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06-16-2019, 12:16 PM
john shaft
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I tend to put Big Ben with my artic Joes, because he seems to wear cold weather gear more than anything. Plus, he's so tough. What I always hated about the comics is that the Arctic characters were hardly ever used, but here in the United States half of the country is buried under snow or severe icy conditions for 6 months in the winter. Technically, Snow Job, Big Ben, Iceberg, etc. would be often busier than the regular Joes at that time of year. In many places, like Minnesota or Montana, they might be the only soldiers on the team with the right gear and equipment to tackle Cobra!
I see all the Joes having some training in all the climates with others being the Subject Matter Expert in particular environments. I don't see Dusty just operating in a desert and Snow Job/Frostbite/etc operating in winter environments. No way Dusty would be the only desert SME on the team either. As mentioned by Loose there are other Joes with desert training (in addition to the ones he mentioned I think Doc had desert training as well).
So in my opinion all Joes operate in any environment (otherwise their use would be very limited). A good example is a five man team of Stalker, Dusty, Recoil, Spirit and Snow Job sent to some place in the middle east to take down a HVT. Maybe the team is dropped via helicopter in the desert and needs to patrol to the target. While Stalker is the team leader he defers all aspects to surviving in a desert to Dusty as he is the SME in this environment. Dusty will know which plants may be edible and which types of insects to avoid. Once they are at their mission objective Spirit and Snow Job will be the sniper team to take out the HVT while the other three provide security. Snow Job's skill as a sniper will be completely wasted if he sat in some frozen tundra waiting all day for targets to appear (when the enemy may not even operate in such environments for long periods of time). I look at the Joes as similar to SEALs. Most SEAL missions are not water based but land based. Their talents would be wasted if they waited their entire time for water-based missions.
In the example of the desert mission mentioned in the comics with Torpedo in the lead, Dusty may have been on another mission at the time and was not available.
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