An ever increasing threat from Cobra required the team expand further into a global theater. Named for their fallen commander the USS Flagg was christened the mobole command center and air craft carrier for exclusive use by the team. Concerns involving lax protocol and training where silenced with the addition of a special drill instructor with a history of breaking bad habits.

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We all go home or nobody goes home. - Sgt Slaughter

Drill Instructor Sgt Rober Remus is better known by the name Slaughter. Known for pushing those he's charged with training to extremes they themselves where unaware of. Fiercely loyal and equally ferocious in battle. When tactics, tech and intelligence fails his iron will and brute strength has triumphed.

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Lead follow or get outta my way - Crankcase

That impatient foot tapping jitter you get waiting in line at the DMV.... Crankcase gets it anytime his vehicle is going less than 100 mph. Rarely has anything nice or good to say about anything but more than willing to interject his opinion. Often trys to complete others sentences and often has the job half finished by the time they're done explaining the job.

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FROSTBITE worked briefly as a lineman on the Alaska pipeline, but considered the job unchallenging, despite the 40 below zero temperatures and hazardous conditions. He joined the Army, when they promised to give him a challenge whenever he wanted one. Frostbite graduated from transportation school at Fort Eustis and armored school at Fort Knox.Frostbite's driving ability earned him a spot as the primary driver of the G.I. JoeSnow Cat. Though he prefers frigid conditions, Frostbite has served on missions in a variety of combat situations, driving several different vehicles.

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Before he ever came to command theU.S.S. Flagg, Keel-Haul gained the reputation as one of the best pilots in the Naval air force. He flew F-4 Phantoms back in the day. He is so cool even under pressure that he is capable of the seemingly impossible task of landing his jet fighter on an aircraft carrier's deck at night and he did it in the unusual situation of having most of his instruments damaged from a dogfight. The people who saw him that day claim that when he walked off, he didn't seem bothered by the experience at all.His aides noted how his great knowledge of military history and chess (he's a nationally-rated player) have gotten his carrier group out of tight situations. If need be, he is willing to double as an extra fighter pilot. Still, nobody wants to tell him to stop playing the clarinet.

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The origins of many Cobra operatives are easily bizarre enough but to have that same strangeness exist in a member of the Joe Team? Footloosehad it all. Highly intelligent valedictorian in high school, track team captain, gone to university on a state scholarship, an upbeat life anyone can be envious of. For some inexplicable reason, the man just went off the public radar, leaving his past and achievements. The people who last saw him then described him that he has started acting weird. And just like that, he was gone for three years before he resurfaced as a soldier in the Army. His behavior still puts off a lot of people. It's as if he is continually pondering his direction and thinking something is bigger out there. As nutty as he may seem, it should be of some comfort that he is a reliable man in combat and one of the best out there in the field.

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ady Jaye is a gifted linguist as well as an accomplished actress and mime artist. She is the most voluptuous woman on the G.I. Joe team. She has participated in or led many undercover missions for the Joe Team. She is a believer in the saying that "less is more." That is why when she puts on a disguise, she eschews complicated makeup and rubber masks. Instead, she becomes the object of her disguise, right down to movement and mannerisms, even right down to the dialect and accent. It also helps that her genes help her pass for a number of European and Middle Eastern natives.Lady Jaye is educated in Bryn Mawr andTrinity College, Dublin. Aside from Airborne and Ranger training, she is skilled in cryptological linguistics, signals intelligence, and electronic interception analysis. She is just as equally adept at infantry field work and quite enjoys the grunt duty.

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Flint is a classic example of a great, respected field leader. He is capable of making thorough tactical plans and executing them to a perfect tee. A natural leader who inspires his men to victory and credited with the success of several rescue missions in hostile territories. He is trained in many military skills including airborne, HALO jumping, ranger, helicopter piloting and is a Special Forces man.With all those attributes, it would not have occurred to many that Flint was aRhodes scholar and has a degree in English literature. The life of an academe held little meaning for him and promptly got bored. Joining the military was the adventure he was looking for. But all that literary pursuit didn't go to waste. The same tenacity and concentration he used to get through his scholarly struggles is what ultimately got him through his many trainings. He brings the same scholarly approach in laying out tactics and strategies.

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Tollbooth was an engineering prodigy. The building sets he made as a child were renowned for their size and complexity. It was only natural that he entered MIT for his engineering degree. When he became involved in construction projects, he made his reputation for finding solutions to engineering problems that haven't cropped up until they went past the drawing board. Finding solutions became his personal challenge and when he ran out of anything to pick out, the military became his next stepping stone. There it became his job to find all manner of ideas to get past the obstacles to where the Joe Team have to be. He couldn't be happier.

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Quick Kick had his odds stacked against him. He found difficulty being accepted by either the Japanese or Korean community because of his mixed blood. He would have had a passion for basketball if only he wasn't being turned down for his height. However, there was one thing he found out he could be good at. With his can-do attitude, Quick Kick excelled in many martial arts forms. He has earned black belts in many of them that you will find it hard to track of which ones he has yet to fully master. He is a top contender in Tae Kwon Do, Go Ju Ryo, Southern Praying Mantis Kung-Fu, Tai-Chi Sword, Zen Sword and Wing-Chun fighting arts.There are few places where mastery of the martial arts is prized. Hollywood is one of them. With his resumé, Quick Kick easily found work as a stuntman. The US Army didn't fail to notice him. He was recruited on the spot. With his skills and that same can-do attitude that got him through life, it didn't take long to get him inducted into the Joe Team.

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Alpine thrives on challenges. Every obstacle presents itself as a barrier he must overcome. In the flat Snake River Plain where he grew up, the mountains surrounding the area represented such barriers. Barriers that made him feel trapped. To this end, he took up mountain climbing whenever he can, even if it has to be recreational. When that wasn't enough, he joined the army, graduated from Fort Benning's Ranger School and ended up with the G.I. Joe Team. Now, he has one of the toughest assignments. Climbing up towards enemy positions while getting shot at. He's also an excellent accountant.

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Bazooka's trainers described him as a decisive fast thinker with the instincts of a natural survivor. They must have been on to something when they saw his transfer request to Armor School. Bazooka was driving an Abrams tank as part of the Third Armored Divisionwhen he came to the realization that an iliterate farmer armed with a $200 rocket launcher can knock out a tank.While Bazooka has never quite projected himself to be a highly intelligent individual, he has surprised his teammates and foes alike with his strength and tenacity. Having trained on both sides of armor, Bazooka is just as much a qualified tank operator as he is an anti-armor expert. When he's not busy, he likes to engage in his passion for fishing.

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The Kellys are a clan of multi-generational firefighters. Each Kelly son is very much expected to follow in the clan's footsteps. But there is one son who broke off from the family tradition. While he did have a stint as a Boston fireman, Barbecue broke off early on to join the Army. Perhaps this is a testament to his adventurous nature. His profile indicates that his being a fireman was not of some sense of duty or tradition rather he enjoys the action that goes on in every drill and emergency.Barbecue is often described as a party animal who knows how to get people excited. But come the time that for an actual emergency, you can just as much trust him to maintain everyone's coolheadedness.

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Shipwreck has earned a reputation as being one of the more rambunctious members of the G.I. Joe Team. It's not that he is in any way disobedient or disrespectful of higher up officers. His arrogant, brash personality and stereotypical sailor attitude has gotten him in trouble so many times. He prefers to take up his own actions and fight the enemy in his own way. He also has a reputation for telling tall tales and for his poor culinary skills. It seems he is the only one who can stomach his own cooking. His superiors have had enough and shipped him to Navy S.E.A.L. School in the hopes the training there would make him a better man. It made him better alright... a better fighter only.

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Airtight has always been the unrepentant practical joker. He dabbles in all sorts of pranks. Itching powder, whoopee cushions, plastic barf, everything you could ever think of and more. Such actions would have tested the patience of his teammates to their very limits. He would probably have been thrown out long ago if it weren't for the fact that he's the only one who volunteers to suit up without hesitation for the missions that would make one's skin crawl. Cobra continuously comes up with ever more lethal concoctions and the fact that any one of them could be so corrosive enough to eat through that suit of his never seem to bother him at all.Airtight specializes in CBR (chemical, biological and radiological) science. An interest nurtured by his strange childhood. As a boy, his obsessions include testing his limits in offbeat ways (he could hold his breath the longest), collecting plastic dinosaurs and thinks peanut butter and tomato go together perfect as a sandwich.

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