About

Meryl Silverburgh was the commanding officer of Rat Patrol Team 01 of the CID. Prior to her inauguration as commander, Meryl was a well-known career soldier due to her involvement in the Shadow Moses Incident, where she worked alongside legendary mercenary Solid Snake. She was thought to be the niece of former FOXHOUND commander Roy Campbell but was later discovered to actually be his daughter.

According to official records, Meryl Silverburgh was the niece of Roy Campbell. Unknown to Meryl, she was actually Campbell's daughter resulting from an affair he had pursued with his younger brother's wife. Her adoptive father Matt Campbell was killed in action during the Gulf War when she was young.

Raised in a house of military traditions, Meryl trained herself throughout her childhood in the arts of soldiery. She admired the FOXHOUND unit, viewing the days when her "uncle" and Solid Snake were members in the unit’s heyday, and wore a paint tattoo of the unit's 1990s logo on her left shoulder. She joined the Army after graduating high school, receiving extensive psychotherapy and some limited gene therapy to prevent any attraction to the opposite sex.