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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-21-2010, 05:53 PM
Tanksmasher
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Nothing in Bellomo's book about Leatherneck rank changing, and he's usually on top of stuff that Hama originally suggested and stuff that got changed in the figures.
I wouldn't stick to the years that much.
Remember, Hama retconned in the Frontline stories that introduced Shooter, he had Wild Bill and Ace as early Joes same time as the original 13 and in the Marvel run he retconned it so Doc was around the time SE had his accident.
So I'd just go off the filecards and which ones seem like they would have been in 'Nam.
This is why I envision the Joes as a much larger unit than what was initially portrayed. If we consider the initial unit as just a 13-man team that later recruited more guys, it makes that first team seem pretty damn small, unless you assume they had greenshirts and such.
I kind of see the original 13 as the first "training class" for GI Joe, not the first operational unit. So after this class came another class containing the Joes of 83 and then the Joes of 84 and so on. Then after several classes of people were trained, GI joe offically became operational. This way, there is some chronology as to which Joes signed up when.
Also, I like to believe that there were other Joes around (not just greenshirts who are merely support personnel)--but Joes that were running other missions parallel to the missions of the Marvel series. In other words, just because you read one book about a particular SF ODA that doesn't mean there weren't other SF ODAs running simultaneous missions. Their stories just haven't been told yet.
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