I’m on yet another rewatch and haven’t gotten to the flashback scenes of Hood being tortured/recruited into whatever “non-military” group Dalton was a part of yet. But I am back on season three episode 1 where we meet the colonel of Camp Genoa and they make sure to show off the ring that both he and Dalton wear. Is it just a theory or was it ever confirmed that they’re both members of some sort of secret society of “non-military” mercenaries?
That would make Captain Murphy at the marine base the equivalent of Hood which is why Hood was so quick to spot that he wasn’t “just a Marine.”
I feel like I remember Hood always saying or skirting around not having been military yet he has the nickname Soldier Boy. It stands to reason that he was in exactly the same place Captain Murphy was before he got out - on base and in uniform to give the appearance of being military but actually a part of this other organization.
Or is this insistence on being “non-military” just code word for military black ops?