Preston Garvey

"Preston Garvey is the top shot of the so-called Commonwealth Minuteman, a organization made of settlers and wastelanders who want freedom against the so-called Institute in the Commonwealth."

-Su Ji-Hoon, The Battle for the Commonwealth

Preston Garvey is the leader, and later second-in-command of the Commonwealth Minutemen, a volunteer defense militia operating in the Commonwealth in 2287.

Preston Garvey originally enrolled with the Minutemen under Colonel Hollis at the age of seventeen.undefinedAn avid believer in the espoused justice of the Minutemen cause, Preston joined the Minutemen under the direct command of Hollis himself. Things began to change for the worse when settlements under the protection of the Minutemen grew complacent. Freed from the greater concerns of the erstwhile dangers of the Commonwealth, settlements increasingly neglected their obligations to the collective in favor of petty self-interests.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he is one of the people alongside the Sole Survivor who commanded the troops against the Institute, a faction who supported the Coalition of the Red Star.