Tim Noonan
Special Agent Tim Noonan is a character that appears in Rainbow Six
Biography
Tim Noonan is a former football player who played defensive for Stanford University before joining the FBI to become a Special Agent. He became an expert in tactical electronics and surveillance and was assigned as technical backup for the Hostage Rescue Team. This expertise got him transferred to the newly formed Rainbow counter-terrorism unit in 1999. He was placed on Team 2 under Domingo Chavez.
Shortly after Rainbow's formation, a hostage situation erupted at a commercial bank in Bern, Switzerland. Noonan was among the members of Team 2 that had been dispatched to handle the situation. After Chavez met with Marius Roebling of the Bern Police, Team 2 geared up and arrived at the bank. Disguised as a member of the Swiss Police alongside his teammates, Noonan set up his computer pulled up the building's floor plans.
After Hans Richter identified Ernst Model and Erwin Guttenach as two of the terrorists, Noonan carefully made his way around the outside of the building and planted several video surveillance cameras and audio devices. Roebling and Paul Bellow had the Swiss Police give a press conference at this time in order to distract the terrorists during Noonan's efforts. The cameras allowed Noonan to determine the location of each terrorist though the ambient noise of the area made it impossible to hear what they were saying. Chavez, Eddie Price, and Noonan then reviewed the floorplans and determined that they could only breach the building from the front and rear entrance. Once Chavez signaled for the raid to begin, Noonan provided surveillance overwatch. Following the mission's success, Noonan uploaded pictures of the site to the Rainbow communication room to be reviewed by John Clark and Peter Covington.
Trivia
- As a former football player, Noonan was one of the largest Rainbow Operators at the time, standing at six feet tall and weighing two-hundred pounds.
- Despite his size, Noonan admits that he is not nearly as tough as the other members of his team.