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09-20-2017, 06:17 PM | #22261 |
Crimson Guard
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Yeah I hear you. Imagine how much cooler it would have been if Snake-Eyes team were just Commandos instead of Ninja Force. Maybe a few would die along the way but get replaced. Like if you swapped out Dojo, T'Jbang, and Nunchuk with more operator types who would you pick?
Shockwave, Wreckage, Night-Fox for example. |
09-20-2017, 06:20 PM | #22262 |
Hog Driver
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Location: Georgia
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Agreed. I also choose the Joes whose specialties are MP or similar to create a Special Reaction Team, which is great for kicking doors.
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09-20-2017, 07:25 PM | #22263 |
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Is this what M.P.s are known for? I just assumed that they were the guys responsible for going out to the local bar and dragging drunk G.I.s back to base...
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09-21-2017, 11:19 AM | #22264 |
Hog Driver
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Well that and they keep the donuts warm.
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09-25-2017, 07:20 PM | #22265 |
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I'm looking at Shipwreck's file-card. It says he fought pirates on the Mekong (I'm assuming Vietnam); he then served at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Yokosuka, Kanagawa; as well as "certain carrier-initiated operations in the Middle East." Can anyone give me a timeline on this? I'd appreciate it.
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09-25-2017, 08:00 PM | #22266 |
EQ-Viper
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I'm looking at Shipwreck's file-card. It says he fought pirates on the Mekong (I'm assuming Vietnam); he then served at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Yokosuka, Kanagawa; as well as "certain carrier-initiated operations in the Middle East." Can anyone give me a timeline on this? I'd appreciate it.
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09-25-2017, 08:12 PM | #22267 |
W.O.R.M.S. Commander
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I liked to pretend the Middle-East operations was the evacuation of Cyprus that my father participated in circa 1974
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09-26-2017, 02:24 AM | #22268 |
Commando
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could be Operation Eagle Claw, the failed rescue of the Tehran Embassy hostages in 1980
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09-26-2017, 07:32 AM | #22269 |
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Given when the filecard was written (sometime between 1982 and 1984 is my best guess), the Mekong reference squarely places Shipwreck as serving during the Vietnam War, likely as a member of Boat Support Unit One (the precursor of today's SWCC teams). The Guantanamo and Japan naval base references are likely naval base postings that aren't intended to be tied to any specific operations (although I'd like to imagine that Shipwreck was assigned to the Naval Security Group Activity when he was in Gitmo). The Middle East deployment could be a reference to anything, given that the US Navy has been active in that area in some form or another almost continuously since the 1970s.
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09-27-2017, 07:17 PM | #22270 |
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The Mekong issue aside, did anyone else notice that Robo-JOE and Lifeline II share the same name? Robo-JOE is "Greg D. Scott" and Lifeline II is "Greg Scott".
I did find that there was a Hasbro employee named Greg Scott, who is an Industrial Designer. I wonder why he merits so much love from Hasbro that 2 characters are named after him? |
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