Lieutenant General Hershel Von Shepherd III, better known simply as General Shepherd, was a corrupt U.S. Army officer in charge of Task Force 141 and the founding leader of his own elite army, Shadow Company, who after losing his 30,000 Marines to Vladimir Makarov, secretly sought to restore his country's reputation as the world's greatest military force and become recognized as a war hero with one good lie and a river of blood, while betraying and killing anybody who stood in his way. (OG story and chemistry)