Captain H. M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz) poses as a mentally ill man, being an expert pilot of war planes and helicopters, who carried out missions in Vietnam and often argues with his partner Baracus. . He is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, but during missions his companions usually help him escape. Normally he is the one who rescues the team when it falls into an ambush, it helps him a lot not to be searched and captured by the army, on several occasions he even proves to be the sanest of the unit and has the greatest capacity for sacrifice in situations extreme. He usually wears a baseball cap, a brown leather bomber jacket with a tiger head on the back, and Converse sneakers.