This is the second member of my new Joe Team sub-group. He is called Jonah, and his specialty is extraction.
Background: GI Joe has been fighting Cobra for years now, without the success their founder had hoped for: the demise of the Cobra organization and fall of Cobra Island! Not only that, but Cobra has grown larger and gained support (although mostly from corrupt politians and Third World Nations), making them even more brazen in their grab at power.
As Cobra has gained media attention and began portraying themselves as a legitimate government, with "the best interests" of the world in general as their motivation, the Joes have been forced to sit back and wait; wait until the proof of Cobra Commander's plans to bring the world's leaders and people to their knees. For this reason, the Joe's formed a sub-group, who don't fight Cobra "fair" on the battlefield, but take it to them, Black-Ops style.
This new sub-team, known simply as The Dark, answers to Stalker only; the higher ups in GI Joe don't want to know the missions that he sends them on, so they won't have to lie about their knowledge of them at a later time. The members of The Dark are Joes, but aside from General Hawk, Duke and Stalker, only they among the Joes know this team even exists.
Team member bio:
File Name: Jonathon Blake
Code Name: Jonah
Jonah is The Dark's extraction man: his main objective is getting the team out alive. A mechanical whiz, Jonah can fix most any motorized vehicle out there, and can drive, fly or sail it to boot. However, don't let this fool you, as he is as capable as any member of the team, and provides ground cover for them when necessary.
From a recent debriefing, Thin Lizzie reported that Jonah stepped into the role of another member of the team who had been injured. She stated that he not only was not only adequate in doing so, but handled the assignment as if it had been his from the start. Also, she credits Jonah for getting the wounded member out of the hot zone and back to the base for medical attention after the mission was completed.
Note: Jonah is almost obsessive/compulsive when it comes to his vehicles, working on them before and after missions to make certain that they are in the highest performance condition possible. He says, "I don't want to get anyone killed because I was too lazy to give the extraction craft the care needed to keep it running from start to finish of the mission."
