Hector Williams

Sergeant First Class Hector Williams (United States Army, callsign: "Hammerhead") was a fictional character on the CBS television series "The Unit". He was portrayed by Canadian actor Demore Barnes.

Hector was a Unit operator assigned to Alpha Team of the 1st Special Actions Group (official cover as the "303rd Logistical Studies Group"), and was an experienced marksman, frequently serving as a sharpshooter for the team. According to his uniform, he was both Special Forces and Ranger qualified. Williams was likely the most diverse member of Alpha Team. He served as one of the team's medics, and was possibly an SF medical sergeant prior to joining the Unit, and was also cross trained in breaching demolitions. He, along with Charles Grey, also served as an instructor in closed quarters battle for a SWAT unit, and designed the deliberate assault plan for the Braydon School Takedown in the "In Loco Parentis" episode. He was fluent in Arabic and Spanish, as well as a Papuan tribal dialect, and could speak German, Portuguese and a Pashto/Urdu dialect. Hector's cover was that of a "logistics clerk".

In Season 1, Hector was engaged to the daughter of a retired paratrooper who looked upon Hector with disdain due to his career in "logistics." The paratrooper was familiar with Colonel Tom Ryan, and asked for Hector to be transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division. Ryan let the father know subtly that Hector was not in logistics but actually a counter-terrorist. The father's attitude toward Hector changed, which Hector's fiancée noticed. He came clean to her that he was in counter-terrorism, and she, not seeing job security out of the Army in his future, ended the relationship.

In Season 3, Hector met a woman named Annie at a local bar. A waitress and former US Army medic who happens to know Tiffany. They went on a date and then shortly thereafter (with some encouragement from the other Unity woman) met up at a local motel in a nearby town, while there he discovered Tiffy and Colonel Ryan having an affair.

During the Season 3 episode "Five Brothers," Hector was fatally injured when he was hit in the neck with a bullet fired by a sniper as the team made its escape from Hezbollah during the rescue mission in Beirut; the sniper's bullet ricocheted from a bone in Hectors neck into his chest whilst caring for injured team-mate Charles Grey. The irony of this is that during the episode, and also during the episode's promotional spots, the team member Charles, Hector's roommate, is speculated as being killed, but survives the ordeal due to Williams' medicinal efforts.

The cover for his death was that he was transporting documents across an airfield in Turkey when unexploded ordnance blew up, rolling his jeep and killing him instantly. This scenario is called "Play 16."

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At the time of his death, Hector's patches, tabs, badges, awards and decorations were as follows:

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*U.S. Army Special Forces Command
*24th Infantry Division
*Special Forces Tab
*Ranger Tab
*18th Infantry Regiment
*Combat Infantryman Badge
*Air Assault Badge
*Master Parachutist Badge
*Expert Weapons Qualification Badge
* Four service stripes (indicating between 12 and 14 years of service)

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Per order of precedence:
*Silver Star
*Bronze Star
*Purple Heart
*Army Commendation Medal
*Army Achievement Medal
*Army Good Conduct Medal (with silver clasp with two loops, indicting seven awards)
*National Defense Service Medal (with one bronze service star)
*Southwest Asia Service Medal (with two bronze service stars)
*Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
*Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
*Overseas Service Ribbon (with award numeral "4", indicating five tours)