Robby Jackson (Tom Clancy)
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Robby Jackson (full name Robert Jefferson Jackson, Rear Admiral (Ret.)) is a fictional character in the Tom Clancy Ryanverse. He met Jack Ryan while both were teaching at the US Naval Academy, and the two became good friends. In the novel Patriot Games Robby helps Ryan eliminate the Irish terrorists that attack Jack's house. He next appears in the Ryanverse as a pilot flying in the 'Black Kngihts' Tomcat fighter squadron aboard the USS Kennedy. This occurs in 'The Hunt for Red October'. While flying his Tomcat, a Forger from the Kiev sends an Attol missile up Jackson's tailpipe, severely wounding his RIO. Jackson makes it back all right, though. From then on, he is in almost every single Jack Ryan novel. In Clear and Present Danger, he is serving a stint in the pentagon. In The Sum of all Fears, he is the CAG aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In Debt of Honor, he is a rear admiral in command of the carrier John Stennis and it's battle group. In Executive Orders, he is the J-3, or Operations officer, for the Joint chiefs. In the novel The Bear and the Dragon Jackson is named Ryan's Vice President. He later succeeds Ryan as President, but is assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
