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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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09-07-2011, 01:24 PM
zuludelta
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Lifeline 71
I was thinking about that reference to Operation Eagle Claw, and wondered if you'd use it, Zulu.
For the purposes of this project, I'll write in that some members of the Joe team (namely Snake-Eyes, Scarlett, Rock 'n' Roll, Stalker, and whoever else was around at the time of the crash that disfigured Snakes) were working with one of the units (the Ranger Bns, Delta, etc.) involved in Eagle Claw in 1980 prior to the creation of GI Joe, instead of having GI Joe "supplanting" Delta's role in the op.
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I agree that the Joes were probably first envisioned as a fictionalized version of Delta. It was an All Army unit for a while, and even with the addition of Gung-Ho and Torpedo, it probably still felt like they were "on loan" to the Army for special assignment to G.I. Joe.
Given how Army-centric the roster is, I think most of the Marine infantry and Navy SEAL types could be explained as "individual augmentees" in what is still, nominally, a US Army counter-terrorist unit (my personal preference is this, it gives the organizational design more focus and clarity). This works on the "plausibility-meter," I think, but becomes less than satisfactory when you start having to account for all the fighter pilots, astronauts, naval surface warfare-type personnel (guys like Cutter, Keelhaul, Rampart, and Topside) and their equipment that Hasbro starting producing down the line (I understand the thinking behind it though... pilots and guys like Cutter and Keelhaul would be needed to sell the larger vehicle sets, but it certainly wrought havoc on what had been a fairly plausible organization).
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