Domingo Chavez

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Ding Chavez in Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear video game

Domingo Chavez, better known as Ding Chavez, is a fictional character created by American author Tom Clancy and appearing in many of his novels and video games. Born in Los Angeles,California, date of birth January 12th 1968. First recruited to be a member of a secret CIA-ran anti-drug operation in Colombia in Clear and Present Danger, while he was still in the U.S. Army. He first met John Clark during this novel and has worked with him since. He is married to John Clark's daughter, Patricia, with whom they have a child, John Conor Chavez. He, along with Clark, rescued a Japanese politician who was former prime minister (and later re-elected) in Debt of Honor. Soon after the events in the Japanese conflict, Domingo worked again with John Clark in implementing Blue Light (recruitment of law enforcement officers as intelligence officers) during Executive Orders. Clark and Chavez lead multiple operations for President Ryan in this episode. He later was recruited into and ultimately became team leader in the multinational counterterrorist organization RAINBOW in Rainbow Six, which defeated several terrorist groups and prevented a bioterrorism plague. It is worthy to note that he later became "Rainbow Six" himself in the later Rainbow Six video games such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas. The position was formerly held by his father-in-law, John Clark.

Ding formerly was part of the 1st Battalion of the 17th Infantry Regiment, with the motto, "Ninja! We own the night." In Clear and Present Danger, he carries ninja throwing stars (as a lucky charm). Before his operation in Colombia he says "We (ninjas) own the night", before he "kills" an "enemy" jungle warfare instructor. The instructor at the mountain camp later turns out to be none other than John Clark.

Domingo is known to posess at least 2 intelligence stars; one was issued for John Clark and Domingo during the Japanese conflict (see Debt of Honor for the conflict; notice of issue in Executive Orders) as well as one for his ongoing operations carried out in Executive Orders (purveyed during Rainbow Six as Golovko reviews his file 'thought to possess no less than 2 Intelligence Stars')