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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-11-2010, 09:27 PM
zuludelta
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A while back, I think Zulu made the argument that Dusty was probably Special Forces. Is there any evidence for that other than his language training? Any opinions on Dusty as SF?
Besides the language training, no I don't think there's any real evidence from the filecards or the comics you can cite that Dusty's SF-qualified. And even the language training can partially be explained away as being non-military related: As I think I posted in this thread several weeks back, the Tadur surname (which is just Hasbro toy designer Ron Rudat's surname spelled backwards) is coincidentally a common surname in India, particularly in Andhra Pradesh state. So if one were determined to give a non-SF/military attribution for at least some of his language skills, one could claim it as being part of his ethnic heritage (maybe his dad or grandfather is an immigrant from India... in 2000, almost 1% of Las Vegas/Clark county's population claimed some East Indian ancestry, which is on the high side for an area outside of California, New York, or Illinois). Yeah, I know they primarily speak Telugu and Urdu in Andhra Pradesh but hey, you can just add those two languages to the list of the ones he's fluent in
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As far as I can figure, it's difficult to figure out which Specific Special Forces Groups the other SF qualified Joes would belong to. Any other thoughts or observations? Zulu?
I think you've covered them all (in terms of the Joes who have it explicitly spelled out in their filecards that they are SF) except for Drop Zone (from Sky Patrol) and of course, Duke. I always figured that Drop Zone is from B Company (Military Free Fall School) of the 1st Special Warfare Training Group's 2nd Battalion. As for Duke, I think it only makes sense that he'd be from the 1st SFG since its traditional area of responsibility is the Asia-Pacific region: Duke's 1983 filecard states that he speaks "Han Chinese" (which is an ethnic group and not a language, BTW, Hama probably meant to write "Mandarin" which is the language most Han Chinese speak) and a number of unspecified Southeast Asian languages. Hama wrote in Duke's prototype filecard that Duke's fluency in French and German doesn't come from his training but from growing up in a bilingual household, his parents are immigrants from Europe (dad is German... hence the "Hauser" surname, mother is French).
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