Jack Bartlett

"I hate not being able to move in three dimensions. Cramps my style."

- Jack Bartlett, Ace Combat 5 (mission 25, "Heartbreak One")

Bartlett is the leader of the 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Sand Island Detachment. Though he would never show it, Bartlett would give his life for his wingmen.

History
Bartlett, although a very talented pilot, has had a notorious history of being unable to comply with orders given, opting instead to follow his conscience. Bartlett cares for all the trainees under his command (referring to them as 'nuggets'), and secretly admires Kei Nagase's skill when she defends herself after being attacked before the start of the war.

He also seem to notice Blaze's skill, so he gave Blaze his old nickname "Kid". Thus, Blaze became his favorite pupil.

"Heartbreak One" came by his callsign after losing love interest Major Nastasya Vasilievna Obertas sometime before Operation Batteaxe during the 1995 Belkan War. Years later, during the Circum-Pacific War (2010), she and Barlett are reunited and work together to free Prime Minister Seryozha Viktrovich Nikanor from prison (Bartlett's relationship with Major Nastasya Vasilievna Obertas drawing suspicion from his superiors during the latter conflict). In Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, Bartlett appeared over Area B7R in mission 10 "Mayhem" in an F-14D with codename "HRTBRKONE".

After being shot down during the Belkan War near Area B7R by Ashley Bernitz, he met the pilot later known as Peter N. Beagle and both become great friends. His last recorded sortie was when he destroyed one of the two SOLG controls in Sudentor, Osea. Bartlett survived the final mission in Sudentor. At the end of the war it's unknown what happened to him. Some say he stayed training pilots in Osea or went back with Natashya to Yuktobania. Bartlett was never promoted beyond Captain in the 15 years since the end of the Belkan conflict due to his repeated insubordination, as he stated himself: "I don't know why they even bother reprimanding me anymore. I know I'm gonna be stuck at captain forever."

But he was wrong he thought he wasn't going to be stuck as captain forever because later he was shot down by a SAM from a boat in the second mission of the war and arrested by Orson Perrault. later he escaped from prison and has aided by the Razgriz and used a propellor engine plane to takeoff from the nearest airport and landed in the aircraft carrier Kestrel. Then he participated in