Alan "Dutch" Schaefer

Major Alan Schaefer, better known as "Dutch" and also nicknamed "Onyx", was a mercenary and the leader of a private military team. In 1987, Dutch and his men were hired by the U.S. military and the CIA for a "rescue mission" in Guatemala. After discovering that their mission was a set-up to dupe them into eliminating the rebels in the area, Dutch's squad came into contact with a Predator that stalked and killed the elite mercenaries one-by-one.

Dutch was a specialist in guerrilla engagements and had been posted in both Da Nang and Cambodia during and after the Vietnam War, alongside Al Dillon. He was one of only two survivors of the encounter in Guatemala, the other being guerrilla member Anna Gonsalves. He was subsequently interrogated by the OWLF regarding the incident, but he later escaped from their custody and disappeared.

In his school days, Dutch had been a football star. After leaving college, he attended boot camp with Jim Hopper in 1967 and had a brother named John who was a detective in the NYPD.

Dutch went on to serve in the Vietnam War alongside his close friend Al Dillon, seeing action at Da Nang. At one point during the war, Dutch was captured and brutally tortured by the Viet Cong; the prolonged interrogation eventually caused him to become resistant to pain. Following the Vietnam War, he served in various commando units, including a mission in Malaysia in 1979 with Hopper that nearly claimed both of their lives. He later reunited with Dillon for operations in Thailand, and while serving there the men obtained matching lighters of personal significance.

In 1980, Dutch left the United States Army and set up his own private military company, mainly recruiting other US Army personnel.

Dutch's team saw operations in Angola, Cambodia, Lebanon and Afghanistan. More recently, the team dealt with a terrorist siege at the Sudanese Embassy in Berlin, Germany, assaulting the building and eliminating seven terrorists in under ten seconds. Not only did the operation in the center of the city go totally unnoticed by the world's press, the terrorists were eliminated before they even had a chance to call in their demands.

A notable condition of employment for Dutch and his men was that they only ever operate as a rescue team, and he refused to take on any mission where the prime objective was the elimination of enemy personnel, such as a proposed operation in Libya that he turned down.

In 1987, Dutch and his men were deployed to Conta Mana in Central America, meeting there with Al Dillon, who now worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. The team had been hired for a mission to rescue a Conta Manan cabinet minister and his aide, who had been kidnapped by guerrilla forces in neighboring Guatemala. After being inserted into Guatemala aboard Redbird Two Two, Dutch's team quickly discovered the wreckage of the helicopter that had been carrying the captured cabinet ministers and, later, several US Army Special Forces soldiers, who had been skinned alive and hung from the trees; one of the dead men was Dutch's old friend Jim Hopper. Dutch and his men pressed on to the guerrilla camp where the hostages were being held, arriving just in time to witness a Soviet military advisor executing a hostage. Dutch's team launched their attack, wiping out the camp in short order, although they found that the other hostages were also already dead.

Dutch and his men quickly deduced the "cabinet ministers" had actually been CIA agents, and, after confronting Dillon, he learned the mission had been a set-up from the beginning — the agents had been captured reconnoitering for an attack and, after Hopper's team vanished while attempting to rescue them, Dillon created the cabinet minister story to manipulate Dutch into destroying the guerrillas. Infuriated that a once close friend had betrayed him, Dutch and his men made for their extraction point, although Dillon ordered them to take along the sole surviving guerrilla, Anna, as a prisoner. It soon became clear something was stalking Dutch's team. Despite Dutch's improvised attempts to kill the creature, including an elaborate ambush involving traps constructed from the forest itself, over the next 24 hours Hawkins, Blain, Mac, Dillon, Billy and Poncho were all killed, leaving just Dutch and Anna alive, the latter apparently spared, because she was unarmed. After sending Anna on ahead to the extraction helicopter, Dutch made a stand against the Predator that had hunted his team, although he was quickly outmatched and lost most of his equipment in a desperate escape over a cliff and down a waterfall. However, when he accidentally covered himself in wet mud, he unintentionally rendered himself invisible to the Predator's thermal vision, thereby learning a crucial lesson.

After constructing improvised traps and weapons, including a bow, spears, incendiary grenades and several explosive arrowheads (using unfired rounds for his M203 grenade launcher), Dutch once again covered himself in mud to mask his thermal signature and confronted the Predator one final time. Though the creature fell victim to a number of Dutch's traps, they failed to kill it. The situation deteriorated when Dutch fell into a pool of water during the confrontation, stripping him of his camouflage, and he was forced to face the Predator in a hand-to-hand duel. Despite Dutch's impressive physique, he was no match for the creature and received a savage beating. In desperation, Dutch managed to lure the Predator underneath the counterweight for one of his traps, triggering it and causing the huge log to crush the creature. The Predator, mortally wounded, activated its Self-Destruct Device and Dutch narrowly escaped the resultant explosion, eventually being picked up by the extraction helicopter. After being rescued from Guatemala, Dutch began experiencing adverse health effects akin to radiation sickness, apparently from exposure to the explosion of the Jungle Hunter's Self-Destruct Device. While hospitalized, he was interviewed by Peter Keyes of the OWLF regarding what had happened in the jungle. Dutch subsequently escaped from hospital and disappeared. Several years later, Dutch's older brother John would encounter the Predators while searching for him.

In certain circles, it seems Dutch's story became legendary. Even the Yautja race became aware of Dutch's activities, through records automatically returned to Yautja Prime aboard the deceased Jungle Hunter's ship. The information led some Predators to revere Dutch and his achievements, most notably the City Hunter, who regarded Dutch, and by extension the human race in general, with great respect. Ten years later, Keyes would make mention of Dutch's encounter with the Predator whilst he and his OWLF taskforce attempted to capture another Yautja in the city of Los Angeles. Likewise, Isabelle told the individuals stranded with her on the Game Preserve Planet about Dutch and his team, including the mission to Guatemala and details of the creature that stalked and killed them.

Dutch later reappeared in 2025. Stories of his whereabouts over the years had also been discovered at this point, with Dutch himself telling his stories in tape recordings. Beginning in September 1987, Dutch began keeping a record of his experiences with the alien Yautja species, as a form of insurance should any harm befall him. He was interviewed by Agent Peter Keyes regarding the incident, who was apparently hoping to recover the alien technology. Dutch himself soon became obsessed with learning more about the creature that had massacred his team, and leaving the hospital where he was being treated for radiation sickness, he began the difficult journey back to South America to the site of the encounter, hoping to hear more of the native stories that Anna had first told him.

By 1991, Dutch had been living in country for some time under an assumed identity, masquerading as an author researching the stories of the fabled "demon who makes trophies of man" from locals in the area. While most stories were falsified, Dutch managed to uncover some consistencies within the tales that matched with his own personal encounter, and realized that the aliens had been coming to Earth to hunt for a very long time. By 1992, Dutch had lost a considerable amount of weight due to radiation sickness, and was planning to leave the country as the OWLF previously had when Keyes arrived in person with two other agents. Greeting Dutch "like an old friend" they shared a drink in a local bar and swapped stories about the aliens and their technology. Dutch noted that Keyes still seemed obsessed with recovering Yautja technology, whilst Dutch realized that the biggest problem was what they were on Earth for in the first place.

By 1996, Dutch had set up yet another private military company dedicated to performing search and rescue operations. However, the true objective of the unit was unknown to the men Dutch recruited, whom he described as "haunted soldiers." Whilst the men regarded Dutch as a hero and a legend, Dutch coldly admitted that he was merely using the men as bait in his hunt for alien life, quite like how Dillon had used Dutch's team years earlier. Eventually, the team accepted a mission in the Congo to investigate a remote outpost that had gone silent. When the team reached the outpost and found multiple casualties with their skin removed, Dutch realized that his patience had paid off. The Predator eventually returned to the area and Dutch, who had been waiting and watching, immediately engaged the alien, with his team following suite. Unfortunately, a stray bullet caught a crate of RPG ammunition, which exploded and caused a chain reaction. Dutch survived the resulting explosions, but his team, and the beast, were all killed. Seizing the opportunity, he salvaged what tech he could find and fled the area, allowing himself to be counted amongst the dead.

A year later in 1997, Dutch had made his way to Los Angeles, where he had heard news of a violent gang war amidst the hottest heat wave on record. Realizing that these were perfect conditions for a hunt, he returned to the US for the first time in years and brought his stolen technology with him. Unfortunately, Dutch was too late, as LAPD Detective Mike Harrigan had already fought and killed the City Hunter that had been stalking the streets. Dutch became sloppy in his pursuit of the aliens, and was recaptured by the OWLF. Counting on his past acquaintanceship with Agent Keyes to bail him out, Dutch was forced to barter his stolen Yautja technology with the OWLF after learning that Keyes had been killed by the City Hunter. Dutch brokered a deal with the OWLF to work together to hunt predators and to share their respective knowledge. In his own words, he would "work with them, not for them."

Over a decade later, Dutch and the OWLF had become good at hunting Yautja, and they had retrieved more of their technology than ever before. In 2008, Dutch was tracking a female Yautja in Laos. Losing track of her momentarily, she was able to get the jump on Dutch, ensnaring him with a Netgun which began to tighten around his body and painfully slice into his skin. After twenty years of hunting the Yautja, Dutch was fully prepared to accept his death, and resigned himself to his fate. However, in a strange act of mercy, the female Yautja released Dutch and disappeared into the jungle. Dutch didn't know why she had done this, but one of his theories were that she had possibly recognized him from stories amongst her own people. The netting left Dutch with a permanent grid shaped scar on the right side of his face.

By 2018, the OWLF had been disbanded when their funding was eventually cut, and in its place Project Stargazer was formed, with Dutch noting that the group had recruited operatives from numerous disavowed agencies, including the OWLF. He also came to realize that despite their objective, Stargazer was incredibly inept when it came to hunting aliens, and were also quite corrupt. He was amused at their lack of knowledge toward the Yautja race, and was present in Mexico when they captured the Fugitive Predator alive. Dutch considered this an absolutely terrible and stupid idea, recognizing the aliens to be too dangerous to be captured alive, and that the only prize should be a corpse or the technology that they bring with them. After this course of action resulted in a horrific number of gruesome deaths, Stargazer was almost rendered defunct, but continued to operate through shadowy methods in the jungles of South America, in areas not too different to where Dutch had first encountered the predators over thirty years prior, in the hopes that they could actually capture another predator alive.

By 2025, Dutch had begun working with the newly reinstated OWLF. Despite being 78 years old, Dutch was still fighting, as after an encounter with another Yautja had left him critically wounded, he agreed to an experimental treatment to bond his DNA with that of a Yautja. The procedure was a success, and Dutch returned to service, working with Sean Keyes, the son of the deceased Peter Keyes who had been rescued following the Stargazer incident. Dutch described Sean as a gifted scientist, and the OWLF as being larger than ever. However, Dutch noted that the number of encounters with the alien hunters had increased three fold in recent years, and he feared that the Yautja would see their continued defiance at becoming prey would be seen as a challenge by the aliens, and that they would one day decide to burn the Earth and the human race itself from existence. Until then, Dutch would continue to hunt the hunters and work with anyone who shared similar goals.

Major Dutch Schaefer was a human cyborg officer in the United States Colonial Marine Corps. He was involved in combating a Xenomorph infestation in San Drad, California.

A cyborg created to fight extra-terrestrials. He lost his arm in the 2nd Alien War and has since had it replaced with a smartgun rig. He lives only to avenge himself against the aliens. When all of his team except for Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa were cut off, he and Kurosawa joined forces with two Yautja to destroy the Hive.

In the Legacy of Chris Thorndyke, The Dutch Schafer from The Capcom Arcade Game of Aliens Vs Predator and The One from the Movies plus Hunting Grounds are in fact the same guy and he lost his left arm in a fight with some Predators and got the new arm from many Stark Industries with some outside help especially giving the smartgun rig and even got to meet Linn Kurosawa in a training Program and he was there in the True Final Battle with Linn Kurosawa and the Predator Warrior and The Predator Hunter ironic considering that Dutch had some experience with Predators since 1987.