Joe Robertson

A former long-range patrol scout who grew up in Iowa, saw some Weird Shit in Vietnam shortly after the Tet Offensive, and was then recruited by SANDMAN. He stayed in-country until early 1970 and then rotated back home, stayed on reserve with SANDMAN domestic ops as a surveillance/black-bag type, mostly gigging out of Chicago. He's undergone Renshaw training and learned some Project martial arts but he doesn't seem to have any preternatural abilities … although the guys in his platoon did think he was inordinately lucky. By his account, he:

had quite a few close shaves in-country, including the time I saw the Enemy for the first time; an ugallu had us stuck in a swamp trying to drown or electrocute us out, but I found a VC tunnel that let us survivors get out of the fire zone so they could napalm the Leo from the air.

Joe was assigned to work with Roger while at Point One in Mississippi during Operation ALLOCHTHON. They got along well enough for Roger to give Joe a nickname: “Cornfed.” Later, URIEL discovered Joe was an unwitting dupe of the Continuity Working Group, designated to watch Roger while in the field. Later, Joe — controlled by a kulullû — shot Morris, badly wounding (but not killing) him. He is now undergoing memetic containment and psych evaluation at Huntsville.