The Director of Field Operations is the person in charge of field agents at a particular CTU Domestic Unit. The position is below Special Agent in Charge and either equal to or higher than Chief of Staff. The Director of Field Operations has their own office.
CTU Los Angeles
The following people have held the position of Director of Field Operations at CTU Los Angeles:
Christopher Henderson served as the Director of Field Operations one year before the events that took place in Day 1. When Jack Bauer busted Henderson for taking bribes, Henderson was fired, but he wasn't officially charged due to lack of evidence.
After the events of Day 2, Jack Bauer was reinstated to CTU on a regular basis and earned the position as Director of Field Operations. When Erin Driscoll took command of the office, she fired Jack due to his former heroin addiction. He was later reinstated when Ronnie Lobell was killed, and was also given the position by President Wayne Palmer in Day 6.
When Jack Bauer was fired from the position, Erin Driscoll hired Ronnie to take over. Ronnie held the position until the second hour of Day 4, when Kalil Hasan shot and killed him.
After the death of Ronnie Lobell and presumed death of Jack Bauer, Curtis Manning went from Chief of Staff to the Director of Field Operations. He held the position throughout Day 5 and through the first few hours of Day 6. After President Palmer put Jack in charge of the investigation on Abu Fayed, Curtis lost the position and he was eventually killed by Jack, after he took Hamri Al-Assad hostage.
Mike Doyle arrived from Fort Bragg to replace Curtis Manning. He had a history working at CTU Denver with Milo Pressman. His first assignment at CTU Los Angeles involved assaulting the Russian Consulate and apprehending Anatoly Markov.
