If you are one of those who played the original Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six in 1998, would you agree that the game was tough cookie to crack? I spent countless hours planning and re-planning, changing team compositions, and of course many deaths at the hands of the Phoenix Group, and eco-terrorist organisation. But it was a fantastic game even if it frustrated me many times as I proceeded through the story that it was one the top rated games in that year.
The Rainbow Six video game franchise is still alive and running, longer the Call of Duty and Battlefield video game series.
But didn’t you know that the guy in the original Rainbow Six cover worked for Heckler & Koch? More specifically, he was the VP for Sale and Training of one the most well known and innovative companies in the firearms business.
I learned about this as the information about cover model, John T. Meyer Jr., the former H&K VP, is being shared on Facebook and now being picked up by blogs and news sites. Zim EDC Military Hobby, a Facebook Page dedicated to Military and Law Enforcement images and cosplay:
Meyer himself acknowledged that he was indeed the guy in the photo as he commented on the Facebook post, mentioning that H&K also sent two instructors for motion capture to use in the game.
Reading Meyer’s Facebook page, after leaving Heckler & Koch, Meyer, he established Team One Network (T-1) in 2003 and is a training group for military and law enforcement. Its team is comprised of nationally and internationally recognised subject matter experts and has trained thousands of students over the years.
As for Rainbow Six, it remains a strong video game franchise, with Rainbow Six Siege having 30 million online players worldwide ever since it was released in 2015.