leading to a nationwide manhunt for the Kingslayer Team. However, Nomad was able to get his team out safely. 
CIA asset “Matchwood” has remarked on his abilities, and Cole D. Walker trusted him.
== Biography ==
=== Early life and military career ===
Dominic Rubio was born in 1976 in New Jersey. Rubio was an Army brat who spent his childhood moving from base to base. He joined the US Army at the age of 18 and underwent selection for Delta Force at 25. Rubio spent three tours with counter-terrorist Task Force 88 before being recruited into the Group for Specialized Tactics (The Ghosts).
=== Ghost Recon career ===
In the year 2014, Dominic Rubio, operating under the callsign "Nomad", was caught up in the Mexican Rebellion and found himself fighting alongside the Ghost operators Staff Sergeant John Hume and Captain Nick Salvatore. After being recruited into the Ghosts, he was assigned to a squad with Sage, Joker and Weaver. During a mission in Donetsk, Sage, and Joker were injured and Nomad was put in charge of a new squad with Holt and Midas, which displeased him due to it not being “protocol.” Their first mission was to retrieve or destroy a downed UAV in South America, as well as rescue archaeologists and a research team from militants who were keeping them as hostages.
In 2016, Nomad was called up to be one of the commanders of a joint operation between Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six and 4th Echelon, codenamed Operation Kingslayer, which was authorized by the United States government in response to the murder of a DEA agent named Ricky Sandoval. 
During his initial briefing for Operation Kingslayer, Nomad saw surveillance footage of kingpin El Sueño executing the family of a Bolivian police officer, which further convinced him that El Sueno was behind the nuclear bomb attack on Mexico City. Stating that this footage has haunted him ever since, he made a vow to do everything he could to stop El Sueño.
=== Events of Operation Kingslayer ===
In 2016, Nomad participated in Operation Kingslayer. His team consisted of fellow Ghosts Midas, Holt and Weaver. 
Upon their arrival in Bolivia, the Ghost team was tasked by CIA officer and handler Bowman to rescue a Mexican engineer named Daniel Rodriguez Arellano, who worked as a technical director for megacorporation and tech company Skell Tech, who had been arrested by UNIDAD and was being held prisoner in an underground UNIDAD facility. Bowman claimed that Arellano knew something about the DEA agent's death, which got him arrested by UNIDAD. Unbeknownst to Nomad and the team, fellow Ghosts operative Cole D. Walker got to him first, having massacred the Skell Tech prisoner’s UNIDAD guards singlehandedly.
After navigating through the facility, Nomad found Walker and an unconscious Daniel. Walker claimed that Arellano had turned traitor and was feeding secrets to UNIDAD. Furthermore, Walker accused Arellano himself of being one of the co-conspirators Sandoval's murder and that Karen Bowman was somehow protecting him despite his guilt. Unfortunately, UNIDAD sent reinforcements after discovering the aftermath of Walker’s rampage and Walker assisted Nomad and the Ghost team in extracting Daniel to a safe house in Inca Camina, southern Bolivia.
Nomad suspected something bigger was going on and decided to retask his team with tailing Arellano, discovering that Daniel had arranged to meet with the Ghosts’ CIA handler without any security.
Nomad immediately reported his findings to Walker, who directed them to an airfield in nearby Malca Province. Upon their arrival, Walker revealed that he’d had led a team that were killed by drones he claimed Arellano helped UNIDAD build using stolen US national security secrets. He swore his vengeance, but Nomad told him to hold off on his craving for vengeance until they figured out what was happening.
Guided by a tracker Walker planted on Daniel, the team reached a farmhouse guarded by UNIDAD patrols. After eliminating them, Nomad confronted Daniel, who admitted to being coerced by UNIDAD into selling out Bowman and that she had been taken to Mobile Operating Base Jaguar in Floro De Oro province. Walker executed Daniel afterwards, much to Nomad’s outrage.
Upon reaching the base, Walker told Nomad of an UNIDAD captain who knew where Bowman was being kept before reaching the location himself. Nomad and his team interrogated the UNIDAD captain and eventually located Bowman, tied to a chair while Walker attempted to interrogate her. Walker then told her that UNIDAD had a data server in the building that he had reason to believe contained proof of Arellano's collusion with UNIDAD and that Bowman was covering for him. Walker asked Nomad to hack into UNIDAD's computer system and obtain the data containing this so-called evidence. A disbelieving Nomad eventually agreed, but not before cutting Bowman loose. UNIDAD, alerted to the breach, sent reinforcements to kill the Ghosts and recover the stolen information, but Nomad and company were able to successfully repel the UNIDAD forces and escape with Bowman, the so-called "evidence" and Walker. 
Upon their arrival, Bowman attempted to defend her actions against Walker’s claims that Bowman was committing treason by helping an alleged enemy spy. While Bowman argued that she had orders to safeguard the interests of US personnel in Bolivia, as well as the Bolivian people, Walker argued that Bowman should've executed Daniel the second she knew he'd turned (a claim Bowman didn't believe at all), and that Bowman could soon be selling information herself if she could protect such a person. Bowman retorted by cursing Walker, causing him to erupt in a rage about how her orders got his men killed and aided UNIDAD. Fortunately, Nomad was able to talk Walker down before things got ugly. Walker, being an old friend of Pitbull, chose to trust his judgment, warning Bowman that if she strayed from the law again, he'd come to "collect that debt."
Nomad then met with Walker privately to review the info on the data drive. Much to his horror, Nomad discovered not only evidence confirming Walker's accusations against Bowman and Arellano, but also that Bowman had interacted with a man who had gotten ahold of intel on CIA agents operating in Bolivia. They made preparations to eliminate the traitor, but found out from one of the Kataris 26 rebels that someone else had beaten them to it and had already killed the informer. 
Due to this new intel, the Ghost Team was made aware of a separate crusade against Santa Blanca, courtesy of a college student named Ralph Rager. Nomad expressed his disbelief at how one man could do so much damage against a cartel as big as Santa Blanca, but eventually learned that Ralph didn't act alone. Rather, his war against SB was part of a collaborative effort involving Ralph himself and DedSec hacker Aiden Pearce. He also learned that Cole Walker was the uncle to Gauge Walker, one of the participants in Ralph's vengeful crusade. Both Nomad and Cole Walker thanked Ralph for his actions to safeguard US secrets. Sometime after this, Ralph managed to get in contact with General Baro's daughter, having rescued her from kidnappers working with a rival cartel. Learning of this incident, Nomad and Walker both realized that Santa Blanca was also being attacked from within, that deserters within SB wanted to get rid of El Sueno, wanting nothing to do with Santa Blanca. 
The Ghosts then went after El Pozolero, a mentally handicapped man who was put in charge of melting the corpses of people murdered by the cartel. Despite his mental handicap, El Pozolero was able to tell the Ghosts that the nuke that destroyed Mexico City was built by Europeans, though he could not positively ID the country's name. He also told them that Santa Blanca had made a business deal with this European nation alongside UNIDAD, but that someone in Santa Blanca got greedy, stole the nuclear weapon and used it to destroy Mexico City. 
By this point, the Ghost team was confused, as they had no idea why someone in Santa Blanca, let alone a Mexican national, would want to blow up the capital city of their country of origin. They managed to find the answer to that once they captured El Muro, El Sueno's head of Security: El Sueno was perceived by many in Santa Blanca to be a tyrant and many in the cartel now wanted out. He then confirmed that someone in Santa Blanca had been responsible for stealing the nuclear weapon from the Russians and detonated it in Mexico City to destroy it, though he refused to name the perpetrator. After several failed attempts to get El Muro to spill, Nomad executed El Muro. 
After he got back from Bolivia, Nomad privately contacted Walker and told him that he had been right about the United States government all along.
=== Middle Eastern deployment and leaving the military ===
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=== Operation Red Patriot ===
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== Personal details ==
=== Personality ===
Always remains completely calm, even under the greatest pressure, Rubio is the epitome of the strong and silent soldier type: able to repress his emotions and to remain completely objective under any circumstances. Past teammates would joke about checking his pulse during freefall jumps to make sure he was still alive. He gets antsy when on Rest & Recuperation and has trouble adjusting to the “mundane day-to-day life” when not deployed. This affects his personal relationships outside the military. 
That being said, Rubio is not unhinged; sometime after returning from Bolivia, he learned that his wife Mia died while he was deployed, devastating the man.
=== Physical appearance ===
Dominic Rubio is a tall, stocky Latino man with short, black hair and brown eyes. He has a tattoo on his left arm.
=== Habits and beliefs ===
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== Gallery ==
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