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10-15-2009, 08:29 PM
Tanksmasher
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You really put some thought into fleshing out the timeline. Everything fits neatly, although there's still the question of his being in Vietnam as late as 1975: in GI Joe #10, one of the memories that appears on the Brainwave Scanner vid-screen is of him riding in the last US helicopter out of Saigon (the iconic photo of the last Huey flying from the roof of the US Embassy was taken on April 30, 1975).
That's problematic for a few reasons. If we go by the established fact that he was in Vietnam as early as 1967 (and he was in Vietnam at least as early as the Tet Offensive of 1968, as indicated by his shared history with the Baroness), then he would have far exceeded the number of tours in Vietnam alloted for a serviceman if he was still operating in Southeast Asia in 1975.
Of course, the easiest explanation is to just disregard the Brainwave Scanner memory as being mis-labeled as the last Huey out of Saigon (we never get confirmation if it actually is the last helicopter out of Saigon... we only have Dr. Venom's supposition that that is what the memory is).
Man, I forgot about issue 10. That's a great point. What exactly was the max number of tours that one could serve? I know many men had 3 tours of duty, and the length of a tour can be misleading. When some men reupped for another 6 months in Nam, that was considered a 2nd tour. So not all tours were a year long. And there was also a redeployment policy of 25 months. So men who stayed in the Army couldn't be sent back to Nam for 25 months after finishing a tour, unless they volunteered, which some did.
Medal of Honor recipient Bob Howard spent 5 tours in Nam, mostly in SOG, according to Plaster's book.
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