Hank Leavitt

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Hank Leavitt was a soldier in the American military, notable for being among the first soldiers to become Active Sentinels. Initially, he was a Corporal, but worked his way up to Lieutenant. Leavitt was among those chosen to form Alpha Team - the first team of Sentinels, and participated in its first mission (and thus the maiden voyage of the Sentinel Program) to journey to Fort Anchorage in Alaska to retrieve the Atom Bomb and J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Chimera.

The mission, however, fell apart and saw the deaths of most of the team, and the loss of the bomb. Leavitt and the survivors of the mission - himself, Sergeant Benjamin Warner and Sergeant Joseph Evan Capelli, the team's second-in-command, were retrieved by a submarine sent by SRPA to investigate the detonation of the bomb (done so by the team's leader; Lieutenant Murphy, to destroy the local Chimeran Battleship in the area, and by extension the ice-bridge the Chimera had formed which, if left intact, could have led to an early invasion of an un-prepared United States, but at the cost of Murphy's life). In the end, SRPA Command ruled that the mission was a complete disaster, but more than anything was a failure of leadership on the part of Murphy and Capelli, who basically botched the mission by putting their own safety ahead of the mission. Leavitt, however, ended up impressing his superiors as, at a critical moment in the mission, Leavitt came up with the idea to ensure the bomb could be salvaged, though doing so would sacrifice themselves in the process.

Having proved he put the sake of the mission first, Leavitt ended up being promoted and made an officer; with the rank of Lieutenant, and, on August 1951, was given command of his own team - Echo Team (Leavitt being it's original leader).

Leavitt would lead the team until his death in December of 1952. He was killed in North Carolina, after trying to destroy a Stalker production factory. After the mission, Nathan Hale was promoted to Echo Team's leader.