Chester Phillips

"General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but are won by men."

- Chester Phillips

Chester Phillips was a colonel of United States Army who recruited Steve Rogers to join Operation: Rebirth.

Captain America: The First Avenger
Colonel Chester Phillips is the officer in comand in the secret project in the Strategic Scientific Reserve aimed to create a series of super soldiers for the US Army. He's the chief of the training camp in which the candidates are given the opportunity to prove their value, and he's, from the very beginning, contrary to Abraham Erskine's choice, the skinny Steve Rogers. During the training, anyway, he's convinced to give a chance to the boy because of an act of pure bravery of his.

When, immediately after the experiment is completed successfully, Erskine is killed by an HYDRA agent, Phillips decides to leave the untrained Rogers behind and to continue the war the old fashion way. When a huge platoon of men is saved by Rogers alone, anyway, Phillips accepts to have him between his ranks, and entrusts him with a special elite commando.

After Arnim Zola is captured, Phillips successfully interrogates him and locates Johann Schmidt's last secret base. While Captain America distracts the enemy, Phillips himself leads the assault to the base, defeating a large number of HYDRA agents. Eventually, he helps Rogers reaching the Red Skull's experimental plane riding Schmidt's special car, ending on the edge of a ravine and seeing the plane flying away with Cap and the Skull aboard.

His current fate is unknown, though is arguable that he died of old age in the seventy years before Cap's awakeneing.

Character traits
Chester Phillips is an old fashioned soldier, a gruff and iron-forged man who firmly believes in the classical war values. He's contrary to Abraham Erskine's choice for his Super Soldier Serum test subject, since he's used to training "real" combatants, and cannot see the value of a small and skinny man such as Rogers.

Phillips is a good strategist and a trained soldier, and, despite his rank, he still takes part in on-field missions, using canonical firearms.

Relationships

 * Steve Rogers - Subordinate.
 * Abraham Erskine - Subordinate.
 * Howard Stark - Subordinate.
 * Peggy Carter - Subordinate.
 * Howling Commandos - Subordinates.
 * Johann Schmidt - Enemy.
 * Arnim Zola - Enemy.
 * Heinz Kruger - Enemy.
 * HYDRA - Enemies.

Behind the scenes
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Appearances/Actors

 * Canon (1 film)
 * Captain America: The First Avenger (First appearance) - Tommy Lee Jones

Trivia

 * While in the movie Phillips opposes Abraham Erskine's choice for the Super Soldier test subject, in the comics he chose Steve Rogers personally, while General Saunders was contrary.