Henry Blackburn

"You can't just walk away from the threat!"

- Blackburn, on being interrogated during The Great Destroyer

Henry "Black" Blackburn is a playable character and main protanogist (besides Dima) in Battlefield 3. He is a Sergeant (E5 | Sgt) in the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps and is deployed in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan and Tehran, Iran in the war effort against the People's Liberation and Resistance in 2014.

He and Dima are the main protagonist of the story in Battlefield 3's Single Player, and Blackburn is the player-controlled character in the vast majority of the missions in the game, including Semper Fidelis, Operation Swordbreaker, Uprising, Operation Guillotine, Night Shift, Rock and a Hard Place, Kaffarov, and in the very end, The Great Destroyer.

He participates in the war in Iraq & Iran to capture key members of the PLR. In the Operation Guillotine trailer, Blackburn, again acting as the viewpoint of the trailer, is seen assisting Steve with a mortar tube, engaging PLR infantry, and killing a PLR soldier with a knife, visibly taking the insurgent's dog-tags while doing so.

Trivia

 * Blackburn's squad's callsign, from radio chatter throughout the Fault Line and Operation Guillotine trailers, could be Misfit 1-3.
 * Henry was born in Buffalo, New York.
 * It would seem possible that Blackburn is a Designated Marksman, as he sometimes carries a sniper rifle such as a Mk11 Mod 0 in Operation Swordbreaker and a M40A5 in Night Shift.
 * In Fear No Evil where the player plays as Jonathan Miller, Blackburn can be seen for the first and only time in the game apart from the cutscenes.

Генри Блекбёрн