Capt. Jimmy Wilder

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Capt. Jimmy Wilder

Background

Jimmy "Raven" Wilder is a captain and pilot in the United States Marine Corps stationed at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.

During the events of Independence Day (1996) played by Harry Connick, Jr.

Capt. Steven Hiller arrives at base and sees a letter from NASA and asks Wilder to open and read it, which turns out to be a rejection letter. An engagement ring falls out of Hiller's locker and Wilder tells Hiller, he will never get accepted into NASA if he marries Jasmine Dubrow, who is a stripper. Later, Captain Watson briefs his pilots on their planned counter-attack on the alien spaceships. Hiller and the rest of the Black Knights squadron head towards the spaceship hovering over Los Angeles. The Black Knights attack, but find out the spaceships have shields and are then attacked by smaller spaceships that also have shields and one of the Pilots is killed when his jet rams into the spaceship. The Black Knights are systematically picked off one by one, including Wilder.