Bob Powers served his country first as an Army officer and would later join ONI as a Special Agent in New England. After serving in Iceland, Bob volunteered for an assignment in Vietnam and would find himself investigating "fragging" homicides and other important investigations in a war zone. Bob was a proven agent when he was the lead agent on the "Intrepid 4" espionage investigation in Japan. Late in his career he would be apart of a great leadership team that served in a critical moment in the history of what would become NCIS.