Editing Walter Simmons

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:''Walter Simmons is a [[human]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]]. He is known as "The Old Man" to those within [[Sector Seven]].''

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In the late 1960s, '''Walter Simmons''' is a man of great power and significance, the secret mover and shaker behind [[Sector Seven]]. It's said he knows where most of the skeletons are buried, and how they became skeletons in the first place. So fearsome is he, that even the hardened military types are a little bit afraid of him, despite the fact he's never served in the military himself.

He is the father of [[Felix Simmons]] and a daughter.


==Fiction==
=== Ghosts of Yesterday novel ===
During a briefing on [[Vietnam]], Simmons famously called the [[President of the United States|President]] a "barely literate peasant". In the buildup to the ''[[Ghost 1]]'' launch, and the relocation of the [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]] from the [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base]], Simmons had a squad of army rangers under [[Staff Sergeant Martin]] assigned to the base for "training exercises", so that they would be around should their services be required.

When ''Ghost 1'' was lost, [[Thomas Kinnear|Colonel Kinnear]] decided not to immediately inform his superior, as there was really nothing substantial to report. Later, when Simmons did hear, he was upset, but not as badly as Kinnear had feared. He also assigned Kinnear to oversee the moving of the Ice Man from the [[Arctic]] base to [[Hoover Dam|a more secure facility]] holding [[AllSpark (Movie)|another alien device]]. They had received some intelligence that the [[Soviet Union|Soviets]] might know something about the Ice Man, and Simmons wanted Kinnear to ensure everything went smoothly.

Everything didn't go smoothly, and Simmons received the news that the convoy carrying the Ice Man had gone missing. He rang [[Philip Nolan]], who'd been left in charge of the Arctic base and instructed him to put a team together to go and find Kinnear. Nolan put up a token protest as ''Ghost 1'' was still missing, but Simmons asserted that the convoy was more important and ordered him to go. Nolan's mission resulted in the Ice Man successfully reaching Nevada. {{storylink|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

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