Edward Newgate

Colonel Edward Newgate (known affectionately by his men as "Whitebeard" due to his large, white beard and mustache) was the second director of V.W.A.T. following the death of General Harold Burman. Little is known of his actual time with the organization, though it can be presumed he was an honorable man who worked to repair the organization after the damage to its forces and reputation following Burman's betrayal. It was under his leadership that death row inmates were first used as expendable soldiers to fight the supernatural. He retired in 1998 to allow Major James Steeler to take control. He died of natural causes two years later at the turn of the century.