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10-22-2010, 04:30 AM
lardman
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So I was thinking a possible backstory for Wetsuit and Leatherneck. Back in the 80's Navy SEALS and how the special forces filled slots by experienced "troops" and not recruits.
While Wetsuit was a Hospital Corpsman 3rd class he was assigned with a MEU Platoon, Leatherneck was there as a Corporal. When Wetsuit was done with the tour, he tried out for Navy Seals. Leatherneck found out, he got furious that Wetsuit left a Marine Unit to be a SEAL. During his SEALS training he got BUD/S Training. During active deployment he was Hospital Corpsman and Lead Diver/Navigator for the Seal Team. While Leatherneck went on to become a Drill Instructor for the Marines. Then in 1985 they were both accepted to GI JOE Indoctrination Course. Their friendship is still very much alive even tho it consists of alot facetime and namecalling.
Is the corpsman background based on anything in particular?
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I only have Torpedo in his dive-suit. The rest of the Navy is out of their dive suits.
*The ROC Aqua-Viper Officer is a perfect Wetsuit.
Now that I look at the head under the Aqua-Viper helmet it's a decent match, I'm still not sold on the boots though - looks like they belong with a brass helmet diving rig!
The Aqua-Viper uniform does still look quite a lot like a diving suit to me. For me, a non-diver Wet-Suit still has to have jungle fatigues as he appeared in Yearbook #4 (1988) and Special Missions #8 (despite jungle warfare being not very common these days - I blame it on the Vietnam pictures I saw in my formative years!)
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