- "It's them...They've dragged us all into this--the Wardog ghosts, the Ghosts of Razgriz."
- ― Hamilton
Major Allen C. Hamilton (アレンC.ハミルトン Aren C. Hamiruton) was the Adjutant Base Commander of the Sand Island Air Force Base, as well as a member of the 596th Fighter Squadron. He was typically cool in demeanor, and rarely associated with the airmen stationed at the base.
After he was convinced that the members of Wardog Squadron were traitors, his attitude towards them changed completely. He participated in the Battle of Sudentor, paying special attention to shooting down the "Ghosts of Razgriz", even going so far as to chase them inside the tunnel between North and South Belka. This chase ultimately led to his death.
History
Hamilton was once assigned to the 8492nd Squadron, a sleeper Grey Men unit within the OADF. At some point, he became the Adjutant Base Commander of Sand Island AFB.
In September 2010, Hamilton retrieved Albert Genette's camera and photographs after they were confiscated by base security, and was the first to inform Genette of Yuktobania's declaration of war against Osea. The next day, he "pulled a few strings" and assigned Genette to the Osean press corps.
A few weeks later, he warned Genette against taking video of Base Commander Colonel Orson Perrault following the detonation of a bomb aboard the Arkbird, due to Perrault's sour mood.
After Wardog returned to Sand Island following the ambush at Vladimir, Hamilton convinced Colonel Perrault that Wardog's members were traitors, himself likely convinced by his former squadmates from the 8492nd Squadron. Kei Nagase, upon learning of his allegiance, knocked Hamilton out and escaped before he could apprehend her and Blaze. All of Wardog, alongside Pops, Genette, and Kirk, managed to escape Sand Island in Hawk training jets. Hamilton, having recovered, sent out a bulletin to all Osean aircraft ordering them to shoot down Wardog on sight. The 8492nd Squadron encountered them, and Hamilton gave them the order to shoot them down. Following the 8492nd's failure to track Wardog through the volcanic Solo Islands, Captain Marcus Snow, arriving from the OFS Kestrel, questioned the shoot-down order, and Hamilton reaffirmed it. Snow shot down all of the pilots, "confirming" them as KIA.
On December 30, Hamilton, flying a MiG-1.44, joined the militant Osean forces at Sudentor in a battle for the last Belkan tactical nuclear weapon. Upon discovering the Razgriz Squadron was in the airspace, he requested assistance to concentrate fire on them. When Razgriz entered the tunnel facility to destroy the Strategic Orbital Linear Gun's control cores, he followed and continued to fire upon them. He was hit by a ricocheting aircraft that had followed Jack Bartlett in from the other side, killing him instantly.
Trivia
- Hamilton's death is a possible reference to the defeat of Darth Vader in the first Star Wars film, in which Vader's ship was struck by a ricocheting TIE Fighter while flying through the narrow Death Star trench.
- A common misconception is that Hamilton is of Belkan descent. However, no evidence, from either official media or Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War itself, is available to support this theory. In fact, certain lines during ACES indicate that he was of Osean nationality and quite patriotic towards the country, as were most Osean warmongers in that battle.
- During his introduction in ACES, Hamilton says, "We're going to put an end to all wars once and for all!" In a way, this could show he had similar ideals to those of A World With No Boundaries, who aimed for world peace through the removal of artificial country borders.