Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)

Chester Phillips
Name	Chester Phillips
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	U.S. Army, SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Allied Forces
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Irises: Brown
Hair	Grey-haired
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-199999
Place of Birth	United States of America
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Colonel in the U.S. Army
Education	Military
Base of Operations	America
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
First	Captain America: First Vengeance (Vol. 2) #3 (June, 2011)
First	Captain America: First Vengeance (Vol. 2) #3 (June, 2011)

 The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an Allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history. But every army starts with one man. 

—Col. Chester Phillips

History

Chester Phillips was a full bird Colonel of the Unites States Army who was the officer in command in the secret military project, Operation: Rebirth. This project was overseen by the Strategic Scientific Reserve and aimed to create a series of "super soldiers" for the U.S. Army to combat the Nazis during World War II.

He was the head of the training camp where the potential candidates were given the opportunity to show their skills. He was against Dr. Esrkine's decision to bring Steven Rogers to the training camp believing him to be too skinny and weak to be a proper candidate, but later agreed to give Rogers the candidate spot.

Colonel Phillips was present when the experiment was successful and witnessed the murder of Dr. Erskine by a HYDRA spy. Colonel Phillips was later given an assignment from the President of the United States to take the SSR to Europe to take the fight to HYDRA. He took Agent Carter and Howard Stark along as part of his unit, but declined to take the newly transformed but untrained Steven Rogers.

The next time Colonel Phillips met Captain Rogers was when the Colonel was signing letters informing family members of dead soldiers and informed Captain Rogers that his friend Sergeant James Barnes was one of over 200 allied soldiers held prisoner by HYDRA but refused to send a rescue party. Rogers went to save the POWs anyway and Colonel Phillips finally accepted Rogers into his ranks and allowed Rogers to form an elite unit of men to combat HYDRA.

After Rogers captured Arnim Zola, Colonel Phillips successfully interrogated him and located Johann Schmidt's last secret base. He agreed to Rogers' plan to infiltrate the HYDRA base and led the assault going into the base after Rogers. He drove Schmidt's car taking Rogers along to get to Schmidt's high-tech plane.

When the war ended, Colonel Phillips is presumed to have retired from military service and to have lived the rest of his days in retirement.

Attributes

Abilities

Advanced military training, leadership, and tactician

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Various weapons

Notes

• Tommy Lee Jones portrays Col. Phillips in the movie Captain America: The First Avenger.

See Also

• 4 appearance(s) of Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)
• 2 mention(s) of Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)
• 15 image(s) of Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)
• 2 quotation(s) by or about Chester Phillips (Earth-199999)