A former Vietnam veteran and highly skilled Green Beret, Rambo returned from the war as a decorated, but disturbed hero.
It was here that Trautman first met John Rambo, who at that time was a young man who had left both his home and an abusive father.
The known members of Baker Team were John Rambo, Delmore Barry, Joseph "Joey" Danforth, Manuel "Loco" Ortega, Paul Messner, Delbert Krackheur, Giuseppe "Greasy Cunt" Colletta, and Ralph Jorghenson.
A native girl named Agent Co Phuong Bao (Julia Nickson) appears in Rambo: First Blood Part II.
Rambo agrees to Podovsky's conditions, but instead threatens Murdock on the radio that he is "coming to get you", then escapes from captivity into a nearby jungle with Co's help.
Rambo reluctantly agrees to the mission before he is told an agent of the American government will receive him in the jungles of Vietnam.
Michael Reed Ericson (Martin Kove), one of Murdock's associates, is a CIA paramilitary operative and skillful mercenary pilot who can fly fixed and rotary-winged aircraft equally well.
Lifer, another of Murdock's mercenaries, a CIA paramilitary operative (Steve Williams) is a seedy-looking character who, along with Ericson, betrays Rambo on Murdoch's orders.
He is a ruthless commander of the Soviet garrison in which Colonel Trautman is imprisoned, and is also a veteran combat helicopter pilot.
He is also killed in an explosion while trying to destroy Rambo Robert Griggs is the U.S embassy and CIA field operative in Thailand.
Trautman is imprisoned in a Soviet base and coerced for information by Colonel Zaysen (Marc de Jonge) and his henchman Kourov (Randy Raney).
Masoud (Spiros Focás) is a Mujahideen chieftain and village leader, helped Rambo break-in the Soviet fort and free Trautman.
Mousa Ghani (Sasson Gabai) is a Mujahideen fighter who lives in Peshawar, Pakistan, where he transports medical supplies to the Afghan province immediately over the border.
Hamid is a young Afghan orphan whose parents were killed by Soviet troops and aspires to gain revenge by becoming a Mujahideen fighter.
Dr. Michael Burnett (Paul Schulze) is the leader of a church mission attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to a Karen tribe in Burma.
He and the rest of his group (including Sarah) were captured after Tatmadaw overran the tribal village and killed most of its residents there, causing the church pastor to hire mercenaries and Rambo to mount a rescue.
This is shown near the end of the film, when he angrily beats a Tatmadaw soldier to death with a rock to save a mercenary, an act that left him in shock.
An idealist, she managed to persuade a disillusioned Rambo into taking them to Burma and was the only person in the church mission who attempted to start a conversation with him.
Thanks to subsequent efforts by Rambo to throw off Tatmadaw pursuers, and protection rendered by a mercenary called School Boy, she remained free from re-captivity upon the rescue mission's completion.
"School Boy" (Matthew Marsden) is a young British mercenary and ex-SBS sniper who turns out to be more personable than the rest of the group.
His skills with a Barrett M82CQ - 50 BMG sniper rifle were demonstrated when, during the covert assault on the Tatmadaw camp where the captured missionaries were held, he eliminated multiple sentries to keep the escape route open.
Reese (Jake La Botz), nicknamed Tombstone, is one of the fellow mercenaries (and the only American) hired to recover the Christian missionaries abducted by the Tatmadaw.
It is implied that he is former United States Army; his arms are covered in tattoos and he was wearing a camouflaged vest, speaks with a Southern accent and called himself "just some grunt".
It is believed that Reese survived the final gunfight but he is severely injured and lying amidst the wreckage with Lewis.
En-Joo (Tim Kang) is one of the fellow mercenaries hired to recover the Christian missionaries abducted by the Tatmadaw.
These guides, along with Rambo, ended up improvising a disguise as a truck-borne patrol for infiltrating the Tatmadaw base where the missionaries were held and tortured.
During the climactic battle near the end of the film, the Karen rebels participated en masse to help turn the tide in favor of the mercenaries.
Hugo Martinez (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) is the leader of a Mexican cartel and the main antagonist of Rambo: Last Blood.
Victor Martinez (Óscar Jaenada) is the co-leader of a Mexican cartel along with his brother Hugo and the secondary antagonist of Rambo: Last Blood.
Gabriela Beltran (Yvette Monreal) is Rambo's surrogate niece in Mexico who is kidnapped by a drug cartel.