Aka Green Lantern, a former military test pilot, he is now the protector of Sector 2814 . He is also a founding member of the Justice League. His father was Catholic, while his mother was Jewish. Traumatized by watching his father, a pilot, die in a plane crash. Refusing to bow down to fear, he followed in his father's footsteps and became a military test pilot. Years later, Hal had been kicked out of the military for assaulting an officer, and was reduced to an engineer giving planes tune-ups.