Camp H.A.M.M.E.R.

Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. is a training camp in the fictional Marvel Comics universe, Marvel Universe, the Dark Reign equivalent to its predecessor Camp Hammond which aimed to train a superhero team for every state of the United States as part of the Fifty State Initiative. The camp, located in New Mexico, became the main setting for the Avengers: The Initiative comic book series.

History

Due to the events of the Secret Invasion and the subsequent Dark Reign, the agency in control of the Initiative, S.H.I.E.L.D., is replaced by H.A.M.M.E.R. and its supervillain director Norman Osborn cites the invasion, an incident with the Thor clone Ragnarok, and the revelation to the MVP cloning experiments to the media as justification to shut down Camp Hammond, opening a new camp with a skewed vision of the camp's function. The Camp itself is a repurposed Hulkbuster base in New Mexico. Like Camp Hammond, the camp is primarily used to train drafted super powered young people in the United States who have to be registered with the Federal government. However, now there are villains registering as heroes and while recruits are put through basic training they are also being taught specialized classes like "How to Fake Being Champions while Fleecing the Citizens you're Supposed to Protect".^[1] It is later determined that the villain aspect of the program is having little success.^[2]

Points of interest

Among the locations in Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. are:

Staff

The main staff at Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. consisted of Norman Osborn as Chief Administrator, with Taskmaster as Camp Director and Senior Instructor, and The Hood as Chief Operating Officer. Other guest instructors and staff included H.A.M.M.E.R. agents, and Ares and Ms. Marvel (Moonstone) as part of the Dark Avengers.^[4] Trauma, Baron Von Blitzschlag and Physique also retained the positions they had at Camp Hammond under Osborn's administration.^[5]

Students

Most of the recruits shown to be part of Norman Osborn's Initiative were villains pretending to be heroes. Notable graduates shown to be training at the camp include:

• Ironclad^[4] - became part of North Carolina's initiative team^[3]
• Vapor^[4] - became part of North Carolina's initiative team^[3]
• Vector^[4] - became part of North Carolina's initiative team^[3]
• X-Ray^[4] - became part of North Carolina's initiative team^[3]
• Constrictor
• Diamondback - became part of Delaware's initiative team^[3]
• Percy Grimes^[4]
• Barton Grimes^[4]
• Griffin^[4]
• Living Laser^[4]
• Mandrill^[3]
• Scorcher^[4]
• Penance^[4]
• Razor Fist^[4]

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