Leroy Gibbs

**Leroy Jethro Gibbs** is a former NCIS Special Agent in Charge of the NCIS Major Case Response Team which operates out of the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. Sometime in the early 1990's, he created The Leroy Jethro Gibbs Scholarship Fund.

He held this position up until March 2021 when he was suspended with his second-in-command, NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee succeeding him as the agent in charge of the MCRT.

In June 2021, Gibbs resigned from the team and NCIS for good, opting to remain in Alaska instead of returning to Washington D.C. and ultimately resuming his career as the leader of the MCRT. FBI Special Agent-Turned-NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker replaced him as the new leader of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.

## Family

Born in the small town of Stillwater, Pennsylvania on November 21, 1954, Gibbs was the only child of US Army Air Force veteran Jackson Gibbs and civilian housewife Ann Gibbs with Gibbs receiving his first two names in honor of Leroy Jethro Moore, Jackson's best friend and business partner. Gibbs states that he had an aunt who died at age seven. (NCIS:My Other Left Foot)

Gibbs had a very quiet upbringing but suffered a tragedy at the age of 14 when his mother died of cancer. It was revealed that she had actually committed suicide so that her husband and son would not have to watch her suffer, leaving Jackson a widower and also forcing him to raise young Gibbs all by himself.

Jackson blamed Moore for her death as she had confided in him about what she was going to do and he had not stopped her, with this secret breaking apart their friendship and neither Gibbs nor his father seeing Moore again for many years.

As a teenager Gibbs faced confrontations with Chuck Winslow and Ed Gantry and became captivated by local girl Shannon Fielding, later Shannon Gibbs, who he would properly meet for the first time before being deployed. It is later revealed that Shannon inspired Gibbs to create his rules as she was creating her own set of rules to live by. They later married in December of 1981 and had a baby girl sometime in 1982 whom they would name Kelly Gibbs.

In *Semper Fidelis* Gibbs mentions that his grandfather had a still and that it blew up once.

After graduating from high school, rather than going to college Gibbs chose to join the United States Marine Corps instead. Gibbs enlisted in 1972 and shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island for recruit training, gaining the serial number 817657329 in which he added a G after to close friends.

After graduating from bootcamp, Gibbs shipped out to Camp LeJeune for further training. There he befriended fellow Marine Joan Matteson, but she was one of several Marines killed in a helicopter crash in April of 1972 after she was deployed to Okinawa, Japan.

Gibbs's early years in the Marine Corps were with the Military Police. He rose to non-commissioned officer rank. Later, as a Sergeant, Gibbs became a Scout Sniper and saw several overseas deployments. In 1989-1990, Gibbs deployed to Panama as part of Operation Just Cause, and then in January of 1991, he deployed to Kuwait with the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines during Operation Desert Storm.

His commanding officer during Desert Storm was Lieutenant Colonel William Ryan. Gibbs' Lieutenant, David Cameron, died in Gibbs's arms during a battle after trying to save Gibbs' life.

As a Marine, Gibbs befriended Bushnell, future Senator Patrick Kiley, and Charles T. Ellison, three people he would once encounter during his time as an NCIS agent.

In early 1991, Shannon witnessed the murder of a marine by Mexican drug cartel leader Pedro Hernandez and agreed to testify against him, with her and their daughter Kelly being placed under the protection of a NIS Special Agent Kurt Mitchell. However, Mitchell was shot in the head by Hernandez while he was driving them and died instantly, both Shannon and Kelly dying in the resulting crash.

During his deployment in Desert Storm, Gibbs received the news that both Shannon and Kelly had been murdered. Being understandably grief-stricken and devastated, he was wounded during an engagement and was left comatose for nineteen days. As he had been wounded in combat with an enemy force, Gibbs was then awarded the Purple Heart medal.

Gibbs was an in-patient at Bethesda up until June of 1991. During his recovery process, Gibbs visited the graves of his dead wife and daughter who were buried while he was in a coma. They did have a memorial service for the girls, however, once Gibbs was physically well enough to attend. He also met NIS agent Michael Franks who was investigating the girls’ deaths.

Once he had recovered, Gibbs personally traveled to Mexico and shot dead Pedro Hernandez in revenge. He was investigated for the shooting by Lieutenant Lara Macy of the USMC Military Police but she closed her investigation after learning about the circumstances that led to the shooting.

In 1991, after a final (classified) drug interdiction mission down in Colombia, Gibbs was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Gunnery Sergeant.

Following that, in August of 1992 Gibbs joined the Naval Investigative Service presumably having been impressed and inspired by Franks' actions. He subsequently became a Probationary Agent with Franks handling most of Gibbs' training.

As a probationary agent, Gibbs worked alongside Dwayne Cassius Pride, Dan McLane, Felix Betts and Michael Franks. The posse were dubbed the "Fed Five" and gained national recognition for their work on the Privileged Killer case.

Gibbs also met Vera Strickland, Franks's partner at the time.

After Franks had retired from NIS/later NCIS in 1996, Gibbs began working as an undercover agent. He also traveled the world while serving as a training officer to NCIS Special Agent Stanley Burley.

In 1999, NCIS Special Agent Riley McCallister sent Gibbs to Europe, the destination being Paris, France where Gibbs met NCIS agents William Decker and Jennifer Shepard, as well as Medical Examiner Donald Mallard

During their time in Paris, Gibbs and Jenny participated in a mission with Decker serving as their handler with the objective being to eliminate Russian arms dealer Anatoly Zhukov and his fiancée, Svetlana Chernitskaya. Gibbs managed to kill Zhukov but Jenny hesitated and let Svetlana escape.

Gibbs and Shepard became partners and eventually lovers with the relationship soon ending after Jenny left Gibbs a "Dear John" letter.

Gibbs was later assigned to Moscow where he worked alongside NCIS Special Agent G. Callen.

Later, Gibbs served as an Agent Afloat on board an unnamed Navy ship in the Mediterranean.

Upon his deployment ending, Gibbs returned home and found his then-wife, Rebecca Chase in bed with another man. As such, Gibbs and Rebecca divorced.

In 2001, Burley became an Agent Afloat while Gibbs was assigned to the NCIS Headquarters located in the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. This happened concurrently with Gibbs' divorce from Rebecca, as shown in flashbacks in *Baltimore*.

While there, Gibbs formed his own team originally composed of former Baltimore Police Department Detective Anthony DiNozzo, Forensics Specialist Abigail Sciuto and Ducky with former FBI agent Vivian Blackadder later joining the team a few months after the attack on the *U.S.S. Cole* that had killed her brother, Rex.

## Abilities

As both a former Marine and a former NCIS Special Agent, Gibbs is a man with a unique range of abilities, many of which have made him a great asset to the NCIS agency.

### Hand to Hand Combat

During his time in the Marines, Gibbs presumably learnt how to fight and is an exceptionally skilled fighter, able to subdue opponents.

### Firearms

Having served as a Marine sniper, Gibbs is an ace sharpshooter.

## Appearances

* NCIS ( 19 seasons; 418 episodes)
	+ Season 1:Yankee White; Hung Out to Dry; Seadog; The Immortals; The Curse; High Seas; Sub Rosa; Minimum Security; Marine Down; Left for Dead; Eye Spy; My Other Left Foot; One Shot, One Kill; Enigma