Kenneth Thrasher (Nickname: Sunshine) is the default player (Officer (SWAT3)) in SWAT 3 standard missions selection (though others can be chosen via arrows). His Serial# is 108995. He is the primary Element Leader under SGT. Muncie (listed as just Thrasher) in Career mode.
Background[]
Officer Thrasher was born and raised in Los Angeles and is a graduate of UCLA with a BS in Criminology. A member of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1980, Officer Thrasher is a certified submachine gun instructor, a rappel master, and a primary instructor in vehicle assaults and close quarter control. Officer Thrasher is the recipient numerous citations including the Police Star, the Police Medal and the Police Commission Unit Citation.
He is in charge of Aaron Bronsky (Hardcore), Albert Garcia (Muffin), James Horton (Princess), Grant Peterson (Pokey), Grant Peterson (Apollo), Dominick Sol (Gramps), Byron Towne (Hoops), and Louis Wallace (Payback).
Bronksy and Garcia are his standard Red Team and Horton and Lerner are his standard blue team.
Behind the scenes[]
While Thrasher is the default character in the standard Missions mode (he is second Element Leader on Career mode if Muncie is chosen as sergeant), Harry Smith is the default custom character included with the custom Mission mode and Multi-Player (LAN) mode. Dick Koch appears as part of the Multi-Player (Internet) mode.
Like the rest of the mission player Element Leaders they do not include the years in SWAT information, personality or race information.
There is possibly a nod to Thrasher in the the manual of SWAT 4 appears to list the sample character for Boss (SWAT4) as Officer Thrasher. However Boss’ nickname and years of service are taken from Cyrus Kange (The Boss) from the SWAT 3 manuals and strategy guide. However the image is blurry, and could be something else.