Brant Macklin was the army private who leaked intelligence to the media and became the patient in the Season 8 episode Blowing the Whistle. He is the younger brother of Hayes Macklin, the brother-in-law of Joni Macklin, and the uncle of Evan Macklin. He was portrayed by actor Arlen Escarpeta. The character is loosely based on Bradley Manning, an army intelligence analyst who leaked documents to Wikileaks. The massacre of civilians may be a reference to the Kandahar massacre on March 11, 2012, where army sergeant Robert Bales killed seventeen Muslim civilians and wounded five others.