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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-15-2009, 05:05 PM
Loose Cannon
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I think SE would be the first of example of a rogue warrior, but even SE has morals, except for the time when Storm Shadow put the ninja mindset on him while Scarlett was in a coma.
I've been trying to put together an outline for a story about the early Joes in Vietnam and I was thinking about putting one of them, perhaps Recondo, in Tiger Force. Some of the Joes will serve together and others will meet at Recondo school or out in the bush and form friendships that eventually bring them back together when the Joe team is formed.
I'm using file cards and the marvel comics to piece together the moment when Hawk recruits the original thirteen but I'm not sure how to explain the Joe team that existed before them. Colton first created the team in 1964 under the appointment of JFK, but the original Joes do not join until the mid 70s.
According to the comics, Snake Eyes fought during the Tet Offensive. He was in Nam on Jan 31, 1968 when the Baroness's brother was killed. We also know that he and Tommy had been in Nam for a whole tour when Collins, Escobedo and Saperstein are killed during the infamous recon mission, and Stalker had only been with them for 6 months at that point.
So if we assume that SE met Stalker at the beginning of 1968 and 6 months later he gets wounded and sent home, then he would have left for Japan sometime later that year. We know he stays in Japan for three years and then goes home to live in the High Sierras for another three years when Hawk and Stalker recruit him. That means that the original 13 started training together around '74-75.
My question is: what kind of unit was the Joe team prior to Hawk and his men? What happened to Colton and the Joes he assembled in the mid 60s? Were they like a Tiger Force that had to pulled out and disbanded and rebuilt again after the war? Perhaps that's why Hawk and the others never heard of Colton until they met him around issue 88 or so. Perhaps Colton and his team were wiped from the records because something unspeakable went down.
THis sounds awesome. Who are all the Vietnam vets?
SE
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Gung-Ho (I think, Should be)
Torpedo(Should be)
Spirit
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Recondo(Sounds good)
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Repeater(Probably)
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Payload
Rock'nRoll (Should be IMO)
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Flint (Could be old enough
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