During the Firestorm Crisis, GDI has formed a special taskforce (from whose name the Crisis took its name) in order to deal with the devastating results of the catastrophic ion storm that ravaged the Earth and later with the results of CABAL's rebellion. Under the leadership of General Paul Cortez, an experienced officer was taken off of Project Lazarus and served as Battle Commander for the duration of the conflict. This officer was known to be operating from a GDI spacecraft identical to the Kodiak.