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[[folder: United States Armed Forces]]

!!David Armstrong

Corporal of the USAF. He's one of the protagonists of the main campaign.

%%* [[spoiler:DistressedDude]]
%%* EnsignNewbie
%%* TheEveryman
* [[spoiler:FourStarBadass]]: What he eventually becomes, if people with the same name in the sequels are in fact the same character.
%%* TheHero
%%* NewMeat
* PlayerCharacter: For the most of the campaign [[spoiler:and the solo mission Ambush.]]
* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: ''ARMA: Armed Assault'', ''ARMA II'' and ''ARMA III'' all feature a General named "David Armstrong", even though in ''ARMA II'' it's a Marine General and ''ARMA III'' takes place in 2035, 50 years after the events of Operation Flashpoint.
* SemperFi: In ''ARMA II'', which takes place in 2009, 24 years after ''Operation Flashpoint'', there's a USMC general by the name of [[spoiler:Armstrong]], though it is not clear if it's the same character as [[spoiler:David Armstrong]], since the latter was an army soldier and not a U.S. Marine.
* [[spoiler:YouAreInCommandNow: Gets a battlefield commission and is promoted to lieutenant halfway to the campaign. By the time of ''ARMA'', he's a general.]]

!!Robert Hammer

%%* EnsignNewbie
%%* TheHero
%%* NewMeat
%%* PlayerCharacter
%%* TankGoodness

!!Sam Nichols

* AcePilot: Subverted. While he's pretty skilled in piloting various transport and attack choppers, he himself admits (and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]]) his inexperience in flying the A-10 Thunderbolt and other fixed-wing aircraft.
* [[spoiler:DistressedDude]]: [[spoiler:Captured by the Soviets when his plane was shot down in Kolgujev. He managed to escape afterwards.]]
%%* TheHero
%%* PlayerCharacter

!!James Gastovski

%%* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous
%%* TheHero
%%* PlayerCharacter
%%* PopCulturedBadass: A fan of ''Film/JamesBond'' movies.
%%* TrueCompanions: With Troska.

!!Papa Bear

%%* MissionControl
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The Red Hammer/Game of the Year Edition solo missions give him a Southern accent for unknown reasons.

!!Caper Blake

%%* BigGood
%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

!!Arnold Berghoff

%%* DrillSergeantNasty
%%* SergeantRock

!!Jack Fuller

%%* SergeantRock
* WhatTheHellPlayer: If the player gives his position away while ambushing the Soviet tank column attacking La Pessagne, he'll chastise him.
-->'''Fuller''': Are you insane, Armstrong?! This is meant to be a covert operations!

!!John Fowley

* CatchPhrase: "Meathead!"
%%* CloudCuckooLander
%%* NewMeat
%%* PluckyComicRelief

!!Ernst Kozlowski

%%* CloudCuckooLander
%%* NewMeat

!!Peter Bormioli

* FatherToHisMen - Bormioli is pretty old compared to the rest of the platoon, and he often chastises his fellow soldiers like a parent would.

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[[folder: Soviet Armed Forces]]

!!Alexei Vasilievich Guba

* AxCrazy: Unless his name is Alexei Guba, no man would be crazy enough to start WorldWarIII. He also spent five years as a gulag commandant during Stalin's era.
%%* BeardOfEvil
%%* BigBad
%%* EvilCounterpart: To Col. Blake.
%%* EvilIsHammy
%%* GeneralRipper
%%* RenegadeRussian
* [[spoiler:WhatHappenedToTheMouse]]: [[spoiler:Not mentioned again after being captured[=/=]killed by Gastovski]].

!!Dimitri Lukin

Ex-Spetsnatz operative. Main protagonist of the Codemasters mission pack Red Hammer.

%%* AntiVillain
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Used to be a Spetsnaz operative. Halfway to the campaign, Guba promotes him back.
%%* TheEveryman
* MyGreatestFailure: [[NoodleIncident A certain incident]] in Afghanistan led to his demotion to a mere grunt.
%%* PlayerCharacter
* OnlySaneMan: Of the Soviet troops stationed in Kolgujev. [[spoiler:He ends up defecting to the Resistance]].
* [[spoiler:TurnedAgainstTheirMasters]]: [[spoiler:After learning that Guba went rogue against the Soviet government, he joined the Resistance along with a few other Soviet troops]].
%%* VillainProtagonist: Subverted.

!!Angelina Malevich

%%* DamselInDistress: Lukin is tasked with [[EscortMission escorting her to Montignac]] in the third mission.
%%* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]

!!Eusev

%%* TheDragon
%%* MyMasterRightOrWrong

!!Yevgeni Rebrov

* DistressedDude

!!Eagle

%%* EvilCounterpart: To Papa Bear, sort of.
%%* MissionControl

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[[folder: Everon Freedom Alliance[=/=]Freedom and Independence Army]]

!!Viktor Troska

Former British SAS operative. Main protagonist of the Resistance mission pack.

%%* BigGood
%%* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]
%%* IcyBlueEyes
%%* TheHero
%%* [[spoiler:Killed Off For Real]]
* MeaningfulName: "Troska" is Czech for [[ShellShockedVeteran "(piece of) debris" or "(human) wreck"]].
%%* PlayerCharacter
* RefusalOfTheCall: At first. But [[DareToBeBadass he soon has a change of heart]], [[DarkestHour once he realizes his fellow citizens need him]].
%%* RebelLeader
%%* RetiredBadass: Ex-SAS.
%%* TrueCompanions: With Gastovski.

!!Gabriel

!!Geronimo

!!Stoyan Yaktovich

%%* CoolShades

!!Slava

* BigDamnHeroes: Rescued Armstrong just before he was about to be captured by the Soviets.
%%* [[spoiler:DroppedABridgeOnHim]]

!!Ian Stoyan

%%* RebelLeader

!!Sergei Gretsky

%%* RebelLeader
%%* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Ex-Spetsnaz.

!!Tasmanian Devil

%%* CloudCuckooLander: His character biography in Bohemia Interactive's wiki describes him as a "weirdo on the radio".
%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
%%* VoiceOfTheResistance

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