Juan Rico

Juan "Johnnie" or "Johnny" Rico is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 science-fiction novel Starship Troopers. He also appears in the films Starship Troopers (1997) and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008), and in the television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. In Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Rico is the son of a wealthy Filipino family who joins the Terran Mobile Infantry almost on impulse and over his parents' objections. He is sent to Camp Arthur Currie on the Canadian prairie for basic training and graduates as one of 187 remaining recruits, from an original class of over 2000 enlistees. He is assigned as a private in "Willie's Wildcats" (Company K, Third Regiment, First Mobile Infantry Division), aboard...