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Eventually inducted into the organisation as an Agent, Walter went through a variety of different training schemes with a variety of branches of the UK military, including the Parachute Regiment, the Royal Marines, and the SAS. He also went through "official" training in the RAF as well as part of his cover, as NCO Aircrew in order to reduce the time spent in training. Assigned to a crew that consisted entirely of specially-trained S13 operatives like himself, his first tour of duty saw him assigned to Malta, using RAF Luqa as a base of operations for various missions in Southern Europe and the Middle East.

Various other assignments followed, including an aircrew positions based at St Mawgan in Cornwall and Kinloss in Scotland, and a "search and rescue" post at RAF Pitreavie Castle; most of his missions still remain heavily classified. After twenty years with the RAF however, Harriman found himself made redundant when Section 13 was shut down by the British government in 1991.

Harriman returned to civilian life, bouncing around various jobs but never really finding a place for himself. When an accident claimed the life of his wife some years later he spiralled into alcoholism and depression, and was eventually declared unfit to raise his youngest child - Katrina - by social services, and so was left living alone while his daughter moved to London with Walter's eldest son, Jason.

Nearly two decades after leaving the military, Harriman was approached by a former associate, who informed him that the secure database to which all of Section 13's files had been transferred had been breached by cyber-terrorists, and that various members of Harriman's former unit had been targetted. In response to this new threat - and rising cases of mutant-related crimes in Britain as well - Harriman was asked to join a new version of Section 13, this time as a subdivision of MI5, to help with operations to counter "mutant terrorism". Too old to actively engage in field work, Walter was appointed the leader of a special task force, codenamed Damocles.

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