Joe Ramirez
Full Name	Jose Ramirez
D.O.B.	Feburary 21, 1978
D.O.D.	2024
P.O.B.	Los Angeles, California
Organization	United States Army
Division	Ghost Recon
Rank	Master Sergeant
Class	Rifleman
Status	KIA, Nicaragua
Appearances	Ghost Recon 2, GRAW, GRAW 2, Future Soldier

Joe Ramirez is a Ghost Recon team member who fought with Scott Mitchell during the Korean conflicts and the Mexican insurgency. Years later, while leading his own team in Nicaragua, a dirty bomb exploded and killed him and his team.

HistoryEdit

Joe Ramirez is a first-generation Mexican-American born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. Joe never found common ground with his parents, who stuck tightly to the traditions of the life they’d left behind in Mexico. His need to be alone led him to pursue his true passion: radios. A ham radio operator from the time he was 10, Jose enjoyed creating links that spanned the world. The explosion of the Internet in the late ‘90s only increased his desire to learn about faraway people and places. During that time, his connections grew as his skills increased.

After graduating from high school Joe drifted into the hacker community. After a few brushes with the law, a police officer suggested that he go into the Army and settle down before he did something really stupid.

MilitaryEdit

Ramirez joined the US Army as an Airborne Ranger and was assigned to the 75th Rangers. He became a Radio Telephone operator (RTO) and later a Squad Leader of a Ranger infantry squad after completion of Ranger School. He performed two tours in the Pashtun region of Pakistan as part of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) task force to engage enemy fighters, and to kill or capture high value targets in the area. Ramirez would earn a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for his actions.

He was later placed on orders to a desk job at OCS, but was recruited for duty in D Co., 1st BTN, 5th SFG: The Ghosts.

Korean conflictsEdit

Ramirez fought in both Korean conflicts under the command of Captain Scott Mitchell.

Mexican insurgencyEdit

Ramirez was under the command of Captain Mitchell in 2013 during the Mexican Insurgency.

AfghanistanEdit

Ramirez joined Mitchell and the Ghosts in an operation to kill Mullah Zahed.

DeathEdit

Years later, Ramirez is placed as Ghost Lead of Predator team, deployed in Nicaragua to disrupt an arms shipment. Predator team consists of Ramirez, Haynes, McGann, and Richard Allen, who is the team's scout and former member of Scott Mitchell's Ghost team. The team finds and investigates a nuclear warhead, but Ramirez notices too late that a bomb attached to the case has been triggered. His team is killed by the blast, but Ramirez manages to cling to a cliff and survive the initial explosion. However, his arms are burned by radioactive material and he falls to his death.

TriviaEdit

• In GRAW2, Ramirez uses an M14 EBR Rifle, while in GRAW, he uses an MR-C Carbine. His favorite weapon is known to be the M-8 Carbine.
• He is well known as "Scott's sidekick" because he has been with him since his appearance.
• He was killed in the novel Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Combat Ops, but he later appeared alive in a later game. The discrepancy has not been officially addressed.
• He was dead at the age of 46.

AppearancesEdit

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Combat Ops
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier