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[Destro]

Sorry, caught up with this a little late tonight. That's the only one I've got time to do tonight, but I'll try and get the rest done tomorrow for you.

[The Baron]

Excellent! Thanks very much.

I still have ten unaccounted for? Do I hear two more volunteers?

[Double-Tap]

Excellent! Thanks very much.

I still have ten unaccounted for? Do I hear two more volunteers?

stick my name down Boss.

PM me the details
Bill

[The Baron]

Cool! Five filecards winging their way Billwards.

[Destro]

Code Name: Blocker
Four-Wheeled Vehicle Driver

File Name: McCarthy, David B. SN: 500-63-0163
Primary Military Speciality: Mechanised Recon
Secondary Military Speciality: Special Services
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Grade: E-5 (Sergeant)

Blocker drove a taxi in Boston for three years. After seven armed robberies, three backseat births, and one near fatal plunge through a collapsing roadway, he decided it was safer to drive something armour-plated with the ability to shoot back. He is qualified to drive every wheeled vehicle in the army inventory and was the test driver for a half dozen prototype vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

"I've seen him go into a complete roll at high speed, recover and keep on going. He takes on a slalom minimally at 85mph and doesn't tip nary a cone. The skid pad? Don't even ask. All that and he does it with vehicles built to military specs. Amazing!"

[Destro]

Code Name: Hardball
Multi-Shot Grenadier

File Name: Duggleby, Simon S. SN: 075-09-4876
Primary Military Speciality: Infantry
Secondary Military Speciality: Special Services
Birthplace: Cooperstown, New York
Grade: E-4

After five seasons of playing centrefield in the minor leagues, Hardball came to the realisation that the big league scouts just weren't interested in athletic prowess; they wanted star quality. The G.I. Joe Team was more interested in team-players than in stars, and they had a real need for a guy who could judge distances accurately and react quickly with deliberation.

"Grenade launchers are fitted with adjustable, graduated sights, calibrated in 25 metre increments. In a firefight, nobody wants to start readjusting sights - especially the blooper man. Hardball can drop a 40mm frag into a bucket from 75 meters, simply by eyeballing it. The man's a natural."

[Destro]

Code Name: Lightfoot
Explosive Expert

File Name: Owen, Cory R. SN: 075-09-4876
Primary Military Speciality: Demolitions
Secondary Military Speciality: Artillery Coordinator
Birthplace: Wichit-a, Kansas

Fifty percent of any military manual on explosives consists of mathematical tables for calculating amounts of explosives needed, safe firing distances, power requirements for firing circuits, and formulas for cutting structural steel, timber and breaching various forms of bunker material. Lightfoot has memorized all of them, as well as all the conversion tables for foreign and non-military explosives. He's not taking any chances...

"Lightfoot has elevated being careful to an artform. You might say he's a Zen fussbudget. His eyes sweep the ground before him in measured quadrants, alert for tripwires, signs of digging and out-of-place vegetation. He sniffs the air for that smell of 'dead rubber'. Lightfoot may take twice as long to clear an area, but at least you won't get any nasty surprises."

[Destro]

You might say he's a Zen fussbudget.

That is how it is on the filecard.

What? Is that actually a word? Should be Fussbucket maybe?

[Destro]

Code Name: Mercer
Renegade

File Name: Stratton, Felix P. SN: 933-41-5632
Primary Military Speciality: Small Arms Armourer
Birthplace: Spencer, West Virginia
Grade: E-5 (equivalent)

Mercer doesn't answer to anyone but himself. He doesn't officially exist. He can function with very little restraint but if he is compromised, he is on his own.

Mercer was the only Cobra Viper that ever defected to G.I. Joe and survived. He had joined Cobra for the adventure and the promise of material gain but soon grew disaffected with the Cobra philosophy. He escaped Cobra Island by hot-wiring a hydrofoil and outrunning his pursuers across the Gulf of Mexico. Mercer is proficient with all Cobra small arms and explosive devices.

"Mercer found his true home with G.I. Joe. He gets three meals a day, a warm place to sleep and a chance to shoot at Cobras!"

[The Baron]

You might say he's a Zen fussbudget.

That is how it is on the filecard.

What? Is that actually a word? Should be Fussbucket maybe?

Weird!

Thanks very much!