Hatch got his start riding in an ambulance, on the mean streets of Denver, Colorado. After several years he moved on to bigger and better things, traveling the world with Kellogg Brown & Root, which later became KBR. He went from "third world suck" to "third world dust trap" helping people with all types of medical needs. through these experiences, he saw firsthand how corporate greed and government intrusion affected the lives of the common-man. Rarely in a good way.
It was while deployed in a region of Africa that he was approached with a new job offer. The pay was twice as high, salaried, and the tours were less random, the company Carbo Medical Associates, a subsidiary of Arbco, itself a subsidiary of Extensive Enterprises. Hatch took the job with the blessing of his wife. He quickly learned that he had in fact been recruited into Cobra. He graduated Medi-Viper training top of his class and earned the nickname "Hawkeye" after Alan Alda's character on MASH.
Hatch was stateside when THEY destroyed the world. He roams the Rockies with his wife trying to meet up with a deep-cover Cobra Medical Research Base known as the Snake's Den.