The Geopolitical Intelligence & Joint

Operations Executive

August 2010
Office of the Director, Geopolitical Intelligence & Joint Operations Executive

Not approved for public distribution, for internal use only

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.”

- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

 Document Outline
● Agency Description

● Agency History

● Agency Organization

– Command & Control Element (C2E)

– Analysis & Control Element (ACE)
– Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment
– Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment
– Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment
● Agency Headquarters

● Agency Recruitment, Eligibility Requirements, Training, Uniforms, and Equipment

● Appendices

– Appendix A : GIJOE Sub-unit Composition

– Appendix B : Comparative Enlisted Pay-Grades & Ranks
– Appendix C : Comparative Warrant Officer Pay-Grades & Ranks
– Appendix D : Comparative Officer Pay-Grades & Ranks
– Appendix E : Federal Government Pay-Scales & Their Approximate Military Pay-Grade Equivalents
– Appendix F : GIJOE Insignia
– Appendix G : Acronyms & Abbreviations
– Appendix H : Partial List of GIJOE Position-Specific Duties & Responsibilities
– Appendix I : Glossary of Select Terms
– Appendix J : Sample GIJOE Personnel Files
Agency Description

The Geopolitical Intelligence and Joint Operations Executive (GIJOE) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with the clandestine and/or covert collection of actionable
geopolitical human-resource intelligence in foreign territory. The agency's statutory role is defined in such a way that the scope of its activities do not interfere with that of other agencies or executive
branch departments. The bulk of GIJOE operators are individual augmentees from the armed forces, with a small number of private contractors and federal employees seconded from the Department
of Defense and the Department of State rounding out the remainder of the agency's approximately 300-strong workforce. Attached military personnel are authorized a substantial hazard pay amount
that keeps compensation competitive between the normally lower-paid Armed Forces personnel and their civilian counterparts.

GIJOE's current operational focus is the gathering of actionable intelligence on the network of relationships linking established corporate entities to conventional weapons proliferation, terrorism, and
state and/or state-sponsored acts of terrorism in the United States and abroad. Of particular interest to the agency at this time are certain private military contractors and arms manufacturers
suspected of directly or indirectly providing training and matériel to militant organizations, international terrorist groups, and state sponsors of terrorism.

Agency History

Current agency director Joseph Colton, PhD, whose research in strategic studies provided much of the theoretical framework for the formation of GIJOE in 2010, cites the strategies and tactics
employed by the United Kingdom's Special Operations Executive (1940-1946) as strongly influencing the basic concepts GIJOE would be founded upon.

The idea of a small, partially autonomous, interagency counterterrorist intelligence gathering unit with limited organic combat and logistics assets was formally forwarded by Col. Colton (US Army, ret.)
in his 2004 doctoral thesis entitled "Modeling Adaptive Organizations in the Current Irregular Warfare Context." Drawing upon organization modeling theory and the real-world lessons learned from the
Intelligence Community's lapses prior to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the continued misrepresentation of intelligence by key government figures that led to the contentious invasion of Iraq
in 2003, and USSOCOM's past successes and failures in managing the growing threat of 21st century terrorism, Colton successfully argued that an independent, operationally agile formation
composed of volunteer individual military augmentees and government and private sector intelligence and security professionals would be more responsive and effective than the traditionally
organized and regimented units the CIA, USSOCOM, and Department of Homeland Security utilize in countering emergent foreign and domestic terrorist threats. This same organization would also be
more accountable for its actions and be held to higher professional military and intelligence-gathering standards than the growing number of private military contractors being hired by the
administration to handle increasingly sensitive force protection and anti-terrorism duties.

It was Dr. Colton's theories that provided the initial impetus for the joint proposal by the US House Committee on Armed Services and the US House Committee on Homeland Security for the creation
of a small, independent, government agency capable of clandestine and covert human-resource intelligence gathering and limited armed engagement of targets of opportunity. Congress authorized
the formation of the Geopolitical Intelligence and Joint Operations Executive (GIJOE) in April of 2009 and Dr. Colton himself was nominated by an ad hoc expert committee to head the newly-minted
agency. President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Colton as the first director of GIJOE in June of 2009. In August of the same year, President Obama issued Executive Order 12333a, amending
Executive Order 12333 and granting GIJOE limited license to conduct covert operations in support of its mandate, making it only the second government agency (after the CIA) authorized to perform
legally deniable military and paramilitary actions. Congress would later provide an authorizing resolution for the executive order the via the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. After an
initial round of recruiting, organizing, and training that stretched over several months, the agency was formally stood up on 20 June 2010 at its base of operations, the re-commissioned Fort
Wadsworth installation on New York's Staten Island.

Agency Organization

The Geopolitical Intelligence and Joint Operations Executive is structured as a multi-unit task force comparable in size to a small battalion.

Figure 1. GIJOE organizational structure

Command & Control Element (C2E)

The Command & Control Element (C2E) comprises GIJOE's overall command personnel and staff, both civilian and military. The triad of the C2E, the Analysis & Control Element (ACE) and the STEEL
Detachment form what could be considered GIJOE's headquarters in the traditional military organizational sense.

Figure 2. C2E organizational structure

● The Office of the Director plans and oversees GIJOE's activities and analyzes their effects. The director and deputy director are appointed by the president from a list of candidates prepared
by an independent, non-partisan, ad hoc committee composed of leading counterterrorism, intelligence, and security analysts from the public and private sector. There is no statutory
provision which specifically excludes active military personnel from being nominated for the positions, although the Geopolitical Intelligence and Joint Operations Executive's charter
stipulates that the director and deputy director positions cannot be simultaneously filled by active-duty military officers. Neither the candidate list nor appointments require Congressional or
Senate approval. Command staff are appointed by the director and deputy director.
● The Operations Section is the director's primary resource for for planning, coordinating, prioritizing, and synchronizing GIJOE's intelligence-gathering operations.
● The Tactical Deception Group provides deception planning support, supports GIJOE deception operations, and executes limited deception events with organic resources (such as decoys
and communications deception). It is composed of a Group HQ tasked with recommending deception objectives, developing deception plans which present deception narratives to the
adversary intelligence collection system, and monitors, via the appropriate elements, the execution of deception plan; a Plans & Operations Team that functions as a control station for the
Tactical Deception Group; a COMSEC Team in charge of deploying and employing electronic communications deception devices in support of GIJOE deception operations; a Camouflage &
Concealment Team responsible for preparing physical deception measures and organizing material and personnel to be employed in deception operations; an Electromagnetic Emanations
Security Team with the mission of establishing and maintaining the noncommunications profile of replicated units for deception operations; and an ELINT/Imagery Analysis Team that
provides electronic intelligence and imagery analysis support to the components of the Tactical Deception Group.
 ● The OPINTEL Team is responsible for providing timely and accurate intelligence analysis and products in support of the director and his staff. The team makes analytical predictions on when
and where hostile actions will occur. The team is responsible for evaluating the enemy in terms of doctrine, order of battle, high-value and or high-pay-off targets, capabilities, and
vulnerabilities. It also plans and manages surveillance and reconnaissance activities in coordination with the Office of the Director, the Operations Section, and the various element leaders.
● The Administrative Affairs Team is responsible for maintaining unit strength and conducting personnel actions. The team identifies and reports critical personnel shortages to the director and
deputy director. It ensures attached military personnel transition smoothly into and out of GIJOE and handles routine day-to-day tasks such as preparing element status and strength reports,
monitoring training qualifications, preparing personnel awards and orders, scheduling, and other administrative support as required.
● The Logistics & Mobility Team is tasked with providing logistical planning and support to GIJOE. The team supports the synchronization of intelligence collection and sustainment operations.
● The C-E Team is the primary planning resource for all command and control communication and networking operations. Command communications personnel work closely with the
Operations Section to ensure and maintain clear lines of communication during operations.
● The Legal Team serves as the legal adviser to the director and the agency as a whole. It is responsible for advising on all legal aspects of GIJOE operations and legal issues arising in
connection with agency actions. It handles lawsuits filed against the director in his role as the director and serves as the primary agency contact for the Department of Justice.
● The Public Affairs Team is tasked with managing the public relations risks and opportunities of the agency, both internally and externally. It is responsible for public communications to the
media and other government agencies. It advises and participates in decisions that may impact the ongoing reputation of the agency.

Analysis & Control Element (ACE)

The Analysis & Control Element (ACE) has the primary mission of performing collection management, producing
all-source intelligence, providing IEW technical control, and disseminating intelligence and targeting data. The
element supports the agency director in executing and planning future missions across the range of all-source
collection management and technical intelligence processing operations. It is habitually co-located with the
Command & Control Element to facilitate tasking and communications.
● The Element HQ exercises overall supervision and coordination of current and future Analysis &
Control Element operations.
● The All-Source Intelligence Platoon consists of a Platoon HQ, an Intelligence Distribution Terminal
Station, and four subordinate teams: All-Source Production, Collection Management, Target
Nomination, and Dissemination. The Platoon HQ oversees the full spectrum of the platoon's all-source
intelligence operations. Personnel assigned to the Intelligence Distribution Terminal Station are tasked
with providing the agency director, his staff, and element leaders with a comprehensive and common
view of the tactical space to aid in intelligence and targeting operations. Analysts from the four
subordinate teams are in charge of situation development, intelligence preparation of the tactical space,
battle damage assessment, all-source correlated database maintenance, target development, and
collection management.
● The Technical Control & Processing Platoon consists of a Platoon HQ and three subordinate teams:
SIGINT, HUMINT/CI, and Imagery Analysis. The Platoon HQ oversees and coordinates technical
control and processing operations. Analysts from the three subordinate teams perform discipline-
specific processing, analysis, reporting, and database management. The platoon is also responsible for
providing discipline-specific analysis support to the Source Operations & Intelligence Collection
Detachment's Intelligence & Surveillance Platoon, Collection & Jamming Platoon, and Composite Aerial
Reconnaissance Section.

Figure 3. ACE organizational structure

Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment

The Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment is responsible for providing tailored combat support and combat service support to stateside and deployed GIJOE
assets.

Figure 4. STEEL Detachment organizational structure

 ● The Detachment HQ is composed of three sub-units: the Detachment Command Team, the GIJOE Training Cadre, and the Office of the Ombudsman. The Detachment Command Team
oversees all combat support and combat service support activities. When the Detachment Command Team and the C 2E's Command Logistics Team are simultaneously deployed overseas,
they are frequently colocated to form a secondary Operations Section. The Training Cadre is responsible for developing and implementing GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, the
GIJOE Basic Small Arms Proficiency for Non-Military Personnel Course, the GIJOE Combatives for Non-Military Personnel Course, and various core skills-maintenance programs. Senior
GIJOE members not on active assignment can and do volunteer as cadre guest instructors. The Office of the Ombudsman is a dispute resolution team that provides impartial independent,
and confidential assistance to agency personnel. It is an independent organ answering directly to the agency director, but is administratively attached to the STEEL Detachment HQ.
● The Service Support Platoon provides food service, parachute rigging, and diverse mechanical and electronic/electrical maintenance support to the agency.

●
The C-E/IEW Maintenance Platoon is composed of specially trained personnel capable of meeting the agency's intermediate C 4I technology maintenance needs.
● The COMMO Platoon is composed of a Platoon HQ which provides signal personnel and equipment for the STEEL Detachment as well as four subordinate transmission teams which can be
attached to individual Element HQs or Detachment Command Teams to facilitate intra-agency communications.
● The Physical Security Platoon executes area physical security operations, conducts limited internment/resettlement operations, and performs law and order functions along with police
intelligence operations in assigned areas as required. It is composed of a Platoon HQ tasked with overseeing the platoon's activities and three subordinate five-man Physical Security Teams.
● The Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Team utilizes the agency's C-27J Spartan transport aircraft. The team operates out of the Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in New York's
Suffolk County. Aircraft maintenance, unit-level supply services, as well as aviation safety and standardization activities pertaining to the team are the responsibility of non-GIJOE Air National
Guard base personnel, as per an agreement with the state government of New York. In cases where a mission's air movement requirements exceed the logistical capabilities of the team and
its aircraft, the team's senior pilot liaises with the Air Mobility Command (AMC) and the New York Air National Guard to produce air transportation solutions.

● The Medical Treatment Team provides health service support to the agency. This support includes emergency and non-emergency medical and surgical treatment for wounds, injuries, or
illnesses; advanced trauma management; and sick call services. The team is capable of performing split-based operations, with half of the team's personnel performing limited casualty
evacuation missions from the supported elements to the treatment station. The team habitually establishes the treatment station where it can best support the agency's deployed elements.

Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment

GIJOE's Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment provides it

with a multi-spectrum intelligence collection capability.
● The Detachment Command Team exercises overall supervision of current and
future intelligence collection field operations.
● The two RETRANS Teams install, operate, and maintain radio and data
distribution systems and signal support equipment and terminal devices.
● The Intelligence & Surveillance Platoon has four units: a Platoon HQ, a
Counterintelligence (CI) Team, a Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE) Section,
and a Special Projects Team. The Platoon HQ is tasked with administrative
and intelligence collection management duties. The CI Team protects GIJOE
assets against espionage/sabotage activities conducted on behalf of foreign
governments or domestic and international terrorist groups. The SSE Section
conducts interrogation, decryption of captured information systems, crime
scene investigations, weapons intelligence collection, and battle/collateral
damage assessment. The Special Projects Team conducts CI and HUMINT
activities that fall outside of conventional intelligence doctrine.
● The Collection & Jamming Platoon is charged with the detection, geolocation,
and exploitation of foreign communications using signals equipment. The
Platoon HQ oversees platoon operations while the Transmission Analysis
Team provides translation and analysis support to the platoon. The Voice
Intercept Team detects, locates, and identifies foreign communications. The
platoon also has three Low Level Voice Intercept (LLVI) Teams tasked with Figure 5. SONIC Detachment organizational structure
conducting voice intercept field operations using portable intercept equipment.
 ● The Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section operates the agency's manned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft in support of the detachment's intelligence collection missions. Aerial
reconnaissance activities may also be conducted in direct support of C2E, ACE, and TIGER Detachment operations. The Platoon HQ oversees operations and is habitually co-located with
the Detachment Command Team. The Fixed-Wing Aerial ISR (for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) Team operates the agency's MC-12W Liberty aircraft. Its personnel are
responsible for piloting the craft and manipulating its surveillance and telemetry equipment. The Rotary-Wing Aeroscout Team operates the agency's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter in
support of target analysis missions. The team is also capable of conducting limited target acquisition and armed reconnaissance activities. Both teams operate out of the Francis S. Gabreski
Air National Guard Base in New York's Suffolk County. Aircraft maintenance, unit-level supply services, and aviation safety and standardization activities pertaining to the section is the
responsibility of non-GIJOE Air National Guard personnel assigned to the base, as per an agreement with the state government of New York.

Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment

The Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment is charged with the collection of human-resource intelligence through long-range special reconnaissance
and surveillance up to 160 miles forward of the front edge of the designated operational space. The detachment can operate unsupported for up to ten days using organic assets. All personnel
assigned to the TIGER Detachment are airborne-qualified and have received military mountaineering and helicopter rope suspension techniques training, as well as basic instruction in the use of
inflatable small craft and non-standard tactical vehicles and many have undergone specialized navigational skills, advanced combat leadership, or special operations/special operations-capable
training such the Pathfinder School (US Army), Sapper Leader Course (US Army), Ranger School (US Army), Special Forces Qualification (US Army), 75th Ranger Regiment Assessment and
Selection Program (US Army), Combat Control School (USAF), Special Tactics Advanced Skills Training (USAF), Basic Reconnaissance Course (USMC), BUD/SEAL Training (USN), SWCC Training
(USN), EOD Diver Training (USN).

Figure 6. TIGER Detachment organizational structure

● The Detachment HQ contains three subordinate units for the command and control of the detachment. Personnel in the Detachment Command Team plan and control the employment of the
LRS teams, coordinate insertion and extraction of the teams to include external support, and receive and report information from deployed teams. The Surveillance & Acquisition (STA)
Sniper Team provides the Detachment HQ with a close reconnaissance capability as well as a limited ability to engage targets of opportunity at range. The Combat Observation/Lasing Team
(COLT) is tasked with requesting, adjusting, and controlling surface-to-surface fires, providing targeting information in support of close air support terminal attack controls, and performing
autonomous terminal guidance operations. While administratively and operationally attached to the Detachment HQ, the COLT directly answers to the C 2E's Fire Support Coordinator.
● The detachment's two COMMO Stations maintain communication between the Detachment HQ and the deployed teams. They operate on a 24-hour basis to ensure that all message traffic
to and from teams is processed immediately.
● The TIGER Detachment has three High-Value Target (HVT) Tracker Teams, each unit consisting of six men and a highly trained detection/tracking dog. The HVT Tracker Teams' primary
responsibilities include the deliberate identification, pursuit, and capture (or when required, neutralization) of senior or otherwise important enemy combatants; reconnaissance of an area for
possible enemy activities; and locating lost or missing friendly personnel.
 ● The detachment has eight Long-Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance (LRRS) Teams, special mission units charged with infiltrating deep into hostile territory and providing continuous
surveillance of an intelligence target for up to a week, depending on the availability of food and water supplies. These teams are capable of engaging targets of opportunity when allowed by a
mission's profile. LRRS Teams are also tasked with physically securing sensitive sites and conducting basic site assessment ahead of the agency's Sensitive Site Exploitation Section.
● The detachment's fifth LRRS team consists of personnel with extensive training and/or experience in performing their duties in especially arid and rugged terrain. All members of the team are
trained in the conduct of assault climbing operations in addition to the basic military mountaineering training common to all LRS Team personnel. LRS Team Five personnel are also
experienced in “tree jumping.”
● Personnel assigned to LRRS Team 6 are chosen for their prior experience in conducting missions in extreme cold weather environments. Members of the team have received additional
training in cold weather survival, winter navigation and mountaineering, and the use of specialist equipment such as skis, snowshoes, and OSVs (over-snow vehicles).
● LRRS Team 7 is composed of experts in High Altitude-Low Opening (HALO) and High Altitude-High Opening (HAHO) free fall parachuting techniques, making them exceptionally suited for
performing operations in areas that are especially inaccessible via low or medium-altitude airborne or helicopter insertion methods.
● In addition to performing overland reconnaissance and surveillance activities, LRRS Team 8 personnel are also trained to perform hydrographic, coastal, riverine, and port & waterways
reconnaissance, small craft navigation in inclement weather, underwater combat demolition operations against targets of opportunity, and “wet jumping.”

Agency Headquarters: Fort Wadsworth

GIJOE's headquarters is located at Fort Wadsworth, in the New York City

borough of Staten Island. Originally built as a single blockhouse in the late
17th century, the building had grown into an infantry fort by 1924. By 1955, it
had been re-purposed as the headquarters of the 52nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Brigade. In 1974, it became the site of the US Army Chaplain School. Fort
Wadsworth was handed over the the US Navy in 1979, when it became the
headquarters for the New York Naval Station. Fort Wadsworth was
decommissioned as a military installation in 1994 and absorbed by the
Gateway National Recreation Area. In the mid-1990s, the US Coast Guard
became a tenant in some of the buildings and housing previously occupied
by the Navy. The fort was re-commissioned as a federal installation in July of
2009 to serve as the headquarters for the Geopolitical Intelligence & Joint
Operations Executive.

The fort's Battery Weed has been converted to house GIJOE's various
administrative offices, while the former Fort Wadsworth Lighthouse is the
location for the installation's primary communications facility. The converted
Battery Richmond, Battery Dix, Battery Ayres, and Battery Barry structures
serve as living quarters for GIJOE personnel who elect to live on-base.
Battery Hudson has been re-purposed as a repair, parking, and storage
facility for the agency's fleet of tactical and non-tactical wheeled vehicles.
The former Battery Mills, and Battery Turnbull have been re-purposed as
supply depots while Battery Duane, Battery Bacon, and Battery Upton have
been redesigned as training facilities.

While Fort Wadsworth is a self-sustaining federal installation capable of

operating independently with minimal external logistics support for extended
periods, STEEL Detachment personnel tasked with the facility's day-to-day
operations are habitually reinforced and supported by non-GIJOE US Army
Reserve and US Army National Guard garrison units from nearby Fort
Hamilton.

GIJOE's Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft, Fixed-Wing Aerial ISR, and

Plate 1. Fort Wadsworth (in dark green) area map
Rotary Wing Aeroscout teams and their aircraft are housed at and fly out of
the Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, roughly 80 miles east of
Fort Wadsworth in Westhampton Beach, in New York's Suffolk County.
Agency Recruitment, Eligibility Requirements, Training, Uniforms, and Equipment

● Recruitment & Eligibility: Positions in GIJOE are open to any member of the US Air Force, US Army, US Coast Guard, US Marine Corps, and US Navy in the pay-grade of E-4 or above,
provided they fulfill the job-specific requirements for available positions in the agency and are eligible for TOP SECRET security clearance (waiverable to SECRET security clearance at the
discretion of the agency director). A selected military applicant is seconded from his or her parent unit with the joint approval of the President and the secretary of the applicant's respective
service. Military applicants accepted into GIJOE incur a three-year obligatory term of service with the agency. Applications for an extension of the term of service can be submitted to the
office of the director six months prior to the term's expiration. Select positions in GIJOE are also open to non-military personnel. Civilian GIJOE employees are drawn from other federal
government departments and agencies, regional and local government organizations, corporate organizations, and the independent private military contractor community.
● Educational Requirements: Military applicants must have, at minimum, an associate's degree or an equivalent number of college credits from an accredited post-secondary educational
institution (conversion of military experience to college credit accepted). Civilian applicants must have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited post-secondary educational institution.
● Training: All selected applicants for potential entry into the agency will have been chosen for the training and experience they already possess prior to application, significantly reducing
agency training costs. Civilian applicants with no prior military or law enforcement small arms and personal defense training or ex-military and law enforcement applicants who have been out
of the services for more than five years must pass the month-long Basic Small Arms Proficiency for Non-Military Personnel Course and the three week-long Basic Combatives for Non-
Military Personnel Course prior to attending the nine month-long GIJOE Professional Qualification Training at Fort Wadsworth. All selected military and civilian applicants are required to pass
Professional Qualification Training for acceptance into GIJOE (no waivers accepted). The training consists of intensive classroom coursework and practical field exercises in the topics of
intelligence collection and management, information operations, international affairs, and cross-cultural competence. The curriculum also incorporates a very demanding physical and mental
resilience training regimen. Applicants for positions in the Command & Control Element, Analysis & Control Element, SONIC Detachment, and TIGER Detachment must also attend SERE
Level-C and Individual Terrorism Awareness training at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center & School if they have not done so prior to applying for GIJOE entry. Professional
Qualification Training has a 97% attrition rate, with most program withdrawals occurring within the first three months of training. Failed applicants are allowed one opportunity to re-try for the
agency, which they must exercise within two years of their first application.
● Uniforms: Military GIJOE operatives are required to wear their branch's respective service uniforms with GIJOE insignia and markings
(see Appendix F for insignia details) and must adhere to the appropriate grooming standards when in garrison and conducting their
duties in an official public capacity. Civilian operatives are required to wear business casual or international business attire when
doing the same. Service-specific combat and working/utility uniforms such as the Army Combat Uniform, Marine Corps Combat Utility
Uniform, Navy Working Uniform, Airman Battle Uniform, and Coast Guard Operational Dress Uniform are authorized for wear by
military GIJOE personnel in operational circumstances befitting their use. Civilian and military operators are also optionally issued
battle dress uniforms in the M81 Woodland and Three-Color Desert camouflage pattern as well as blue, olive drab, orange, red, and
tan coveralls for use in the appropriate working environments.

GIJOE operatives also have the option of wearing the GIJOE Professional Qualification Training uniform when working in conditions
more suitable for combat and working/utility wear. This uniform consists of a green tactical vest, non-standard COTS khaki trousers in
various cuts and styles, a midnight blue long-sleeved shirt, non-standard COTS green rough-out boots, and a proprietary design
ballistic helmet derived from the Army's Future Force Warrior program which incorporates an IFF-enabled GPS receiver, a
miniaturized combat net radio, integrated situational awareness enhancement sensors and displays, an ARMv6-architecture 32-bit
RISC microprocessor-equipped computer, and a rechargeable battery. For reasons of practicality and security, grooming and uniform
standards are suspended for operatives conducting activities in the field in order to facilitate ease of movement, concealment,
integration into local population and supported units, and other operational concerns.
● Communication Equipment and Information Systems: GIJOE is equipped with a diverse collection of Software Communications
Architecture-compliant combat net radios, secure servers, host applications, and ancillary equipment that communicate using MIL-
STD 188-220 and MIL-STD 2045-47001 network standards, as well as the open communication network standards promulgated by Plate 2. Female (L) and male (R) STEEL
the Internet Engineering Task Force, the World Wide Web Consortium, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Detachment personnel wearing
International Electrotechnical Commission. All GIJOE telecommunications equipment and information systems are continually tested the Professional Qualification
for compatibility and interoperability with current and future Joint Battle Command-Platform network systems and infrastructure. Training uniform

● Individual Weapons: GIJOE personnel are issued Heckler & Koch USP (Universale Selbstladepistole) Compact Tactical semiautomatic pistols as personal side arms. They are also given
concealed carry handgun permits valid in New York and jurisdictions that have reciprocity with the state. Select qualified personnel are also issued Heckler & Kock MP5 submachine guns,
M4 assault rifles, M249 light machine guns, M60E4 general-purpose machine guns, M24 sniper rifles, Milkor MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher) grenade launchers, M67 grenades, and other
firearms and ordnance as required by their duty assignments. A discretionary fund is provided for SONIC, STEEL, and TIGER detachment personnel to enable the individual acquisition from
federal government and commercial entities any standard and non-standard firearms and firearm attachments and modifications that operatives may deem suitable for agency missions,
although personnel are advised to limit their purchases to STANAG-compliant matériel whenever possible to facilitate interoperability, maintenance, and re-supply.
● Wheeled Vehicles: GIJOE maintains a “white fleet” comprising sixty unmarked automobiles of various makes and
models, ranging in size from subcompact cars to full-sized vans and pickup trucks. These vehicles are used by
personnel for the discreet on-road transportation of passengers and cargo, with the only modifications being the
addition of IFF-enabled GPS receivers and integrated combat net radio systems. Specially-configured full-sized vans,
equipped with a full suite of satellite communications and encryption gear, also serve as mobile command posts.

The agency also maintains a “green fleet” of sixteen tactical utility vehicles primarily intended for use by TIGER
Detachment teams on deep reconnaissance missions where alternative means of insertion, movement, and
extraction are deemed impractical or too risky. Each custom vehicle, called a VAMP (for Variable Applications Mobility
Platform), is a modified Land Rover Defender XD equipped with a Weapons Mounted Installation Kit (WMIK) and
powered by a 111 horsepower, four-cylinder, turbocharged diesel engine chosen for its low noise profile and inherent
resistance to electromagnetic interference. The VAMP has a top speed of 100 miles/hour and an operational range of
315 miles (which can be extended to 515 miles when carrying its full complement of four fuel canisters), although this
range is reduced to about 200 miles when the vehicle is carrying its maximum payload of 2,250 pounds. The VAMP
can fit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter's cargo bay and up to two of the vehicles can be carried within the cargo
bay of the agency's C-27J Spartan medium transport plane or a comparably capacious tactical airlift aircraft such as a
C-130 Hercules. It can also be configured for Low-Velocity Air-Drop (LVAD) parachute operations. The WMIK allows
for the attachment of frontal and lateral armor, an M249 light machine gun or a general-purpose machine gun (M60 or
M240) on the front passenger pintle mount, and a general-purpose machine gun (M60 or M240), M2HB heavy
machine gun, or MK 19 automatic grenade launcher on the rear ring mount. It can seat six personnel comfortably
(including the driver, vehicle commander, and the rear gunner) but this capacity can be expanded to eight with the
Plate 3. VAMP (Variable Applications Mobility Platform)
rear ring mount weapon removed. The vehicle can also be fitted with a “periscope” engine snorkel, allowing it to be
operated fully submerged underwater as long as the snorkel's air intake remains above water. Additionally, it can be
converted to a tracked over-snow vehicle (OSV) by replacing its tires with Mattracks-brand rubber track conversion
systems, endowing it with considerable traction and maneuverability in snow and ice-covered environments
● Small Craft: Each of the TIGER Detachment's component teams is issued a modified Zodiac FC470 Evol 7 inflatable boat,
called a SHARC (for Shoreline Hazard Assessment/Raiding Craft). These versatile craft are ideally suited for performing
coastal reconnaissance as well as clandestine over-the-horizon transportation onto beaches, piers, quays, offshore platforms,
and large sea-going vessels. A SHARC can be air-dropped and inflated in a matter of minutes either manually with a foot
bellows or automatically with a fast inflation kit. The craft can be propelled by oar or with a 55 horsepower outboard engine
(capable of reaching speeds of up to 20 knots with a range of about 65 nautical miles). It can carry up to a maximum of ten
scout-observers or eight scout-observer swimmers with full SCUBA/CCUBA gear (maximum payload of 2,756 pounds).
Deflated, the craft weighs 264 pounds (minus the 280 pound outboard engine) and can fit inside a 2'6” x 4'11” container bag.
Plate 4. SHARC (Shoreline Hazard Assessment/Raiding Craft)

● Observation/Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter: The SONIC Detachment's Composite

Aerial Reconnaissance Section operates an unmarked OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter
in support of intelligence collection and target acquisition missions. Its two weapons
pylons, which can be fitted with a combination of M296 .50 caliber heavy machine guns,
7-tube Hydra 70 rocket launchers, twin AGM-114 Hellfire II laser-guided anti-tank missile
racks, or ATAL (Air-to-Air Stinger Launcher) systems, provide the vehicle with the
capability to conduct small-scale armed aerial reconnaissance operations. Nicknamed
“Dragonfly” by its two-man crew, it has a mast-mounted sight (MMS) fitted with a high-
resolution TV camera for long-range, low-light target detection; a thermal imaging sensor
for navigation and target acquisition at night or under low-visibility conditions; a laser
rangefinder for target location and armament guidance, and a boresight assembly for
sensor alignment. The MMS gives the Dragonfly the ability to operate across a range of
visibility conditions at the maximum range of its weapons with minimum exposure to
threats. The aircraft can remain concealed below the horizon or behind structures during
all but a few seconds of an air-to-air or air-to-surface engagement. The helicopter has a
Wire Strike Protection System in the form of two knife-like extensions above and below
the cockpit, which protect the aircraft from the risk of wires (such as telephone lines,
power lines, guy wires) entangling the rotor during Nap-of-the-Earth (NOE) maneuvers by
cutting the wires before they come in contact with the main rotor assembly. The helicopter Plate 5. Dragonfly observation/armed reconnaissance helicopter
has a maximum operational range of 350 miles and a service ceiling of 15,000 feet.
● Fixed-Wing Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance (ISR) Aircraft: The SONIC
Detachment's Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section also operates a modified
MC-12W Liberty (which itself is a militarized Hawker Beechcraft 350 optimized for
flying surveillance missions). The aircraft, nicknamed “Skystriker” by members of the
agency, is equipped with a cameras and sensors that can supply video and telemetry
data to scout-observers and imagery analysts on the ground. It is also fitted with and
signals equipment that can intercept enemy communications to be analyzed on-board
or transmitted to the detachment's Collection & Jamming Platoon or to the agency's
Analysis & Control Element. The Skystriker is unarmed, but carries an array of
passive and active electronic countermeasures for protection from surface and
airborne threats. The aircraft has a maximum operational range of 2,750 miles and a
service ceiling of 35,000 feet,. Plate 6. Skystriker Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft
● Medium Military Transport Aircraft: A modified C-27J Spartan medium military transport is assigned to the
STEEL Detachment. The aircraft, nicknamed “Defiant” by its four-man flight crew (pilot, co-pilot, 2 aircraft
loadmasters), is a tactical airlift transport with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability: it needs a minimum
of only 1,903 feet for a tactical takeoff ground run at maximum takeoff weight and has a landing ground roll of
1,115 feet at the maximum landing weight. The Defiant is capable of carrying a maximum payload of 25,353
pounds and can be configured as a casualty evacuation (CASEVAC) or medical evacuation (MEDEVAC)
transport (with room for 36 stretchers and a six-man treatment team), a troop transport (with room for 68
personnel and their equipment), a paratroop-carrier (with room for 46 paratroopers and their parachuting gear)
or a cargo carrier (see Plate 8 for pallet loading and vehicle load arrangement details). It has a service ceiling
of 30,000 feet, a maximum ferry range of 3,680 miles, an operational range of 2,650 miles while carrying a
13,000 pound payload, and an operational range of 1150 miles while carrying a 22,000 pound payload. The
aircraft's night-flying capabilities and low noise, emissions, and infrared signature makes it perfectly suited for
clandestine insertion, extraction, and re-supply operations.

Plate 4. “Devilfish” small craft

Plate 7. Defiant medium military transport aircraft

Plate 8. Defiant cargo pallet/vehicle loading capabilities Plate 9. Defiant operational range with payload
 APPENDIX A: GIJOE SUB-UNIT COMPOSITION

Command & Control Element (C2E) Command & Control Element (C2E, con't)
● Office of the Director ● Electromagnetic Emanations Security Team
– Director – ELINT Intercept/Analysis NCO
– Deputy Director – ELINT Interceptor/Analyst (2)
– Command Operations Officer ● ELINT/Imagery Analysis Team
– Command Intelligence Officer – ELINT Intercept/Imagery Analysis Team Leader
– Command Administration Officer – ELINT Intercept/Analysis NCO
– Command Logistics Officer – Imagery Analysis NCO
– Command Communications-Electronics Officer – ELINT Interceptor/Analyst
– Command Senior Enlisted Adviser – Imagery Analyst
– Driver (2) ● OPINTEL Team
● Operations Section – Counterintelligence Technical Officer
– Tactical Intelligence Officer – Intelligence Analysis NCO
– Operations Officer ● Administrative Affairs Team
– Fire Support Coordinator – Administrative Affairs Chief
– SIGINT Chief – Administrative Affairs Supervisor
– CBRN Chief – Administrative Affairs NCO
– Counterintelligence Agent – Paralegal NCO
– Intelligence Analysis Supervisor – Administrative Affairs Specialist (2)
– Transmission Operations NCO ● Logistics Team
– Fire Support NCO – Logistics Chief
– Combat Net Radio Operator-Maintainer (2) – Supply Operations Specialist (2)
– Intelligence Analyst ● C-E Operations Team
● Tactical Deception Group – Senior Telecommunications Chief
● Group Headquarters – Signal Support Systems Specialist (2)
– Military Deception Officer ● Legal Team
– Deception Operations Chief-Counterintelligence – Legal Counsel
● Plans & Operations Team – Paralegal Chief
– All-Source Intelligence Analysis Technical Officer – Paralegal NCO (3)
– Deception Operations Supervisor ● Public Affairs Team
– Intelligence Analysis NCO – Public Affairs Officer
– Intelligence Analyst (2) – Public Affairs Chief
– Imagery Analyst – Public Affairs NCO
● COMSEC Team – Public Affairs Specialist (2)
– COMSEC Supervisor Analysis & Control Element (ACE)
– COMSEC NCO (2) ● Element Headquarters
● Camouflage & Concealment Team – Analysis and Control Element Leader
– Deception Operations Chief-Engineering – Analysis and Control Element Chief
– Deception Operations Supervisor-Combat Arms – Intelligence Analysis NCO
– Counterintelligence Agent ● All-Source Intelligence Platoon
– Imagery Analysis NCO ● Platoon Headquarters
● Electromagnetic Emanations Security Team – Tactical Intelligence Officer
– ELINT Intercept/Analysis NCO – All-Source Intelligence Chief
– ELINT Interceptor/Analyst (2)
 APPENDIX A: GIJOE SUB-UNIT COMPOSITION

Analysis & Control Element (ACE, con't) Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment
● All-Source Production Team ● Detachment Headquarters
– All-Source Intelligence Analysis Technical Officer ● Detachment Command Team
– SIGINT Analysis Technical Officer – Detachment Commander
– Intelligence Analysis Supervisor – Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser
– Intelligence Analysis NCO – Supply Operations NCO
– Intelligence Analyst (2) – Armorer
● Collection Management Team – Supply Operations Specialist
– SIGINT/EW Officer ● GIJOE Training Cadre
– All-Source Intelligence Analysis Technical Officer – Training Officer
– Collection Management Chief – Chief Observer/Controller-Trainer
– Intelligence Analysis NCO – Observer/Controller-Trainer (6)
– Intelligence Analyst ● Office of the Ombudsman
● Target Nomination Team – Organizational Ombudsman
– All-Source Intelligence Analysis Technical Officer – Paralegal NCO
– Intelligence Analysis NCO (2) – Administrative Affairs Specialist (2)
● Dissemination Team ● Service Support Platoon
– SIGINT Analysis Technical Officer ● Platoon Headquarters
– Intelligence Analysis NCO – Platoon Leader
– Intelligence Analyst – Platoon Chief
● Integrated Intelligence Distribution Terminal Station – Automated Logistics Specialist
– Integrated Intelligence Distribution Terminal Operations Chief – CBRN NCO
– Integrated Intelligence Distribution Terminal Station Supervisor ● Food Service Section
– Integrated Intelligence Distribution Terminal Operations NCO (2) – Food Service Operations Chief
– Integrated Intelligence Distribution Terminal Operator (2) – Food Service Operations Supervisor
● Technical Control and Processing Platoon – Food Service Operations NCO (3)
● Platoon Headquarters – Food Service Specialist (5)
– Platoon Leader ● Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section
– SIGINT Analysis NCO (2) – Motor Vehicle Maintenance Technical Officer
– SIGINT Analyst (2) – Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section Chief
– Combat Net Radio Operator-Maintainer (2) – Motor Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor
● SIGINT Team – Motor Vehicle Maintenance NCO (2)
– SIGINT Analysis Technical Officer – Recovery Vehicle Operator
– SIGINT Analysis Supervisor – Medium Fuel Tanker Operator
– SIGINT Analysis NCO (2) – Motor Vehicle Mechanic (4)
– ELINT Intercept/Analysis NCO ● Small Craft Maintenance Team
– SIGINT Analyst (2) – Small Craft Maintenance Supervisor
– ELINT Interceptor/Analyst – Small Craft Maintenance NCO
● HUMINT/CI Team – Small Craft Mechanic (2)
– HUMINT Collection Technical Officer ● SCUBA/CCUBA Equipment Maintenance Team
– Counterintelligence Agent (3) – SCUBA/CCUBA Maintenance Supervisor
● Imagery Analysis Team – SCUBA/CCUBA Maintainer-Repairer (2)
– Imagery Analysis Technical Officer ● Parachute Rigging Team
– Imagery Analysis NCO (2) – Parachute Rigging Supervisor
– Imagery Analyst (3) – Parachute Rigger (3)
 APPENDIX A: GIJOE SUB-UNIT COMPOSITION

Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment (con't) Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment (con't)
● Power Generation Equipment Maintenance Section ● Medical Treatment Team
– Power-Generation Equipment Repair Supervisor – Surgeon
– Power-Generation Equipment Repairer (2) – Physician Assistant
● Signal Support Systems Section – Treatment Team Chief
– Signal Support Systems Supervisor – Ambulance Team Chief
– Signal Support Systems NCO – Medical Specialist (2)
– Signal Support Systems Specialist (2) – Ambulance Aide/Driver (2)
● C-E/IEW Maintenance Platoon Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment
● Platoon Headquarters ● Detachment Command Team
– Platoon Leader – Detachment Commander
– Platoon Chief – Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser
● C-E Maintenance Section – Supply Operations Supervisor
– Network Management Technical Officer – Armorer
– C-E Maintenance Chief ● RETRANS Team One (2)
– Radio/COMSEC Systems Maintenance NCO – RETRANS Supervisor
– Automated Logistics NCO – RETRANS NCO
– Radio/COMSEC Systems Repairer (2) – RETRANS Systems Operator (2)
– Computer/Detection Systems Repairer ● Intelligence and Surveillance Platoon
● IEW Equipment Maintenance Section ● Platoon Headquarters
– IEW Systems Maintenance Technical Officer – Platoon Leader
– IEW Systems Maintenance Supervisor – Platoon Chief
– IEW Systems Maintenance NCO (2) ● Counterintelligence Team
– Automated Logistics Specialist – Counterintelligence Technical Officer
– IEW Systems Repairer (6) – Counterintelligence Agent (2)
● Transmission Operations Platoon ● Sensitive Site Exploitation Team
● Platoon Headquarters – HUMINT Collection Technical Officer
– Platoon Leader – Criminal Anti-Terrorism Investigator (2)
– Platoon Chief – HUMINT NCO
● Transmission Team (4) – Digital Forensics Investigator (2)
– Transmission Operations Supervisor – EOD NCO (2)
– Combat Net Radio Operator-Maintainer (3) – CBRN Reconnaissance Scout (2)
● Physical Security Operations Platoon – Imaging Equipment Operator
● Platoon Headquarters ● Special Projects Team
– Platoon Leader – Special Projects Team Leader
– Platoon Chief – Special Projects Technician (2)
– Driver ● Collection and Jamming Platoon
● Physical Security Team (3) ● Platoon Headquarters
– Physical Security Operations Supervisor – Platoon Leader
– Physical Security Operations Specialist (4) – Platoon Chief
● Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Team ● Transmission Analysis Team
– Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Pilot/Aircraft Commander – SIGINT Analysis Supervisor
– Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Pilot – SIGINT Analysis NCO
– Aircraft Loadmaster (2) – Voice Communications Intercept NCO
– SIGINT Analyst (2)
– Voice Communications Interceptor
 APPENDIX A: GIJOE SUB-UNIT COMPOSITION

Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment (con't) Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment (con't)
● Voice Communications Intercept Team ● Long-Range Reconnaissance & Surveillance Team (4)
– Voice Communications Intercept Supervisor – LRRS Team Leader
– Voice Communications Intercept NCO (2) – Scout-Observer (5)
– Voice Communications Interceptor (3) ● Long-Range Reconnaissance & Surveillance Team 5-Mountain
● Low-Level Voice Communications Intercept Team (3) – LRRS Team Leader
– Voice Communications Intercept NCO – Scout-Observer (5)
– Voice Communications Interceptor ● Long-Range Reconnaissance & Surveillance Team 6-Cold Weather
● Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section – LRRS Team Leader
● Section Headquarters – Scout-Observer (3)
– Section Leader – OSV Expert Operator (2)
– Section Chief ● Long-Range Reconnaissance & Surveillance Team 7-HALO/HAHO
● Fixed-Wing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Aircraft Team – LRRS Team Leader
– Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot/Aircraft Commander – Scout-Observer (5)
– Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot ● Long-Range Reconnaissance & Surveillance Team 8-NSW
– Surveillance Sensor Payload Operator – LRRS Team Leader/Reconnaissance Diver
– Voice Communications Interceptor – Scout-Observer/Reconnaissance Diver (2)
● Rotary-Wing Aeroscout Team – Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Ordnance Clearance Diver
– Aeroscout Helicopter Pilot/Aircraft Commander – Small Craft Operator (2)
– Aeroscout Helicopter Pilot
Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment
● Detachment Headquarters
● Detachment Command Team
– Detachment Commander
– Detachment Executive Officer
– Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser
– Detachment Communications Chief
– Detachment Supply Operations Supervisor
– Combat Net Radio Operator (2)
– Armorer
● Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Sniper Team
– Scout-Sniper/Spotter (2)
● Combat Observation & Lasing Team (COLT)
– COLT Leader
– Combat Observer (2)
● Communications Station (2)
– Transmission Operations Supervisor
– Transmission Operations NCO
– Combat Net Radio Operator-Maintainer
– Signal Support Systems Specialist
● High-Value Target Tracker Team (3)
– HVT Tracker Team Leader
– Visual Tracker
– Tracking Dog Handler
– Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-
Explosives
– Security Man
– Countertracker/Rear Security Man
 APPENDIX B: COMPARATIVE ENLISTED PAY-GRADES & RANKS
Pay Rank
Grade
USAF US Army USCG USMC USN

E-1 Airman Basic (AB) Private E-1 (PV1) Seaman Recruit (SR) Private (Pvt) Seaman Recruit (SR)

E-2 Airman (Amn) Private E-2 (PV2) Seaman Apprentice (SA) Private First Class (PFC) Seaman Apprentice (SA)

E-31 Airman First Class (A1C) Private First Class (PFC) Seaman (SN) Lance Corporal (LCpl) Seaman (SN)

E-4 Senior Airman (SrA) Specialist (SPC) or Corporal (CPL) Petty Officer Third Class (PO3) Corporal (Cpl) Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)

E-5 Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Sergeant (SGT) Petty Officer Second Class (PO2) Sergeant (Sgt) Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)

E-6 Technical Sergeant (TSgt) Staff Sergeant (SSG) Petty Officer First Class (PO1) Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Petty Officer First Class (PO1)

E-7 Master Sergeant (MSgt) Sergeant First Class (SFC) Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt) Chief Petty Officer (CPO)

E-8 Senior Master Sergeant (SMSgt) Master Sergeant (MSG) or First Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO) Master Sergeant (MSgt) or First Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO) or
Sergeant (1SG)4 Sergeant (1stSgt)9 Command Senior Chief Petty Officer
(CMDCS)12

E-9 Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt), Sergeant Major (SGM), Command Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO), Master Gunnery Sergeant (MGySgt), Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO),
Command Chief Master Sergeant Sergeant Major (CSM)5, or Sergeant Command Master Chief Petty Officer Sergeant Major (SgtMaj)10, or Command Master Chief Petty Officer
(CCM)2, or Chief Master Sergeant of Major of the Army (SMA)6 (CMC)7, or Master Chief Petty Officer Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (CMDCM)13, Fleet Master Chief Petty
the Air Force (SMA)3 of the Coast Guard (MCPOCG)8 (SgtMajMarCor)11 Officer (FLTCM)14, Force Master Chief
Petty Officer (FORCM)14, or Master
Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
(MCPON)15
1
USN, USMC, and USCG personnel in the E-4 pay grade are junior NCOs. In the Army, SPCs and CPLs share the same pay 8
The MCPOCG is a unique rank awarded to the senior enlisted adviser to the Commandant of the Coast Guard.
grade, but only CPLs are junior NCOs and hold authority over SPCs. Army CPLs are more likely to be found in combat units, and
are either PFCs who have been promoted to CPL or SPCs who have been laterally promoted to CPL. The rank of SPC is the entry
rank for Army recruits with baccalaureate degrees or those with demonstrated proficiency in select technical areas. 9
Msgt and 1stSgt represent equivalent ranks with different responsibilities. The former is a senior leader in technical matters
while the latter holds company-level command responsibilities.
2
CCM is considered a lateral promotion from CMSgt. The CCM promotion is awarded upon a CMSgt's selection by Wing (or
higher) leadership to serve as a senior enlisted adviser. Additionally, senior enlisted non-commissioned officers in the pay-grades 10
E-7 to E-9 can be assigned the position of First Sergeant (a squadron commander's senior enlisted adviser). MgySgt and SgtMaj represent equivalent ranks with different responsibilities. MgySgt is promoted from MSgt and is a senior
leader in technical matters while SgtMaj is promoted from 1Sgt and serves as a battalion (or higher) commander's senior enlisted
adviser.
3
The SMA is a unique rank awarded to the senior enlisted adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
11
SgtMajMarCor is a unique rank awarded to the senior enlisted adviser to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
4
1SG is considered a lateral promotion from MSG. The 1SG promotion is awarded upon a soldier's selection by battalion (or
higher) leadership to fill available 1SG billets at the company level.
12
CMDCS is considered a lateral promotion from SCPO. The CMDCS promotion is awarded to formalize a SCPO's selection as a
vessel's Chief of the Boat (the senior enlisted adviser to a vessel's commanding officer and executive officer).
5
CSM is considered a lateral promotion from SGM. The CSM promotion is awarded upon a SGM's selection by battalion (or
higher) leadership to fill an available CSM billet to serve as a battalion (or higher) commander's senior enlisted adviser.
13
CMDCM is considered a lateral promotion from MCPO. The CMDCM promotion is awarded upon a MCPO's selection to serve
as a unit commander's senior enlisted adviser.
6
The SMA is a unique rank awarded to the senior enlisted adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Army.

14
FLTCM and FORCM are equivalent ranks and are considered lateral promotions from CMDCM. The FLTCM/FORCM promotion
7
CMC is considered a lateral promotion from MCPO. is awarded upon a MCPO's selection to serve as a Naval Fleet or Naval Force's senior enlisted adviser.

15
MCPON is a unique rank awarded to the senior enlisted adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Navy.
 APPENDIX C: COMPARATIVE WARRANT OFFICER1 PAY-GRADES & RANKS
Pay Rank
Grade
USAF2 US Army3 USCG4 USMC7 USN8

W-1 discontinued Warrant Officer One (WO1) discontinued5 Warrant Officer One (WO-1) discontinued5

W-2 discontinued Chief Warrant Officer Two (WO2) Chief Warrant Officer Two (CWO-2) Chief Warrant Officer Two (CWO-2) Chief Warrant Officer Two (CWO-2)

W-3 discontinued Chief Warrant Officer Three (WO3) Chief Warrant Officer Three (CWO-3) Chief Warrant Officer Three (CWO-3) Chief Warrant Officer Three (CWO-3)

W-4 discontinued Chief Warrant Officer Four (WO4) Chief Warrant Officer Four (CWO-4) Chief Warrant Officer Four (CWO-4) Chief Warrant Officer Four (CWO-4)

W-5 discontinued Chief Warrant Officer Five (WO5) N/A6 Chief Warrant Officer Five (CWO-5) Chief Warrant Officer Five (CWO-5)

1
Warrant Officers are single track technical specialists, ranking above enlisted non-commissioned officers but below the conventional commissioned officer grades (O-1 and above). W-1 appointments are approved by the respective secretaries of the services, while
promotion to the Chief Warrant Officer ranks requires presidential approval, similar to conventional officer commissions.

2
The USAF stopped appointing warrant officers in 1959, although the ranks are still authorized for use should the Secretary of the USAF deem them necessary.

3
Warrant officers in the US Army primarily come from two sources: the NCO ranks and the civilian population. MOS-appropriate NCOs holding the minimum grade of E-5 (E-6 for those looking to become Special Forces W arrant Officers) and qualified civilians with
demonstrated proficiency in selected technical areas can attend the Army's Warrant Officer Basic Course. After successful graduation from the course, candidates are given the WO1 rank and continue on to further technical training depending on their specialty and
qualifications.

4
Warrant officers in the USCG are drawn from the NCO ranks (minimum grade of E-6).

5
The USN and USCG discontinued the W-1 rank in 1975, as senior Navy and Coast Guard NCOs in the pay grades of E-7 to E-9 appointed to W-1 actually received a reduction in pay despite the promotion. Navy and Coast Guard warrant officer candidates, unlike
their Army and Marine Corps counterparts, are appointed directly to Chief Warrant Officer.

6
The USCG has a W-5 rank, but has not used it since its authorization.

7
Warrant officers in the USMC are drawn from the NCO ranks. Marine warrant officers are divided into two categories: non-technical warrant officers (a.k.a. Marine Gunners) and technical warrant officers. Marine G unners serve as a unit commander's primary
adviser on infantry weapons employment and tactics. To be eligible as a Marine Gunner candidate, a Marine NCO must be qualified in an infantry MOS and hold a minimum rank of E-7. Technical warrant officers are, as their designation implies, leaders and experts
in a specific technical area. To be eligible as a technical warrant officer candidate, a Marine NCO must be qualified in an appropriate MOS and hold a minimum rank of E-5.

8
Warrant officers in the USN are drawn from the NCO ranks (minimum grade of E-6).
 APPENDIX D: COMPARATIVE OFFICER1 PAY-GRADES & RANKS
Pay Rank
Grade
USAF US Army USCG USMC5 USN5

O-1 Second Lieutenant (2d Lt) Second Lieutenant (2LT) Ensign (ENS) Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) Ensign (ENS)

O-2 First Lieutenant (1st Lt) First Lieutenant (1LT) Lieutenant, Junior Grade (LTJG) First Lieutenant (1stLt) Lieutenant, Junior Grade (LTJG)

O-3 Captain (Capt) Captain (CPT) Lieutenant (LT) Captain (Capt) Lieutenant (LT)

O-4 Major (Maj) Major (MAJ) Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Major (Maj) Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)

O-5 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Commander (CDR) Lieutenant Colonel (LtCol) Commander (CDR)

O-6 Colonel (Col) Colonel (COL) Captain (CAPT) Colonel (Col) Captain (CAPT)

O-7 Brigadier General (Brig Gen) Brigadier General (BG) Rear Admiral, Lower Half (RDML)4 Brigadier General (BGen) Rear Admiral, Lower Half (RDML)4

O-8 Major General (Maj Gen) Major General (MG) Rear Admiral (RADM) Major General (MajGen) Rear Admiral (RADM)

O-9 Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Lieutenant General (LG) Vice Admiral (VADM) Lieutenant General (LtGen) Vice Admiral (VADM)

O-10 General (Gen) General (GEN) Admiral (ADM) General (Gen) Admiral (ADM)

Special2 General of the Air Force (GOAF) General of the Army (GA) N/A N/A Fleet Admiral of the Navy (FADM)

Special3 N/A General of the Armies N/A N/A Admiral of the Navy

1 4
The term "officer" is used in this case to refer to commissioned officers, that is to say, officers who are appointed by a sovereign The USN and the USCG formerly authorized the rank of Commodore at the O-7 pay grade, equivalent to Rear Admiral, lower
authority such as the President of the United States. Officers in the US Armed Forces are generally drawn from three sources: half. The rank was discontinued by both services in 1983. In current Navy usage, commodore survives as a title of address for
service academies (such as the US Military Academy at West Point or the US Naval Academy in Annapolis), service-specific senior captains in command of destroyer, cruiser, submarine, amphibious, and riverine squadrons; coastal warfare groups,
officer candidate schools, and service-specific ROTC programs. Credentialed civilians in certain special fields such as medical special warfare (SEAL) groups, naval construction regiments, and air wings/air groups (with the exception of carrier air wings).
doctors, lawyers, nurses, and ordained members of the clergy who enlist in the military are also eligible to receive direct officer The title of commodore is also occasionally used by high-ranking volunteer members of the civilian US Coast Guard Auxiliary.
commissions upon meeting service and specialty-specific requirements.

2
The special ranks of General of the Army, General of the Air Force, and Fleet Admiral of the Navy are reserved for war-time use.
The Marine Corps and Coast Guard (in war-time), being subordinate to the Department of the Navy, do not have equivalent
special war-time ranks superior to General and Admiral, respectively.
3
The special ranks of General of the Armies and Admiral of the Navy have been used only three times in history: Admiral George
Dewey was promoted by Congress to Admiral of the Navy in 1899 for his actions in the Battle of Manila Bay (1898); General John
J. Pershing was granted the rank of General of the Armies in 1919 via an act of Congress in recognition of his performance as the
commander of the American forces in World War I, and George Washington was posthumously awarded the rank of General of the
Armies by an act of Congress in 1976.
5
The USN and the USMC maintain Limited-Duty Officer programs, which allow qualified enlisted personnel and warrant officers
to enter the officer ranks without going through the US Naval Academy, NROTC, or Officer Candidate School. In the USN, senior
NCOs (grades E-7 to E-9) and E-6s eligible for promotion to Chief Petty Officer with 8 to 16 years of experience and chief warrant
officers (with at least 3 years of experience as chief warrant officers and no more than 19 years of total service) are eligible to
apply for the LDO program. In the USMC, active duty warrant officers with at least 8 years of warrant officer service and less than
20 years of warrant officer service can apply to become LDOs. Limited-Duty Officers are leaders in their technical fields of
expertise (similar to warrant officers), but also hold command authority similar to their unrestricted line officer counterparts (i.e.,
officers who have received their commissions through traditional channels). "Limited-Duty" in this case, does not refer to the
scope of the LDO's responsibilities and authority; instead, it refers to the LDO's limitations in terms of promotion and career
advancement. LDOs rarely advance beyond O-6; many LDOs are of a relatively advanced age compared to unrestricted line
officers of equivalent rank by virtue of the time-in-service requirements for acceptance into the LDO program, and are thus closer
to the mandatory retirement limits of their respective services.
 APPENDIX E: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAY-SCALES & THEIR APPROXIMATE MILITARY PAY-GRADE EQUIVALENTS 1
General Schedule Pay-Scale Executive Service Pay-Scale Approximate Military Pay-Grade Equivalent

GS-01 N/A E-1

GS-02 N/A E-2

GS-03 N/A E-3

GS-04 N/A E-4

GS-05 N/A E-5/E-6

GS-06 N/A E-7

GS-07 N/A E-8

GS-08 N/A E-9

GS-09 N/A W-1/W-2/O-1

GS-10 N/A W-2/O-1

GS-11 N/A W-3/O-2

GS-12 N/A W-4/W-5/O-3

GS-13 N/A O-4

GS-14 N/A O-5

GS-15 N/A O-6

N/A ES Level V O-7

N/A ES Level IV O-8

N/A ES Level III O-9

N/A ES Level II/Senior Executive Scale O-10

1
Note that the pay equivalencies do not convey to civilian employees rank or authority over military personnel. In cases where civilian employees and military personnel are assigned to the same unit, the line of authority is
dictated by job title and not pay-scale or pay-grade.
 APPENDIX F: GIJOE INSIGNIA

● GIJOE Distinctive Unit Insignia

● Symbolism: Ultramarine blue signifies the air and sea mission, while green denotes
ground missions. The black V-shape area refers to stealth and victory. The dagger
represents agency members drawn from the Army. The trident, a symbol of naval
prowess, symbolizes personnel drawn from the Navy. The lightning bolt denotes the
agency's Air Force contingent. The anchor represents GIJOE's Marine Corps population.
Each symbol represents the four primary services that contribute to GIJOE's individual
augmentee military force. On the scroll is the Latin phrase “Ex Scientia Victoria”, which
translates into English as “From Knowledge, Victory”.

● GIJOE Beret Flash (authorized for US Army and select USAF career-field personnel only)

● Description: On a blue shield-shaped embroidered item with a semi-circular base 21/4

inches (5.72cm) in height by 17/8 inches (4.76cm) in width overall, edged with a 1/8 inch
(0.32cm) black border, an olive green diagonal band from upper right to lower left,
fimbriated yellow, charged with a gold dagger surmounted by diagonally crossed trident
and anchor and a horizontal lighting bolt.

● GIJOE Shoulder Sleeve Insignia

● Symbolism: The Shoulder Sleeve Insignia is adapted from the GIJOE Distinctive Unit
Insignia, thus its colors and charge have the same symbolism.
Plate 10. GIJOE Distinctive Unit Insignia

Plate 11. GIJOE Beret insignia Plate 12. GIJOE Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
 APPENDIX G: ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
Acronym/Abbreviation Definition Acronym/Abbreviation Definition

AFATDS Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System EEOCA Engineer Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent

AFIT Air Force Institute of Technology ELINT Electronic Intelligence

AFROTC Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps EMT Emergency Medical Technician
AIT Advanced Individual Training EMT-B Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
AMEDD US Army Medical Department EOCA Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent
ARCENT-SA United States Army Forces Central Command-Saudi Arabia Explosive Ordnance Disposal
EOD
ARFOR-T Army Forces Turkey
EW Electronic Warfare
ASAS All-Source Analysis Systems
FAI Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
C2 Command and Control
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
FEST Foreign Emergency Support Team
CASEVAC Casualty Evacuation
FLASH Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon
CBRE Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Explosive
FLETC Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
CBP-CETC US Customs and Border Protection Canine Enforcement Training Center
FORECON Force Reconnaissance Company (USMC reconnaissance unit)
CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
GIJOE Geopolitical Intelligence and Joint Operations Executive
CCUBA Closed Circuit Underwater Breathing Apparatus
HAZMAT Hazardous Materials
CFC Combined Forces Command
HF High Frequency
CI Counterintelligence
HRST Helicopter Rope Suspension Techniques
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
HUMINT Human Intelligence
CJFSOCC Combined Joint Force Special Operations Component Command
HVT High-Value Target
CJSOTF-A Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan
IED Improvised Explosive Device
CJTF-HOA Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa
IEW Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
COBRA Command Controller-Observer Regional Assistance Command, Inc.
IFF Identification Friend-or-Foe
COMMO Communications
INSCOM Intelligence and Security Command (US Army)
COMSEC Communications Security
INTERFET International Force for East Timor
CONUS Contiguous United States

COTS Commercial Off-the-shelf INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization

CRRC Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Craft IO Information Operations

CSAR Combat Search and Rescue IPTM Institute of Police Technology and Management

DEW Directed Energy Weapon IPW Interrogation of Prisoner of War

DLIFLC Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center IRS Internal Revenue Service

DMZ Demilitarized Zone ISAF International Security Assistance Force

DoD (also DOD) US Department of Defense ISR Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance
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Acronym/Abbreviation Definition Acronym/Abbreviation Definition

ISSEE International School for Security and Explosives Education NCO Non-commissioned Officer

ISTC International Special Training Centre (formerly called the NATO LRRP School) NCS Net Control Station

IW Information Warfare NROTC Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps

JFCC-ISR Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance, and NSTV Non-Standard Tactical Vehicle
Reconnaissance
NSW Naval Special Warfare; alternatively abbreviated as NAVSPECWAR
JFKSWCS John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
NTOA National Tactical Officers Association
JJIF Ju-Jitsu International Federation
NWTC Northern Warfare Training Center (US Army)
JOTC Jungle Operations Training Center (US Army)
OCONUS Outside the Contiguous United States
JSOC Joint Special Operations Command
OPFOR Opposing Force
JSOTF Joint Special Operations Task Force
OPINTEL Operational Intelligence
JSOTF-P Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines
OPSEC Operations Security
JSOU Joint Special Operations University
OSV Over-Snow Vehicle
JTIDS Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging
JWTC Jungle Warfare Training Center (USMC)
PSYOP Psychological Operations
LAAD Low-Altitude Air Defense
Recon Reconnaissance
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
RETRANS Retransmission
LCM Landing Craft, Mechanized
RHIB Rigid-Hull Inflatable Boat
LCU Landing Craft, Utility
ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps
LETSS Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival
RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
LLVI Low-Level Voice Intercept
RUTEX Realistic Urban Training Exercise
LRRP Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol
SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
LRRS Long Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Sea, Air, Land (US Navy personnel qualified in special warfare)
SEAL
LRS Long Range Surveillance SERE Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape
MAAWS Medium Anti-Armor Weapon System SF Special Forces
MAGTF Marine Air-Ground Task Force SFOD-A Special Forces Operational Detachment “A”
MEU Marine Expeditionary Unit SFOD-B Special Forces Operational Detachment “B”
MFO Multinational Force and Observers SFOD-C Special Forces Operational Detachment “C”
MNF-I Multi-National Force-Iraq SHARC Small Hydrographic/Area Reconnaissance Craft
MWTC Mountain Warfare Training Center (USMC) SIGINT Signals Intelligence

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization SME Subject Matter Expert

NAVSPECWAR Naval Special Warfare; alternatively abbreviated as NSW SOC Special Operations-Capable

NBC Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical SOCKOR Special Operations Command-Korea

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Acronym/Abbreviation Definition Acronym/Abbreviation Definition

SOCPAC Special Operations Command-Pacific USPACOM United States Pacific Command

SOF Special Operations Forces USSOCOM United States Special Operations Command

SONIC Source Operations & Intelligence Collection USSOUTHCOM United States Southern Command

SOTAC Special Operations Terminal Attack Controller USSTRATCOM United States Strategic Command

SPIE Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction USTRANSCOM United States Transportation Command

SRT Special Reaction Team UXO Unexploded Ordnance

STA Surveillance and Target Acquisition VAMP Variable Applications Mobility Platform

STEEL Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics VHF Very High Frequency

SWAT Special Weapons and Tactics VIPER Veteran Infantry Personnel

TACSAT Tactical Satellite WIT Weapons Intelligence Team

TC AIMS II Transportation Coordinators Automatic Information for Movement System II WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction

TENCAP Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities XO Executive Officer

TIGER Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance

UFMCS University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies

UHF Ultra-High Frequency

UIAA Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme

UN United Nations Organization

UNDPKO United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations

UNSCOM United Nations Special Commission

USA United States of America; also United States Army

USAF United States Air Force

USAFRICOM United States Africa Command

USARNG United States Army National Guard

USBATT US Infantry Battalion Contingent

USCENTCOM United States Central Command

USCG United States Coast Guard

USEUCOM United States European Command

USFK US Forces-Korea

USJFCOM United States Joint Forces Command

USMC United States Marine Corps

USN United States Navy

USNORTHCOM United States Northern Command

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Aeroscout Helicopter Pilot
Aircraft Commander
Aircraft Loadmaster
Ambulance Team Chief
CBRN Reconnaissance Scout
Chief Observer/Controller-Trainer
COLT Leader/Joint Fires Observer
Combat Observer/Joint Fires Observer
Command Administration Officer
Command Communications-Electronics Officer
Command Intelligence Officer
Command Logistics Officer
Command Operations Officer
Command Senior Enlisted Adviser
Commando Mortarman
Counterintelligence Agent
Counterintelligence Technical Officer
Countertracker/Rear Security Man
Cover Man
Criminal Anti-Terrorism Investigator
Operates aeroscout helicopter under tactical and non-tactical conditions. Performs aerial armed reconnaissance and route, zone, and/or area reconnaissance in
support of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations.
Aircrew member designated by competent authority as being in command of an aircraft and responsible for its safe operation and accomplishment of the mission.
Performs aircraft loading and offloading functions as well as pre-flight and post-flight examination of aircraft and aircraft systems. Computes weight and balance and
other mission-specific duties. Provides for safety passengers and troops, and security of cargo and baggage during flight. Conducts cargo and personnel airdrops.
Administers emergency medical treatment to battlefield casualties, trained in aeronautical medicine and all equipment associated with patient transport and rescue by
actual or designated medical evacuation vehicles (tracked or wheeled) and rotary-wing aircraft.
Conducts sensitive site exploitation, mitigation, escort and remediation processes of CBRN devices or hazards. Performs and supervises detection, identification,
decontamination, reconnaissance, surveillance, and survey and monitor operations associated with all aspects of CBRN defense.
Senior NCO tasked with the administrative control, task performance evaluation, and the provision of constructive feedback during training. Manages the conduct of
subordinate observer/controller-trainers and advises the training officer.
Leads the COLT in its role as an independent forward observer asset tasked with surveying key or vulnerable forward areas. Serves as the primary operator of the
Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder during target ranging and designation operations. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his team. Coordinates
with terminal attack controllers for close air support and with fires cells/fire support coordination cells for attack aviation and naval gun sections if needed. Trained to
call in indirect surface fires, naval surface fire support, and attack aviation close combat attacks. Must have attended the US Army or USMC Joint Fires Observer
Course or received equivalent training.
Functions as forward observer tasked with surveying key or vulnerable forward areas as a member of the COLT. Provides team security and serves as the secondary
Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder operator, combat net radio operator, and vehicle driver during target ranging and designation operations. Coordinates with
terminal attack controllers for close air support and with fires cells/fire support coordination cells for attack aviation and naval gun sections if needed. Trained to call in
indirect surface fires, naval surface fire support, and attack aviation close combat attacks. Must have attended the US Army or USMC Joint Fires Observer Course or
received equivalent training.
The principal staff officer for all matters concerning human resources support (military and civilian). Specific responsibilities include manning, personnel services,
personnel support, and headquarters management.
The principal staff officer for all matters concerning command, control, communications, and computer operations.
The principal staff officer for all matters concerning the enemy/threat, the environment as it affects the enemy/threat, intelligence, and counterintelligence. He/She is
responsible for intelligence readiness, intelligence tasks, intelligence synchronization, intelligence support, counterintelligence, and support to security programs.
The principal staff officer for logistic operations and plans, supply, maintenance, transportation, and services.
The principal staff officer for all matters concerning training, operations & plans, force development, and modernization.
The senior enlisted adviser to the director. Acts as the director’s representative in supervising aspects vital to agency operations.
Responsible for the tactical employment of the Arsenal M6C-210 60 mm commando mortar. Provides indirect covering fire in support of LRRS teams during exposed
retrograde movements.
Supervises and conducts counterintelligence surveys and investigations to detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit and neutralize adversarial, foreign intelligence
service, and terrorist threats to GIJOE activities.
Conducts investigations/operations by applying sound judgment and analytical reasoning methods to detect and prevent acts of espionage, sabotage, and terrorism
directed against GIJOE activities. Conducts and supervises both overt and covert investigations. Supervises the technical performance of subordinate military and
civilian personnel in related job skills. Develops, evaluates, and manages sources and informants of military intelligence.
Applies and advises on the use of evasion, camouflage, and deception techniques to keep an HVT Tracker Team from being detected during the conduct of manhunt,
search and rescue, and surveillance missions. Provides rear flank security for the HVT Tracker Team during team movement and withdrawal.
Responsible for the tactical employment of the M249 5.56 mm squad automatic weapon, the M60E4 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun, and the M2HB 12.7 mm
heavy machine gun. Provides direct small arms covering fire in support of LRRS teams during exposed retrograde movements.
Plans, organizes, conducts, and supervises overt and covert investigations. Examines and processes crime scenes, conducts sensitive site exploitation physical
evidence collection and preservation for scientific examination by crime laboratories and use in judicial proceedings. Obtains and executes arrest and search warrants.
Conducts raids in support of agency operations. Interviews and interrogates victims, witnesses, suspects, and subjects and obtains written statements executed under
oath. Develops, evaluates, and manages informants and other sources of criminal intelligence.
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Deception Operations Chief-Counterintelligence Provides counterintelligence threat estimates, studies, and reports. Conducts liaison with command staff for consolidation and coordination of deception tasking.

Deception Operations Chief-Engineering Produces, disseminates, and evaluates physical deception measures for supported elements. Prepares route, road, bridge, tunnel, ferry, and ford engineering reports
for deception operations. Advises supported units in camouflage and concealment techniques to increase OPSEC to support deception. Supervises, advises, and
assists in the fabrication of deception decoys, camouflage, and other activities.

Deception Operations Supervisor-Combat Arms Supervises deployment of personnel in offensive, defensive, and retrograde tactical deception operations. Evaluates terrain for deployment of deception equipment
and systems to include rocket and missile decoys and optical and electronic countermeasures. Supervises the construction of deception fortification and camouflage.

Deputy Director Assists the director in his/her duties and is authorized to exercise the director's powers in his or her absence. Synchronizes and integrates staff activities to optimize
control of agency operations.

Detachment Commander (SONIC Detachment) Manages all aspects of Source Operations & Intelligence Collection (SONIC) Detachment operations. Directs, supervises, and coordinates the planning, collection,
evaluation, fusion, analysis, production, and dissemination of all-source intelligence, HUMINT, and counterintelligence. Performs multi-disciplinary collection
management and coordination of surveillance activities and advises the office of the director and fellow element leaders on enemy situations, capabilities,
vulnerabilities, and weather and terrain, and the use and employment of intelligence resources.

Detachment Commander (STEEL Detachment) Manages all aspects of Security, Training, Encampment & Expeditionary Logistics (STEEL) Detachment activities. Supports agency operational requirements at all
levels of execution as concerns mission planning, development, and execution of tailored combat support and combat service support operations.

Detachment Commander (TIGER Detachment) Manages all aspects of Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment activities. Supports agency operational and tactical
requirements at all levels of execution as concerns mission planning, development, and execution of long-range surveillance and special reconnaissance operations.

Detachment Communications Chief Oversees all Detachment communications-electronics activities. Advises the Detachment Commander on all communications-electronics matters.

Detachment Executive Officer (TIGER Detachment) Responsible for the management of the Tactical Information Gathering & Expeditionary Reconnaissance (TIGER) Detachment's day-to-day activities, such as
maintenance and logistics, freeing the detachment commander to concentrate on tactical planning and execution. Performs the commander's duties in his absence.

Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser The senior NCO within a detachment. Advises the Detachment Commander concerning the enlisted ranks. Supervises aspects vital to detachment operations as the
commander's representative. Leads contingency-based special teams composed of detachment personnel as necessary

Detachment Supply Operations Supervisor Requests, receives, issues, stores, maintains, and turns in supplies and equipment for a detachment. Coordinates requirements with the detachment's senior enlisted
adviser. Monitors the operational situation with detachment command team members.

Digital Forensics Investigator Gathers digital evidence from captured adversary information systems, to include computers systems, digital storage media (such as portable hard drives), electronic
media (such as e-mails, word processor documents, and digital photographs), mobile devices (such as PDAs and cellular phones), and computer networks.

Director The highest-ranking official within the agency. Primary duties include overseeing the day-to-day operations of the agency and serving as an adviser to the Director of
National Intelligence, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Defense, and the President's Intelligence Advisory Board regarding time-sensitive
geopolitical intelligence matters related to counterterrorism and national security.

Driver Operates wheeled vehicles and equipment over varied terrain and roadways in support of non-reconnaissance/non-combat operations. Employs land navigation
techniques. Corrects or reports all vehicle deficiencies; supports mechanics where necessary. Prepares vehicle for shipment by air, rail, or vessel.

Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Explosives Uses and advises on the use of explosive breaching methods to give HVT Tracker Teams rapid access to barricaded targets. Provides flank security during HVT
Tracker Team movement and withdrawal.

Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Mechanical Uses and advises on the use of mechanical/brute force breaching methods to give HVT Tracker Teams rapid access to barricaded targets.

Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Thermal Uses and advises on the use of high-energy thermal cutting devices to give HVT Tracker Teams rapid access to barricaded targets.

Emergency Medicine Physician Examines, diagnoses, and treats or prescribes course of treatment for the initial phase of disease and injuries. A specialist in advanced cardiac life support, emergency
surgical procedures, trauma resuscitation, and management of other life-threatening situations.

Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent Investigates, detects, locates, marks, reports, and prepares protective works for foreign and domestic UXO. Performs in-place disposal of UXO; supports agency
manhunt missions, physical security activities, and intelligence gathering operations of first-seen foreign ordnance.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal NCO Locates, identifies, renders safe, and disposes of foreign and domestic conventional, biological, chemical, or nuclear ordnance and IEDs and large vehicle bombs;
conducts intelligence gathering operations of first-seen foreign ordnance; supports agency sensitive site exploitation and physical security activities.

Fire Support Coordinator Serves as a special staff officer tasked with planning for and coordinating supporting arms. Resolves conflicts regarding selection of targets and employment means.
Must be a graduate of the Joint Operational Fires & Effects Course.
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Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot Pilots fixed-wing ISR aircraft and commands its crew. Performs and supervises navigation and surveillance/reconnaissance. Directs sensor payload employment.

FLASH Gunner Responsible for the tactical employment of the M202A1 FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon) system. Provides direct incendiary and thermobaric covering fire in
support of LRRS teams during exposed retrograde movements.

HUMINT Collection Technical Officer Conducts and supervises tactical interrogation-related duties to include source operations. Supervises the performance of subordinate personnel in related job skills.
Develops and approves interrogation and document exploitation plans and missions. Develops and manages sources and informants of military intelligence.

HVT Tracker Team Leader Supervises and conducts small-unit high-value target tracking operations. Participates in manhunt mission planning and mission outcome analysis at the detachment-
level. Oversees the security, transportation, and administration of obtained targets. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his team.

Imaging Equipment Operator Operates electronic and film-based still image and video acquisition equipment in support of surveillance and intelligence/evidence gathering activities.

Interrogation & Strategic Debriefing Supervisor Conducts and supervises source operations, interrogations, and debriefings to collect information about enemy forces, strength, capabilities, vulnerabilities and
intentions, as well as potential battle areas.

LAAD System Operator Operates and performs maintenance on the 70 mm FIM-92 Stinger man-portable LAAD (Low-Altitude Air Defense) surface-to-air missile system.

Logistics Chief Coordinates, plans, conducts, and supervises agency logistics, embarkation, landing support, and encampment operations. Articulates the agency's logistics and
mobility requirements as defined by the agency director and the command logistics officer to cooperating agencies.

LRRS Team Leader Supervises and conducts mounted and dismounted reconnaissance and surveillance missions, specializing in small unit operations conducted up to 160 miles (257.5
km) forward of the front edge of the designated operational space. Serves as the team's lead battle damage assessor and collateral damage estimator. Participates in
mission planning and mission outcome analysis at the detachment-level. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his team.

MAAWS Gunner Responsible for the tactical employment of the 84 mm man-portable M3 Medium Anti-Armor Weapon System. Provides direct anti-armor covering fire in support of
LRRS teams during exposed retrograde movements.

Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Pilot Pilots medium fixed-wing utility aircraft and commands its crew. Performs, supervises, and directs navigation and payload delivery. Performs administrative and liaison
missions to transport passengers and cargo for agency purposes.

Medium Fuel Tanker Operator Responsible for the operation and maintenance of medium Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants vehicles. Performs vehicle checks and services, takes emergency
precautions affiliated with the operation of Fuel Tank Vehicles. Assists mechanics when necessary.

MGL Gunner Responsible for the tactical employment of the 40 mm Milkor MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher). Provides direct and limited indirect covering fire in support of LRRS
teams during exposed retrograde movements.

Military Deception Officer Exercises staff supervision over military deception activities. Provides expertise in, and manages information required for, the conduct of military deception operations.
Evaluates and assesses the execution of the deception plan.

Motor Vehicle Maintenance NCO Performs unit direct and general support-level maintenance and recovery operations on light and heavy wheeled vehicles, their associated trailers and material
handling equipment (MHE). Conducts battlefield damage assessment and repair. Oversees the work of subordinate mechanics.

Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section Chief Advises the Service Support Platoon Leader on all issues regarding the mechanical maintenance of agency motor vehicles. Performs and supervises unit direct and
general support-level maintenance and recovery operations on light and heavy wheeled vehicles, their associated trailers and material handling equipment (MHE).
Performs battlefield damage assessment and repair. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his section.

Motor Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor Performs and supervises unit direct and general support-level maintenance and recovery operations on light and heavy wheeled vehicles, their associated trailers and
material handling equipment (MHE). Performs battlefield damage assessment and repair. Assists the section chief in his managerial duties.

Non-Lethal DEW Operator Responsible for the tactical employment of non-lethal DEW systems such as the GLARE LA-9/P Non-Lethal Visual Disruption Laser, LRAD 100X Portable Loud
Hailer, and PHASR (Personnel Halting and Stimulation Response) rifle in support of LRRS teams during exposed retrograde movements. Advises team leaders on the
use of non-lethal DEW systems. Must be a graduate of the Inter-service Non-lethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course

NSTV Driver An expert in the operation of non-standard tactical vehicles over varied terrain and roadways for support of reconnaissance and surveillance operations. Employs land
navigation techniques. Reports vehicle deficiencies; supports mechanics where necessary. Prepares vehicle for shipment by air, rail, or vessel.

Ordnance Clearance Diver Performs underwater demolition activities and underwater ordnance location, identification, and in-place disposal in support of amphibious landings and coastal,
riverine, maritime, and underwater reconnaissance and surveillance operations. Trained in combat diving tactics and "wet jumping."

OSV Driver An expert in the operation of designated OSVs in snow-covered terrain in support of reconnaissance and surveillance operations. Employs land navigation and basic
cold weather survival techniques. Reports vehicle deficiencies; supports mechanics where necessary. Prepares vehicle for shipment by air, rail, or vessel.
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Position Summary of Duties & Responsibilities
Parachute Rigging Supervisor Oversees and conducts the packing and repair of cargo and personnel parachutes and the rigging of equipment and supply containers for airdrop or air delivery.

Platoon Chief (Physical Security Operations Platoon) Supervises physical security platoon operations and oversees platoon training. Specializes in the planning and interpretation of anti-terrorism/force protection
measures within agency installations. Recommends appropriate anti-terrorism/force protection plans. Serves as the Fort Wadsworth provost sergeant.

Platoon Leader (Intelligence & Surveillance Platoon) Commands the intelligence & surveillance platoon. Manages the intelligence and surveillance activities and supervises the movement control, planning, routing,
scheduling, controlling, and coordination of all units in the designated area of operations. Advises the SONIC Detachment Commander on intelligence and surveillance
as well as force protection matters.

Platoon Leader (Physical Security Operations Platoon) Commands the physical security platoon. Manages the force protection activities and supervises the movement control, planning, routing, scheduling, controlling, and
coordination of all units in the designated area of operations. Conducts synchronization and integration of logistics assets with other movement control teams in a full
spectrum of military operations. Serves as the Fort Wadsworth provost marshal.

Physical Security Operations Supervisor Supervises a five-person Physical Security Team that specializes in the planning, interpretation, and enforcement of physical security measures within installations as
well as performing personal security operations for high-ranking civilian and military personnel. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his team.

Reconnaissance Diver Conducts surface and underwater area and hydrographic reconnaissance missions in coastal, riverine, maritime, and underwater environments. Trained extensively in
special operations combat diving/swimming tactics and "wet jumping."

Recovery Vehicle Operator Operates tow trucks/wreckers in the performance of vehicle recovery, lifting, and towing operations.

Scout-Observer Conducts mounted and dismounted reconnaissance and surveillance missions, specializing in small unit operations conducted to 160 miles (257.5 km) forward of the
front edge of the designated operational space.

Scout-Sniper/Spotter Conducts close reconnaissance and surveillance/target acquisition operations in support of TIGER Detachment operations. As a secondary mission, delivers long
range, precision fire on selected targets from concealed positions in support of reconnaissance operations.

Section Leader (Composite Aerial Reconnaissance) Uses aviation subject matter expertise to conduct mission planning and to identify airspace coordination requirements. Responsible for coordinating the movement and
linkup of composite aerial reconnaissance section personnel deploying into the Source Operations & Intelligence Collection Detachment's forward area.

Security Man Provides security for the HVT Tracker Team's visual tracker during team movement and withdrawal.

Small Craft Coxswain An expert in the navigation and steering of small craft in support of amphibious landings and reconnaissance and surveillance operations conducted in coastal,
riverine, maritime, and underwater environments. Trained in small unit tactics, combat casualty care, and "wet jumping" with CRRCs and RHIBs.

Small Craft Maintenance Supervisor Establishes and enforces small craft maintenance section safety practices and supervises maintenance personnel. Oversees, instructs and provides technical advice
in the maintenance of small craft engines, electrical systems, fuel systems, power and drive trains, and other associated systems. Conducts section drills and training.
Organizes the training and work of the small craft maintenance section.

Special Projects Team Leader Supervises and conducts HUMINT collection, disinformation, and counter-sabotage missions, specializing in the employment of unconventional and non-traditional
civilian and paramilitary resources and modalities. Liaises with proprietaries and key operational agents. Participates in mission planning and mission outcome
analysis at the detachment-level. Manages the logistical and administrative needs of his team.

Special Projects Technician Conducts HUMINT collection, disinformation, and counter-sabotage missions, specializing in unconventional and non-traditional civilian and paramilitary resources and
modalities.

Surreptitious Building Entry Technician Accurately identifies and swiftly and silently neutralizes mechanically and digitally actuated locks and locking devices to give HVT Tracker Teams stealthy access to
targets located in buildings and similar structures.

Tracking Dog Handler Supports high-value target tracking activities through the employment of detection/tracking dogs. Assists in the apprehension and administration of targets by using
military working dogs as psychological deterrents.

Training Officer Develops and implements GIJOE's various training programs with the advice of the command staff and the chief observer/controller-trainer.

Transmission Operations Supervisor Responsible for the supervision of forward-deployed COMMO Station personnel in the installation, operation and maintenance of single channel HF, VHF, and
TACSAT radios, JTIDS network control stations, and special communication systems. Implements COMSEC, OPSEC, and physical security policies.

Treatment Team Chief Administers emergency medical treatment to battlefield casualties. Supervises activities of the field/mobile treatment facility. Able to supervise and train all critical skills
as noted by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

Visual Tracker Applies tactical tracking skills across a range of operational environments and tactical scenarios in support of manhunt, surveillance, and CSAR operations.
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aikido Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba that emphasizes the use of circular motions, throws, and joint trapping to redirect the force of the attacker rather than opposing it
head-on.

air assault The movement of friendly assault forces (combat, combat support, and combat service support) by rotary-wing aircraft to engage and destroy enemy forces or to seize and hold key
terrain.

airborne (1) In relation to personnel, troops specially trained to effect an assault debarkation, either by parachuting or touchdown; (2) in relation to equipment, pieces of equipment that have
been especially designed for use by airborne troops during or after an assault debarkation; (3) when applied to materiel, items that form an integral part of the aircraft.

airdrop The unloading of personnel or materiel from aircraft in flight.

all-source intelligence Intelligence products and/or organizations and activities that incorporate all sources of information, most frequently including human resources intelligence, imagery intelligence,
measurement and signature intelligence, signals intelligence, and open-source data in the production of finished intelligence.

anti-terrorism Defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts, to include limited response and containment by local military and civilian forces also

Arashikage-ryū bujutsū Tokyo-based martial arts school established by the brothers Tsuyoshi and Yuu Arashikage in 1949. Both founders reputed to be graduates of the legendary Nakano School of
espionage and sabotage. Disciplines emphasized in training include hojōjutsu (the capture and restraint of prisoners using snares and advanced rope tying techniques), kenjutsu
(swordsmanship), kyūjutsu (traditional archery), jujutsu (grappling, ground fighting, and joint trapping), monomi (observation and surveillance), and shurikenjutsu (the expert use of
small, hand-thrown projectiles in combat).

armed reconnaissance A mission with the primary purpose of locating and attacking targets of opportunity, i.e., enemy materiel, personnel, and facilities, in assigned general areas or along assigned
ground communications routes, and not for the purpose of attacking specific briefed targets. See also reconnaissance

assault (1) The climax of an attack, closing with the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting; (2) in an amphibious operation, the period of time between the arrival of the major assault forces of the
amphibious task force in the objective area and the accomplishment of the task force's mission; (3) to make a short, violent, but well-ordered attack against a local objective; (4) a
phase of an airborne operation beginning with delivery by air of the assault echelon of the force into the objective area and extending through attack of assault objectives and
consolidation of the initial airhead.

bājíquán A Northern Chinese martial art that features explosive, short-range strikes. Name can be loosely translated into English as “Eight Extremes Fist.”

biathlon Term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. In most contexts, the term is usually used to refer specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country
skiing and rifle shooting.

camouflage The field of military activities, tactics and equipment dealing with the disruption of an object's outline by blending its appearance with that of its surroundings.

casualty evacuation The emergency patient evacuation of injured people from a combat zone.

clandestine operation An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment. A clandestine operation differs from a covert
operation in that emphasis is placed on concealment of the operation rather than on concealment of the identity of the sponsor. In special operations, an activity may be both covert
and clandestine and may focus equally on operational considerations and intelligence-related activities.

close air support Air action by fixed and rotary-wing aircraft against targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and that require integration of each air mission with the fire and movement of
those forces.

combat arms A collective name in a system of administrative military reference to those troops within national armed forces which participate in direct tactical land combat. In the US Armed
Forces, they include infantry, armor, cavalry, artillery, and air defense artillery units.

combat diver Personnel specially trained in the use of open and closed circuit diving apparatus in horizontal diving missions such as coastal or ship infiltration and exfiltration, reconnaissance,
and search and rescue; also called combat swimmer.

combat engineering Those engineering capabilities and activities that support the maneuver of land combat forces and that require close support to those forces.

combat search and rescue The tactics, techniques, and procedures performed by forces to effect the recovery of isolated personnel during combat.

combat service support The essential capabilities, functions, activities, and tasks necessary to sustain all elements of operating forces in theater at all levels of war. Within the national and theater logistic
systems, it includes but is not limited to that support rendered by service forces in ensuring the aspects of supply, maintenance, transportation, health services, and other services
required by aviation and ground combat troops to permit those units to accomplish their missions in combat.

combat support The essential capabilities, functions, activities, and tasks necessary for the provision of fire support and operational assistance to combat elements. Combat support units provide
specialized support functions to combat units in the areas of chemical warfare, combat engineering, intelligence, security, and communications.

combatives The techniques and tactics useful to military personnel involved in hand-to-hand combat.
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command and control The exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission. Command and control
functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing,
coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the accomplishment of the mission.

commanding officer An officer in command of a military unit, installation, garrison, or bivouac.

commissioned officer Personnel who derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position.
Commissioned officers are typically the only persons, in a military environment, able to act as the commanding officer of a military unit.

communications (signals) The field of military activities, tactics and equipment dealing with the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of transferring information from one entity to another.

concealment Protective measures taken against observation and surveillance.

counter-sniper A sniper specially trained to detect and neutralize enemy snipers. See also sniper.

counterinsurgency Comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances.

counterintelligence Information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign
governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.

countersurveillance All measures, active or passive, taken to counteract hostile surveillance.

counterterrorism Operations that include the offensive measures taken to prevent, deter, preempt, and respond to terrorism.

countertracking Techniques used to avoid alerting the enemy to the tracker's presence.

covering fire (1) Fire used to protect troops when they are within range of enemy small arms; (2) in amphibious usage, fire delivered prior to the landing to cover preparatory operations such as
underwater demolition or mine countermeasures.

covert operation An operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. A covert operation differs from a clandestine operation in that
emphasis is placed on concealment of the identity of the sponsor rather than on concealment of the operation.

criminal intelligence Information gathered, analyzed, recorded/reported and disseminated by law enforcement agencies concerning types of crime, identified criminals and known or suspected criminal
groups.

deception Those measures designed to mislead the enemy by manipulation, distortion, or falsification of evidence to induce the enemy to react in a manner prejudicial to the enemy's interests.

demolition The planned and controlled destruction of structures, facilities, or material using explosive, incendiary, mechanical, or other means.

direct action Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialized
military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets.

direct fire The use of weapon systems to create a specific lethal or nonlethal effect on a target using the target itself as a point of aim for either the weapon or the director.

electronic warfare Military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum or to attack the enemy.

enlisted rank Any rank below a commissioned officer or warrant officer.

executive officer An officer responsible for the management of day-to-day activities, such as maintenance and logistics, freeing the unit commander to concentrate on tactical planning and execution.
The XO also takes charge in the absence of the commanding officer.

exfiltration The removal of personnel or units from areas under enemy control by stealth, deception, surprise, or clandestine means.

expeditionary (military force) A military unit designed for the conduct of military operations abroad on short notice in response to crises with forces tailored to achieve limited and clearly stated objectives.

explosive ordnance disposal The detection, identification, on-site evaluation, rendering safe, recovery, and final disposal of hazardous explosive devices

fire support The use of weapon systems to create a specific lethal or nonlethal effect on a target that directly support land, maritime, amphibious, and special operations forces to engage enemy
forces, combat formations, and facilities in pursuit of tactical and operational objectives.

force protection Preventive measures taken to mitigate hostile actions against Department of Defense personnel (to include family members), resources, facilities, and critical information. Force
protection does not include actions to defeat the enemy or protect against accidents, weather, or disease.
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forward observer An observer operating with front line troops and trained to adjust ground or naval gunfire and pass back battlefield information. In the absence of a forward air controller, the observer
may control close air support strikes.

free fall operations Airborne operations generally characterized by flight over the objective area at altitudes not normally associated with conventional parachute operations. Free fall parachuting is a
maneuver in which the parachute is manually activated at the discretion of the jumper or automatically at a preset altitude. In the HALO technique, the parachutist opens his
parachute at a low altitude after free-falling for a period of time, while in the HAHO technique, the parachutist opens his parachute at a high altitude just a few seconds after jumping
from the aircraft.

Gracie Barra jiu-jitsu Brazilian martial art founded by Carlos Gracie, Jr. that focuses on grappling and ground fighting. Derived from the Japanese martial art of Kodokan judo as taught by legendary
judoka Mitsuyo Maeda.

hand-to-hand combat An engagement between two or more persons with or without hand-held weapons such as knives, sticks, or projectile weapons within the range of physical contact.

helicopter rope suspension techniques Term for techniques and methods of rappelling, fast roping, Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) and Jacob’s Ladder operations. HRSTs were developed as a means to insert
and extract, by helicopter, ground forces (primarily reconnaissance teams) into or from rough terrain, urban areas or water, in situations where aircraft landings are impractical due to
terrain or tactical situation.

human intelligence The intelligence derived from the intelligence collection discipline that uses human beings as both sources and collectors, and where the human being is the primary collection
instrument. Also called human-resources intelligence.

imagery analysis The extraction of meaningful information from images. mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques.

indirect fire The use of weapon systems to create a specific lethal or nonlethal effect on a target that is not itself used as a point of aim for the weapons or the director.

individual augmentee A United States military member assigned to a unit for the purpose of filling in for, or augmenting, members of that unit. Individual Augmentees are differentiated from existing
members of that unit by the fact that they are assigned individually rather than as part of a traditional military organization (such as a brigade, battalion or company). Individual
Augmentees can be used to fill shortages or can be used when an individual with specialized knowledge or skill sets is required. As a result, Individual Augmentees can include
members from an entirely different branch of service.

infiltration (1) The movement through or into an area or territory occupied by either friendly or enemy troops or organizations. The movement is made, either by small groups or by individuals,
at extended or irregular intervals. When used in connection with the enemy, it implies that contact is avoided; (2) in intelligence usage, placing an agent or other person in a target
area in hostile territory. Usually involves crossing a frontier or other guarded line.

information operations The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in
concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting one's own.

information systems The entire infrastructure, organization, personnel, and components for the collection, processing, storage, transmission, display, dissemination, and disposition of information.

insurgency An organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict. Note that there is nothing inherent in the concept of
insurgency that requires the use of terrorism.

Intelligence (military) The product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially
hostile forces or elements, or areas of actual or potential operations. The term is also applied to the activity which results in the product and to the organizations engaged in such
activity.

judo Japanese martial art and combat sport developed by Kanō Jigorō in 1882 from the jujutsu (grappling) methods utilized by feudal era samurai warriors. Most prominent feature is its
competitive element, where the object is to throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to
submit by joint locking or by executing a choke. Most popular style is Kodokan judo, based on Jigorō's original teachings.

karate Okinawan martial art emphasizing punches, kicks, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as “knife-hands.” Gōjū-ryū, one the art's most popular variants, utilizes
a combination of “hard” and linear as well as “soft” and circular techniques.

Lacoste-Inosanto kali
A school of kali (term used to refer to the Filipino martial arts) established by former US Army paratrooper and Bruce Lee contemporary Dan Inosanto, Training centers on 12 areas
of focus: single stick/short sword/axe; double stick/short sword/axe; stick/short sword and dagger/shield; single dagger; double dagger; palm stick/double-ended dagger; empty hand
techniques (striking, grappling, and ground fighting); flexible weapons (flail weapons, whips, scarves, weighted ropes and chains); long weapons (polearm, long staff, oar); thrown
weapons (spears, throwing knives, throwing spikes, blinding powder); projectile weapons (archery, blowguns, slingshots); and mental/spiritual training (includes instruction in
practical Filipino folk medicine practices).

logistics Planning and executing the movement and support of forces. It includes those aspects of military operations that deal with: (1) design and development, acquisition, storage,
movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; (2) movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel; (3) acquisition or construction,
maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and (4) acquisition or furnishing of services.

Muay Thai Thai martial art and combat sport that emphasizes devastating strikes using the fists, elbows, knees, and feet. Also incorporates stand-up clinching and limited grappling.
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nán pài táng láng Southern Chinese martial art, name can be loosely translated to “Southern Praying Mantis.” Emphasis is placed on hand and arm techniques, and a limited use of low kicks in close
combat.

naval special warfare A designated naval warfare specialty that conducts operations in the coastal, riverine, and maritime environments. Naval special warfare emphasizes small, flexible, mobile units
operating under, on, and from the sea. These operations are characterized by stealth, speed, and precise, violent application of force.

non-commissioned officer An enlisted military member holding a position of some degree of authority who has obtained it by promotion from within the non-officer ranks.

operational intelligence Intelligence that is required for planning and conducting campaigns and major operations to accomplish strategic objectives within theaters or operational areas.

operations security A process of identifying critical information and subsequently analyzing friendly actions attendant to military operations and other activities to: (1) identify those actions that can be
observed by adversary intelligence systems; (2) determine indicators that adversary intelligence systems might obtain that could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical
information in time to be useful to adversaries; and (3) select and execute measures that eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level the vulnerabilities of friendly actions to adversary
exploitation.

paramilitary forces Forces or groups distinct from the regular armed forces of any country, but resembling them in organization, equipment, training, or mission.

physical security Measures used to provide physical protection of resources against deliberate and accidental threats.

provost marshal The officer in command of a confinement facility.

provost sergeant The senior NCO of a confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.

psychological operations Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of
foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the
originator's objectives.

reconnaissance A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or adversary, or to secure data
concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.

retransmission Replication of a signal at a repeater/rebroadcaster/broadcast translator/booster, or relay station

retrograde movement An organized movement to the rear away from the enemy. The force executes retrogrades to accomplish one or more of the following: (1) to disengage from combat; (2) to avoid
combat under undesirable conditions; (3) to draw the enemy into an unfavorable situation; (4) to gain time without fighting a decisive engagement; (5) to place friendly forces in a
more favorable position; and (6) to permit the use of a portion of the force elsewhere.

Ryūkyū kobujutsū The traditional weapons-based martial arts of the Japanese island of Okinawa (the former Ryūkyū kingdom). Weapons emphasized include the rokushakubo (long staff), tambo
(short staff), sai (dagger-shaped truncheon), tonfa (handled club), kama (sickle), nunchaku (two-section flail), tekko (fist-load weapon), tinbe-rochin (shield and short spear.), surujin
(weighted rope or chain), and eku (boat oar of traditional Okinawan design).

sensitive Requiring special protection from disclosure that could cause embarrassment, compromise, or threat to the security of the sponsoring power. May be applied to an agency,
installation, person, position, document, material, or activity.

sensitive site exploitation A related series of activities inside a captured sensitive site to exploit personnel documents, electronic data, and material captured at the site, while neutralizing any threat posed by
the site or its contents.

SFOD-A The basic SF unit. Also known as the "A Detachment" or "A Team". This twelve man unit is specifically designed to organize, equip, train, advise or direct, and support indigenous
military or paramilitary forces in unconventional warfare operations.

SFOD-B The SF company headquarters, also known as "B Detachment," is a multi-purpose C2 element.

SFOD-C The "C Detachment" provides command and control, and staff planning and supervision for SF battalion operations and administration.

Shorinji Kempo Contemporary Japanese martial arts school formally established by Doshin So in 1947, adapted from various Shaolin and other temple-based martial arts from China. Emphasizes
striking but also incorporates throws and joint trapping. Training has a significant religious and spiritual component rooted in Zen Buddhism.

small arms Man-portable, individual, and crew-served weapon systems used mainly against personnel and lightly armored or unarmored equipment.

sniper A highly trained marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. In addition to marksmanship, military snipers
are also trained in camouflage, infiltration, reconnaissance and observation techniques.

source operations The techniques and procedures performed by designated personnel related to the clandestine recruitment and handling of sources with access to vital foreign intelligence; also
referred to as core collection.
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special operations Operations conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to achieve military, diplomatic, informational, and/or economic objectives employing military capabilities
for which there is no broad conventional force requirement. These operations often require covert, clandestine, or low visibility capabilities. Special operations differ from
conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed
operational intelligence and indigenous assets.

special operations forces Those Active and Reserve Component forces of the military services designated by the Secretary of Defense and specifically organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and
support special operations.

special reaction team A specialized team or element within a military police unit that has been tasked with a level response to a high risk situation within a military base or compound. See also SWAT
team.

spotter An observer stationed for the purpose of observing and reporting results of gunfire to the firing agency and who also may be employed in designating targets.

state terrorism The use of force and terror by a state government against its own people, either a particular group or minority within the state or the entire population.

subject matter expert An individual who exhibits the highest level of expertise in performing a specialized job, task, or skill within an organization.

suppressive fire The use of weapon systems on or about an enemy weapons system to degrade its performance below the level needed to fulfill the enemy's objectives.

surveillance The monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner.

survival, evasion, resistance, and escape Actions performed by isolated personnel designed to ensure their health, mobility, safety, and honor in anticipation of or preparation for their return to friendly control.

SWAT team An elite tactical unit in American and some international law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations such as hostage rescues, counter-terrorism
operations, serving high risk arrest and search warrants, and engaging barricaded suspects/heavily-armed criminals.

tactical tracking The tactics, techniques, and procedures performed by forces to reestablish contact with the enemy; also called combat tracking.

taekwondo Korean martial art known for its emphasis on powerful kicking techniques. Most popular style is Kukkiwon taekwondo, which forms the basis for the Olympic Games taekwondo
event.

tai chi chuan Traditional Chinese martial art characterized by its deliberately slow, continuous, circular, well-balanced and rhythmic movements. Practiced in modern times as a means of
cultivating the qi, or chi (life-process), for perceived health benefits and spiritual insights.

target (1) An entity or object considered for possible engagement or other action; (2) in intelligence usage, a country, area, installation, agency, or person against which intelligence
operations are directed; (3) An area designated and numbered for future firing; (4) in gunfire support usage, an impact burst that hits the target.

target acquisition The detection, identification, and location of a target in sufficient detail to permit the effective employment of weapons.

targeting The process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response to them, taking account of operational requirements and capabilities.

Tatsumi-ryū Hyōhō kobujutsu Traditional school of Japanese martial arts founded in the early 16th century by Tatsumi Sankyo. Sub-disciplines include kenjutsu (swordsmanship), iaidō (sword-drawing), sōjutsu
(spear-fighting techniques), jujutsu (grappling, ground fighting, and joint trapping), hojōjutsu (the capture and restraint of prisoners using snares and advanced rope tying
techniques), and monomi (surveillance/observation).

terminal attack control The authority to control the maneuver of and grant weapons release clearance to attacking aircraft.

terrorism The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are
generally political, religious, or ideological.

tree jumping Low-altitude, static-line parachuting into heavily wooded and/or rough terrain environments.

unconventional warfare A broad spectrum of military and paramilitary operations, normally of long duration, predominantly conducted through, with, or by indigenous or surrogate forces who are organized,
trained, equipped, supported, and directed in varying degrees by an external source. It includes, but is not limited to, guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities,
and unconventional assisted recovery.

warrant officer A highly skilled, single-track specialty officer ranked as an officer above the senior-most enlisted ranks, as well as officer cadets and candidates, but below the commissioned officer
grade of O-1.

wet jumping Low, medium, and high-altitude parachuting into the open sea.

wing chun Southern Chinese martial art utilizing both striking and grappling while specializing in very close-range combat.
APPENDIX J: SAMPLE GIJOE PERSONNEL FILES
File Name: Abernathy, Clayton M.
DOB: 1967-04-02 POB: Denver, Colorado, USA
Call-Sign: Hawk Pay Grade: O–5
Duty Assignment: Command Operations Officer (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: SFOD-C (Command and Control), 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Military Art and Science (United States Military Academy), MS in Military Arts and Sciences (US Army School of Advanced Military Studies); Master of
Professional Studies, Strategic Leadership concentration (Austin Peay Center-Fort Campbell)

Relevant Training (partial list): Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic Course; Short-Range, Hawk Missile, and Patriot Missile Air Defense Artillery Resident Training; Air
& Missile Defense Captains Career Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Ranger School, SF Unit Officer Qualification Course, SFQC Individual Skills
Phase, SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, Command & General
Staff School, Joint Special Operations Irregular Warfare Advanced Course, Combined/Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander's Course, Army
Red Team Leaders Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation
Operations Course, CJFSOCC Staff Officer Course, CJFSOCC Planning Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Born into a prominent military family, father a highly decorated Army colonel, grandfather a sergeant major with the American Expeditionary
Forces. Graduated West Point at the top of his class, 1990. Went on several rotational deployments with ARCENT-SA's PATRIOT Task Force in Saudi Arabia
before going Special Forces in 1995. Took part in numerous missions in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2008 as a member of the 5 th Special Forces Group.
Served on part-time cadre at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, oversaw Red Team Leader exercises between 2006 and
2008. A widower (wife succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia in 2007) with a son, Scott, born in 2001. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Gulf Arabic, and Iraqi),
Persian (Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), and Russian; conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Portuguese, and Spanish. Recently rated as being in the 99th
percentile among all active-duty Department of Defense field grade officers in conventional, analytical, creative, and practical intelligence measures. Has a talent
for intentionally obscuring and willfully misrepresenting his dispositional affect, making him a preeminent negotiator and controller.

File Name: Arashikage, Kimiko

DOB: 1980-02-28 POB: Los Angeles, California, USA
Call-Sign: Jinx Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Counterintelligence Agent (Counterintelligence Team, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company (CI/HUMINT), 524th Military Intelligence Battalion, 501st Military Intelligence Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Economics (Bryn Mawr College), AA in Mandarin (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Financial Management Technician AIT, Counterintelligence Special Agent Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School,
Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Introduction to
Networks & Computer Hardware Course, Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Intel Course

Miscellaneous Notes: At the age of 12, sent by parents to live with relatives in Tokyo in an effort to instill discipline and a sense of culture. While abroad,
extensively studied her clan's traditional martial art, Arashikage-ryū bujutsū. Returned to the United States after graduating at the top of her class from the
Saitama Prefectural Inagakuen Comprehensive Upper Secondary School. Joined the Army as a financial management technician after receiving her
economics degree from Bryn Mawr in 2002. Re-classed as a counterintelligence agent in 2006, deployed to South Korea in support of USFK/CFC operations
as a member of the 524th Military Intelligence Battalion. Fluent in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin (Standard dialect);
conversant in Cantonese/Yue (Standard dialect). Also schooled in Ryūkyū kobujutsū. Spunky and energetic, but never lets her enthusiasm get the better of her
judgment.
File Name: Armbruster, Bradley J.
DOB: 1971-08-22 POB: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Ace Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Section Leader/Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot (Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Rhode Island); MS in Defense Analysis, Combat Systems subspecialty (Naval Postgraduate School)

Relevant Training (partial list): Private Pilot Certification (Cindtronix Aviation), Commercial Pilot Certification (Cindtronix Avaiation), Aerobatic Proficiency
Training Certification (Tutima Academy of Aviation), Officer Candidate School Basic Officer Training, Initial Flight Screening, USAF Specialized Undergraduate
Training, Transitional and Operational Flight Training (F-16C/D Fighting Falcon), USAF Weapons School (F-16C/D Fighting Falcon), Flight Commander
Course, Organizational Leadership Course, Expeditionary Leadership Course, Introduction to Special Operations Course, Squadron Officer School, SERE
Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO Air Integration and Planning Course, Mission Qualification Flight Training (MC-12W Liberty),
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Started flying in high school, working three jobs in order to afford lessons. After high school, worked for a year as a bush pilot in Alaska to
earn money for college. While enrolled in the University of Rhode Island, spent his free time training to be an aerobatic pilot; twice competed in the FAI Grand
Prix. Joined the USAF in 1996 after earning his degree in electrical engineering. As a member of the 22 nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, flew F-16C Fighting
Falcons on air interdiction and combat air patrol missions over Iraq in support of Operation Northern Watch in 1999, distinguishing himself in encounters
against Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat fighters (recording two kills) and numerous SA-6 surface-to-air missile batteries. Sent to Yugoslavia later that year for Operation
Allied Force. Downed two MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and a J-22 Orao in separate air combat incidents, bringing his kill total to five and earning fighter ace status.
Deployed to Southwest Asia in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, served on the same section as future GIJOE pilot Gregory Boyajian (call-sign:
Slipstream). Seeking new aviation challenges, volunteered for Project Liberty, a dedicated USAF intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance initiative.
Completed MC-12W Liberty mission qualification training in early 2009 at the top of his class. Flew the very first MC-12W Liberty combat sorties over Iraq in
the summer of 2009. An accomplished amateur poker player, Armbruster has competed in numerous poker fund-raising events for various charities.

File Name: Arndt, Philip W.

DOB: 1974-02-04 POB: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Free Fall Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 7-HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Philosophy (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale), MA in Comparative East-West Philosophy (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa)

Relevant Training (partial list): Aviation Operations Specialist AIT, Joint Air Tasking Order Process Course, Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School,
Air Assault School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Pathfinder School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military
Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, Military
Free Fall Parachutist Course, Special Operations Terminal Attack Controller Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course, Ranger School, Tactical Information Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 1996 after graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
Started his military career as an aviation operations specialist with the 82 nd Combat Aviation Regiment, deployed to Bosnia with the 2 nd Battalion in support of
Operation Joint Guard (1997). After fulfilling his term of service, went back to school to earn his master's degree in comparative east-west philosophy. Re-enlisted
in 2004 and re-trained as an infantryman, eventually joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment in 2005. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2006 through 2008, where he would
participate in numerous special operations in the country's southeastern provinces in support of CJSOTF-A and ISAF objectives. Fluent in Mandarin (Standard
dialect), conversant in Cantonese/Yue (Standard dialect) and Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects). Highly intelligent and strongly motivated individual, never short on
self-confidence. Conducts himself with a swagger that borders on arrogance, but GIJOE teammates know that he has the knowledge, skills, and experience to
back it up.
File Name: Ayvazyan, Varujan
DOB: 1971-01-15 POB: Sultanbeyli, Istanbul Province, Turkey
Call-Sign: Taurus Pay Grade: GS–09
Duty Assignment: Special Projects Technician (Special Projects Team, SONIC Detachment)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Terrorism and Violent Crimes Division, United States National Central Bureau of INTERPOL
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Security Sciences (Güvenlik Bilimleri Enstitüsü-Polis Akademisi Başkanlığı), AAS in Chemical Technology (Essex County College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Pre-Undergraduate Police Training Program (Polis Akademisi Gölbaşı), Basic Police Special Operations Course (Özel Harekat
Polis Okulu), Komando Tugayı Military Mountaineering training, Komando Tugayı Airborne cross-training, INTERPOL International Police Training Program,
ISSEE Search and Security Foundation Course, ISSEE Search and Security Advanced Searcher Course, ISSEE High Risk Search Course, ISSEE EOD Level
1 Course, ISSEE EOD Level 2 Course, ISSEE EOD Level 3 Course, ISSEE IED Awareness Course, ISSEE IED Technician Course, ISSEE Booby Traps
Course, Program in American Language Studies (Rutgers University-Newark), English for Academic Purposes Course (Rutgers University-Newark), GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Born and raised in Istanbul Province to Turkish-Armenian parents. Overcame cultural and ethnic barriers to become a ranking police
officer with the Istanbul Police Department's Special Security office. Served with distinction in numerous police special operations against the PKK and other
radical paramilitary and designated terrorist organizations. Cross-trained in military mountaineering and parachuting as part of an exchange program with the
Turkish Army's 1. Komando Tugayı (1st Commando Brigade) in Kayseri province. Received extensive explosive ordnance disposal training at the International
School for Security and Explosives Education. Hired by INTERPOL as a dangerous devices technician in 2000, immigrated to the United States on a National
Interest Waiver visa in 2001. Worked as a weapons intelligence analyst with INTERPOL's American bureau before being recruited to join a fledgling GIJOE in
2009. Fluent in Armenian (Eastern and Western dialects), Kurdish, and Turkish; conversant in Arabic (Iraqi) and Georgian. Became a naturalized American
citizen in 2007. Avid practitioner and promoter of kılıç kalkan (traditional Turkish fencing) and has performed public demonstrations of the martial art as part of
the Turkish Cultural Center in New York's annual “Performing Arts at the Terminal” show.

File Name: Barney, James J.

DOB: 1976-03-21 POB: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA
Call-Sign: Grand Slam Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: COLT Leader/Joint Fires Observer (Combat Observation & Lasing Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Physics (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Relevant Training (partial list): Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE) Maintenance Support Specialist AIT; Fire Support Specialist AIT,
Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) Transition Course, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School, Joint Fires Observer Course, Tactical
Information Operations Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was a star quarterback for his high school football team, led them to back-to-back state championship appearances. Injuries prevented a
similarly successful college football career, joined the Army almost immediately after graduation. Served as a TDME Maintenance Support Specialist assigned
to the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service before switching to a career in the artillery. Went on three deployments to Iraq between 2003 and 2005 as a
forward observer assigned to A Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), where his natural aptitude for judging distances served him well in
his duties. Soft-spoken but firm, well-liked by subordinates, peers, and superiors. Never loses track of his mission's objectives in even the most stressful of
conditions. A lifelong fan of escapist fiction, owns an extensive collection of vintage comic books and science fiction paperbacks and magazines dating back to
the 1930s, spends his free time scouring hobbyist shops and internet auction sites for pieces to add to his ever-growing assortment of fantastic literature.
File Name: Blais, Robert M.
DOB: 1981-07-16 POB: Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Call-Sign: Cross-Country Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Motor Vehicle Maintenance NCO (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 296th Brigade Support Battalion (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Heavy Equipment and Transport Technology (Guilford Technical Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Freight Traffic Course, Installation Traffic Management Course, Defense Advanced Traffic
Management Course, Passenger Travel Specialist Course, Wheel Vehicle Mechanic AIT, Automotive Electrical Systems Repair Course, Wheel Vehicle
Recovery Specialist Course, Defense Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Mechanical Maintenance NCO Common Core Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Both parents career construction and asphalt equipment operators. Declined stewardship of the family business and joined the Army in
2003. Served as a truck driver with the 7 th Transportation Battalion, deploying on a tour of Southwest Asia before re-classing as a wheel vehicle mechanic in
2006. Assigned to the 296th Brigade Support Battalion, deployed to Iraq in 2007 in support of the 2nd Infantry Division's 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. Has
excellent driving instincts and a natural mechanical aptitude honed through a lifetime in and around heavy machinery and diesel-powered vehicles. Openly
proud of his family's Confederate heritage (great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side was a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia), to the occasional
chagrin of some of his more sensitive and politic GIJOE teammates. Sentimental political differences aside, teammates know that he can be trusted to perform
his duties to the letter, with the utmost efficiency and professionalism.

File Name: Blanchet, John

DOB: 1975-10-10 POB: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Call-Sign: Topside Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Small Craft Coxswain (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Boat Team 12, Naval Special Warfare Group FOUR (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Engineering (San Diego City College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Engineman "A" School, Caterpillar Diesel Technician Training, MTU Diesel Technician Training, Outboard Engine Mechanic Training,
ALCO & General Motors EMD Diesel Engine Technician Training; Non-Compliant Boarding Visit, Board, Search & Seizure (NCB VBSS) Course; Fairbanks Morse &
Colt Pielstick Diesel Engine Technician Training, SWCC Basic Crewman Training, NAVSPECWAR Crewman Qualification Training, Basic Tactical Swimmer Course,
Basic Airborne School, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Air Assault School, Camp Michael Monsoor Special Reconnaissance Training, Tactical Rope Suspension
Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Advanced Tactical
Swimmer Course, SCUBA Diver Qualification, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Grew up on a small Indiana farm where he helped his father raise prize-winning pigs. Quickly gained a reputation as one-half of Fort Wayne's
premier hog breeding duo after winning numerous county fairs. Enlisted in the Navy in 2001 in search of a different career path, feeling that he had done all that he
wanted in the field of stockbreeding. Assigned to the Naval Beach Group ONE's Assault Craft Unit 1 after graduating from Engineman “A” School. Served aboard an
LCU-8 during various joint training exercises and humanitarian relief operations along the South American Pacific coast in 2002. Participated in oil-platform defense,
non-compliant vessel boarding, and amphibious assault landing operations in the Persian Gulf in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Took part in
humanitarian and emergency relief operations along the US Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Joined NAVSPECWARCOM as a Special-Warfare
Combatant Crewman in 2006. Participated in maritime interdiction exchange training with Philippine Navy special operations units in Bangsamoro waters, early 2007.
Took part in relief and rescue operations in San Diego County during the Southern California wildfires of 2007. Possesses a knack for mechanical improvisation and
invention. Never one to back down from a challenge, frequently engages GIJOE teammates in one-upmanship contests of physical strength and toughness.
File Name: Bowman, Thomas S.
DOB: 1969-11-12 POB: Denver, Colorado, USA
Call-Sign: Mace Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Counterintelligence Agent (Counterintelligence Team, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Expeditionary Support Branch, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Criminal Justice and Criminology (Metropolitan State College of Denver), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Basic Recruit Training (Denver Police Academy), Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training Qualification, MAGTF
Intelligence Specialist Entry Course, Intelligence in Combating Terrorism Course, MAGTF Counterintelligence/HUMINT Course, Technical Surveillance
Countermeasures Fundamentals Course, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Course, Advanced Personnel Administration Course, Defense Strategic
Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Introduction to Networks & Computer Hardware Course,
Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, NATO SOF Intel Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Orphaned at the age of 12, both parents killed in a skiing accident in Aspen. Raised by an uncle, a former Marine and Colorado state
trooper. Entered the Denver police force after receiving his degree in criminal justice. Worked for five years as a beat cop before joining the Marines in
1997. Opted for a career in the intelligence field, spent his initial term of service as an intelligence specialist with the 2 nd Marine Division. Re-trained as a
counterintelligence special agent in 2002. As an agent for the MCIA's Expeditionary Support Branch, has served on numerous missions abroad, most
recently in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Gulf Arabic, and Iraqi) and Persian (Dari and Farsi
dialects), conversant in Spanish.

File Name: Boyajian, Gregory S.

DOB: 1979-05-13 POB: Provo, Utah, USA
Call-Sign: Slipstream Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot (Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Computer Engineering (University of Utah), MS in Computer Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): AFROTC General Military and Professional Officer Courses, Initial Flight Screening, USAF Specialized Undergraduate Training,
Transitional and Operational Flight Training (F-16C/D Fighting Falcon), USAF Weapons School (F-16C/D Fighting Falcon), Flight Commander Course,
Organizational Leadership Course, Expeditionary Leadership Course, Squadron Officer School, Mission Qualification Flight Training (MC-12W Liberty), GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: An avid video game player and computer enthusiast before discovering recreational flying in his mid-teens. Joined the Civil Air Patrol as a
cadet at the age of 16, eventually going to the University of Utah on an AFROTC scholarship. Flew F-16C/D Fighting Falcons on combat air patrol missions over
Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 to 2007 as a member of the 332 nd Air Expeditionary Wing's 22nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron alongside celebrated fighter ace
and future GIJOE Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section Leader Bradley Armbruster (call-sign: Ace), who would cultivate a mentor-student relationship with
the younger Boyajian. Following Armbruster's lead, volunteered for MC-12W Liberty mission qualification training in early 2009. Flew the 362 nd Expeditionary
Reconnaissance Squadron's first MC-12W Liberty ISR aircraft in sorties over Iraq in the summer of 2009. Has a reputation among GIJOE teammates as an
unrepentant joker and mimic, and is the acknowledged base “Street Fighter IV” (video game) champion. Fluent in Armenian (Eastern and Western dialects),
French (Metropolitan/Standard), and Greek.
File Name: Breckenridge, Matthew H.
DOB: 1979-08-31 POB: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Call-Sign: Thunder Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Combat Observer/Joint Fires Observer (Combat Observation & Lasing Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Air Assault) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Music, General (Jefferson Community and Technical College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Army Bandsperson (Percussion) AIT, Air Assault School, Fire Support Specialist AIT, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data
System (AFATDS) Transition Course, Basic Airborne School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Joint Fires Observer
Course, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
Rappel Master Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Played drums for various Lousville-area heavy metal bands throughout high school and college. Joined the army as a bandsperson in
2001. Played percussion with the 101st Airborne Division Band (“Pride of the Eagle”) for four years before making the somewhat unusual decision to re-class
into a combat arms branch. Deployed to Iraq in 2007 for a 15 month long deployment, participating in missions in Salah ad Din governorate as a forward
observer assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. An import racer scene enthusiast in his spare time, owns a heavily modified and
extensively tuned 1995 Nissan Skyline GT-R coupe.

File Name: Brown, Eliot

DOB: 1977-09-18 POB: Collierville, Tennessee, USA
Call-Sign: Fast Draw Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Disposal NCO (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 744th Ordnance Company, 63rd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Accountancy (Shelby State Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Multiple Launch Rocket System Crewmember AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, EOD Specialist AIT, EOD
Advanced Access & Disablement Course, EOD Advanced Management & Technology Course, Technical Escort Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as a warehouse/data entry clerk at the FedEx Corporation headquarters in Memphis before joining the Army in 2002. Initially
trained as a multiple launch rocket system crewman. Deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom as a member of 1 st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery
Regiment. Considered leaving the active-duty service after fulfilling the initial terms of his active-duty contract in 2006, but admits that mounting financial
hardships at home, where his immediate family was hit hard by the beginning subprime mortgage crisis, made it easier for him to decide on re-enlisting,
choosing re-training as an EOD specialist primarily because of the specialty's significant signing and seasonal bonuses. Soon found EOD work to be
genuinely fulfilling as a career choice and not simply as a means of employment. Sent to Afghanistan in 2008 as a member of a small EOD detachment
supporting ISAF operations in Kandahar province. Has incredible manual dexterity and physical endurance, approaches the task of explosive ordnance
handling and disposal with supreme confidence in his ability to overcome any and all obstacles.
File Name: Burns, Matthew
DOB: 1970-08-27 POB: Parris Island, South Carolina, USA
Call-Sign: Sgt. Slaughter Pay Grade: E–8 (MSgt)
Duty Assignment:: Chief Observer-Controller/Trainer (Training Cadre, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Operations Training Group-MEU(SOC) Training Branch, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Psychology (University of South Carolina)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Combatant Diver Course, Basic Airborne School, Infantry Squad
Leaders Course, MEU(SOC) Certification Joint Training, Fast Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master
Course, Drill Instructor School, Water Safety/Survival Instructor Course, Advanced Personnel Administration Course, Tactical Information Operations Course,
Marksmanship Coach Course, Martial Arts Instructor Course, Martial Arts Instructor-Trainer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior
NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from a Marine family, father a retired infantry gunnery sergeant, mother a former air traffic controller. Reputation as a marine and
drill instructor has reached near-mythic proportions in 18 years in the Corps, something he has been more than willing to cultivate and perpetuate by playing
the part of the hulking and unfeeling drill instructor to the hilt in public appearances. Behind all his outward bluster and theatrics, possesses a brilliant tactical
mind that he has put to use as a member of the 2 nd Reconnaissance Battalion, participating in missions on four continents. Transferred to the II Marine
Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group's Special Operations Training Group-MEU(SOC) Training Branch in 2004. Conversant in French (Metropolitan/
Standard)and Spanish.

File Name: Colby, Everett P.

DOB: 1962-07-24 POB: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Call-Sign: Keelhaul Pay Grade: O–6
Duty Assignment: Deputy Director (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Operations Department, Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron TWO, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 10 (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Electrical Engineering (USNA), BS in Intelligence (National Defense Intelligence College), MS in Information Operations-Joint Information Operations
Curriculum (Naval Postgraduate School)

Relevant Training (partial list): Flight Screening, Aviation Preflight Indoctrination, Primary Flight Training, Intermediate and Advanced Flight Training (Land-Based
Syllabus, P-3/EP-3 Maritime Pipeline), SERE Level-C Training, Command and Staff Officer Program, Introduction to Special Operations Course, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Joint Maritime Operations Course, Strategy & War Course, National Security Decision-Making Course, Maritime Staff Operators
Course, NATO Air Integration and Planning Course, Special Operations Combating Terrorism Course, Combating Terrorist Networks Seminar, NATO SOF Intel
Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, NATO Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Intelligence Leaders
Orientation Seminar, Antiterrorism Evasive Driving Course-Senior Officer, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: As a member of FAIRECONRONTWO, flew reconnaissance aircraft in support of airstrike and air patrol missions during Operation El Dorado
Canyon (1986), Operation Desert Storm (1991), Operation Deny Flight (1993) and Operation Joint Endeavor (1995). Awarded the Air Medal for his actions in
Albania during Operation Silver Wake (1997), using his EP-3E Aries SIGINT reconnaissance aircraft in an emergency evacuation of American citizens, non-
combatants, and designated third-country nationals while under heavy small arms and anti-aircraft fire. Served as a FAIRECONRONTWO operational detachment
commander in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2004. Appointed FAIRECONRONTWO Operations Department head in 2005. Fluent in Russian, conversant in French
(Metropolitan/Standard), German, and Spanish. A nationally ranked amateur chess player (USCF rating of 2100), placed third in the under 2200 category during
the 2007 USCF National Open Chess Championship. Plays the clarinet as a hobby.
File Name: Colombani, Cyril
DOB: 1981-05-17 POB: Los Angeles, California, USA
Call-Sign: Skidmark Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Driver (Physical Security Operations Platoon Headquarters, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 89th Transportation Company (Medium Truck), 6th Transportation Battalion (Truck), 7th Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Art History (University of California-Los Angeles)

Relevant Training (partial list): Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Freight Traffic Course, Installation Traffic Management Course, Defense Advanced Traffic
Management Course, Passenger Travel Specialist Course, Anti-terrorism Evasive Driving-Staff Driver Course, Military Standard Transportation & Movement
Procedures Course, Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3) Training; Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade-and-Below (FBCB2) Software
Familiarization Training; Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Camp Adder Combat Logistical Patrol (CLP) Academy Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A model student throughout high school, where he graduated as the class salutatorian. Spent much of his free time in college volunteering for
the American Red Cross and helping out at various homeless shelters and abandoned pet rescue centers in the Greater Los Angeles area. Only blemish in his civilian
record were a succession of speeding violations (promptly and duly paid) compiled within a twelve months of receipt of his driver's license at the age of sixteen.
Joined the Army in 2004. Deployed to Iraq as a member of the 6th Transportation Battalion (Truck) in 2006 and again in 2008. Extremely well-groomed and courteous,
even by the strictest of military standards. A stickler for Army and GIJOE regulations and details, quickly earned an unflattering reputation as a “locker-room lawyer”
among teammates. Personal habits stand in stark contrast to his behavior behind the wheel of agency vehicles, where a single-minded dedication to ensuring
passenger security, adhering to timetables, and the accomplishment of the transportation mission overrides his personal preoccupation with decorum and propriety.

File Name: Colton, Joseph B.

DOB: 1955-06-01 POB: Central Falls, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Eagle-Eye Pay Grade: ES Level IV
Duty Assignment: Director (Office of the Director, C2E)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Foreign Area Studies, Eurasia concentration (United States Military Academy), MS in Military Arts and Sciences (US Army School of Advanced Military
Studies), PhD in International Relations, Strategic Studies concentration (Johns Hopkins University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantry Officer Basic Course, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Air
Assault School, Ranger School, Infantry Mortar Platoon Leaders Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course, SF Unit Officer Qualification Course, SFQC Individual
Skills Phase, SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, NATO LRRP School Patrol Course, US Army Red Team Leaders Course,
Contemporary Insurgent Warfare Course; Joint, Interagency, & Multinational Planner's Course; Security Cooperation Management Overseas Course, Command &
General Staff School, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, General
Officer/Senior Executive Service Force Integration Course, Combating Terrorism Executive Interagency Seminar, Joint Special Operations Staff Officer Course,
CJFSOCC Planners Course, CJFSOCC Joint Operations Center Course, CJFSOCC Commanders Course, Defense Security Assistance Management Overseas
Course, Antiterrorism Evasive Driving Course-Senior Officer, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Started his career as a lieutenant with the 101st Airborne Division. Made the move to SF in 1983, assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 10th SFG. Helped
train Lebanese soldiers in 1985 and Nigerian paratroopers in 1986. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the Battle of Khafji (1991). Served
as a member of a Coalition Support Team assisting the 1 st Belgian Para-Commando Battalion during Operation Restore Hope (1993). Retired from the Army with the
rank of colonel in early 2001. Started working towards his PhD in International Relations at Johns Hopkins that same year. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Modeling
Adaptive Organizations in the Current Irregular Warfare Context," is considered a modern classic in military science. An associate professor in MIT's Political Science
Department before being tapped to head GIJOE in 2008. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Gulf Arabic, and Levantine), French (Metropolitan/Standard), Russian,
and Turkish; conversant in German, Spanish, Swahili, and Uzbek. Married future GIJOE Command C-E Officer Jane A. Martell (call-sign: GI Jane) in 1983, divorced in
2004. Couple had one son, Joseph, Jr., killed during the Battle of Nasiriyah in Iraq in 2003 while serving with the Army's 3 rd Infantry Division.
File Name: Costello, Ian F.
DOB: 1981-05-14 POB: Madawaska, Maine, USA
Call-Sign: Avalanche Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/OSV Driver (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: D Company, Anti-Terrorism Battalion, 4th Marine Division (USMC/MARFORRES)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Automotive Technology (Northern Maine Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, USMC Designated Marksman School, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Fast Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master
Course, MWTC Mountain Survival Course, MWTC Animal Packers Course, MWTC Scout Skier Training, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Basic
Airborne School, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Parents and older siblings involved in the cross-border smuggling trade, primarily bringing in cigarettes into New Brunswick province in
Canada while ferrying cheap medicines into Maine. Somehow managed to steer clear of any significant legal trouble despite growing up around various
criminal influences. Sent by state social services to live with relatives in Presque Isle at the age of 15. Worked briefly as an automobile mechanic before joining
the Marines in 2002. Deployed to Afghanistan's Orūzgān province as a member of 1st Battalion, 6th Marines in 2004. Sent to Al Anbar province in Iraq the
following year, taking part in full-spectrum combat and nation-building operations. Assigned to an active-duty instructor-inspector staff post with the
MARFORRES Anti-Terrorism Battalion's Alaska-based D Company in 2007. An excellent marksman and an even better over-snow vehicle operator. Fluent in
French (Acadian dialect).

File Name: Craig, Judith F.

DOB: 1970-06-24 POB: Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Call-Sign: Shooter Pay Grade: E–8 (1SG)
Duty Assignment: Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser (Detachment Command Team, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Activities Division, JFCC-ISR (USSTRATCOM)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in History, minor in Religion (Montclair State University), BS in Intelligence (National Defense Intelligence College), AA in Arabic (Defense Language
Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Chaplain Assistant AIT, Emergency Medical Ministry Course, Chapel Tithe and Offering Clerk Course, Counterintelligence
Special Agent Course, Intelligence in Combating Terrorism Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation
Course, Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, USAF Counter-sniper School, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO
SOF Intel Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 1992 after graduating from Montclair State. Started her military career as a chaplain assistant assigned to the
743rd Military Intelligence Battalion. Re-classed as a counterintelligence agent in 1998. Assigned to the 311 th Military Intelligence Battalion, deployed to
Afghanistan in 2002 as a member of Task Force Rakkasan. Sent to Iraq in 2003, participated in counterintelligence and strategic debriefing operations in
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Joined the JFCC-ISR's Special Activities Division in 2006. Participated in numerous clandestine target development,
counterintelligence, and force protection operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and Turkey, 2007–2009. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Iraqi,
and Levantine), French (Metropolitan/Standard), Hebrew, and Spanish; conversant in Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), Swahili, and Turkish. Wholly dedicated
to her work, relentless and uncompromising in the pursuit of assigned operational objectives, even at the risk of great personal cost.
File Name: Davis, Brian R.
DOB: 1977-04-22 POB: Panama City, Florida, USA
Call-Sign: Blaster Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Small Craft Maintenance Supervisor (Service Support Platoon Small Craft Maintenance Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Riverine Squadron 1, Riverine Group ONE (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering (Florida International University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Engineman "A" School, Caterpillar Diesel Technician Training, MTU Diesel Technician Training, Outboard Engine Mechanic
Training, ALCO & General Motors EMD Diesel Engine Technician Training, Fairbanks Morse & Colt Pielstick Diesel Engine Technician Training, Riverine
Combat Skills Course, Riverine Crewman Course, Riverine Environment Patrol Craft Operations Course, Patrol Craft Weapons Maintenance Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Fascination with diesel engine mechanics started at an early age, built a fully-functioning diesel-powered hovercraft from a mail-order kit
at the age of thirteen. Graduated magna cum laude with a degree in mechanical engineering from Florida International. Worked briefly for the Panama City-
based Eastern Shipbuilding Group before deciding to join the Navy under the Advanced Enlistment Program in 2003. Initially assigned to the newly established
Riverine Group ONE after graduating from engineman “A” School. Deployed to Iraq in 2007, took part in riverine security patrols along the Euphrates River and
associated waterways in the vicinity of the city of Haditha.

File Name: Delgado, Hector

DOB: 1973-03-06 POB: Chula Vista, California, USA
Call-Sign: Shipwreck Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Reconnaissance Diver (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: SEAL Team 4, Naval Special Warfare Group TWO (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Structural Engineering (University of California-San Diego)

Relevant Training (partial list): Gunner's Mate "A" School, 5”/54-Caliber MK 45 MOD 2 Gun Mount Maintenance Course, Crew-Served Weapons Instructor Course,
Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL training, SEAL Qualification Training, SEAL Professional Development Phase Training, SEAL Unit Level Training, SEAL
Squadron Integration Training, Basic Airborne School, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Desert Environmental Survival Course, Camp Michael Monsoor
Mountain Warfare Training, Camp Michael Monsoor Special Reconnaissance Training, Air Assault School, Tactical Rope Suspension Technician Certification &
Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF
Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Orphaned at an early age, raised by a spinster aunt. Spent his teens working odd jobs in the San Diego docks. Joined the Navy immediately
out of high school, served on the USS Yorktown (CG-48) as a gunner's mate, participating in counter-drug operations in the Caribbean during the early 1990s and
was part of the crew that scored a then-record 101 during the ship's 1994 Naval Gun Fire Support qualification exercise. Separated from the Navy long enough to
earn his engineering degree from UCSD. Re-enlisted in 1999, joined NAVSPECWAR in 2000. Took part in joint UNITAS security and counter-terrorism exercises in
2001 and 2002. Participated in numerous special operations in Iraq, most notably the capture of the Al Basrah and Khawr Al Amaya oil terminals and special
security patrols in the the area of the Mukarayin dam in 2003. Operated in-country through 2004. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 through to 2008, performed
armed reconnaissance patrols along the country's Arghandab, Helmand, and Amu Darya rivers in support of CJSOTF-A units, engaging smugglers and Taliban
forces in combat on several occasions. Fluent in Spanish. Humorously obstreperous and decidedly idiosyncratic (his keeping of a trained Cuban Amazon
companion parrot is only one of his many personal quirks). Is an otherwise peerless professional in the field, skilled in all aspects of naval special warfare.
File Name: Delisi, Samuel C.
DOB: 1974-01-24 POB: Poteau, Oklahoma, USA
Call-Sign: Drop Zone Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 7-HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Social Science, History concentration (Campbell University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School, SFQC
Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS Qualification Phase (SF Weapons Sergeant), SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training;
Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; Operations and Intelligence Course, Advanced Special Operations
Techniques Training, Combat Lifesaver Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, SF Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Basic Instructor Course, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, Military Free Fall
Jumpmaster Course, Rappel Master Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course,
NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Weaponeering Applications Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from a family with a strong military tradition, father a Vietnam War veteran who saw some of the conflict's most intense fighting as
a member of the the 8th Infantry Regiment, maternal grandfather was a Navy submariner who saw action in the Pacific theater during World War II. Joined the
Army out of high school in 1992. Took part in Operation Gothic Serpent (1993) in Somalia as a member of 2 nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment (Light).
Deployed to the Balkans in 1997 as part of a US Army/NATO peacekeeping contingent. Went Special Forces in 1998, assigned to the 10 th Special Forces
Group. Participated in clandestine combat search and rescue and manhunt operations in Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia in 2000 and 2001. Deployed to
Afghanistan as a member of a joint CIA/10th Special Forces Group task unit in 2003. Transferred to the 1 st Special Warfare Training Group in 2006 where he
served as an instructor at the Military Free Fall School until his selection for GIJOE. Fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; conversant in Arabic
(Modern Standard and Iraqi), Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.

File Name: Divljak, Robert S.

DOB: 1968-07-02 POB: Albany, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Sgt. Savage Pay Grade: E–9 (CSM)
Duty Assignment: Command Senior Enlisted Adviser (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion (Assault), 101st Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Public Management, minor in Decision Sciences (Austin Peay Center-Fort Campbell), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language
Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, JOTC Jungle Warfare
Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, NATO LRRP School Patrol Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Irregular Warfare Course, Joint
Special Operations Collaborative Planning Course, Joint Special Operations Advanced Planning Applications Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Eldest son of immigrant parents from the former Yugoslavia. Enlisted in the Army straight out of high school in 1986, saw action in
Operation Just Cause (1989) in Panama and the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991) as an infantryman with the 505 th Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Re-assigned to
the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light), deployed to Somalia for Operation Gothic Serpent (1993), served as part of the task force charged with rescuing
members of Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu. Served a tour in the Sinai peninsula as a member of the USBATT Contingent of the MFO in 1995 and again in
1996. Took part in joint security operations in Panama in 1997. Served as a member of the NATO peacekeeping Security Force in Bosnia in 1998. Joined the
311th Military Intelligence Battalion's Long Range Surveillance Detachment in 2001. Led surveillance operations in support of Task Force Rakkasan in
Afghanistan in 2002 and deployed into Iraq with elements of the 101 st Airborne Division in 2003. Assigned to the 101st Aviation Regiment's newly organized
Pathfinder Company along with other members of the LRSD after the 311th Military Intelligence Battalion's inactivation in 2006. Fluent in Arabic (Modern
Standard and Iraqi), Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish; conversant in Macedonian, Polish, and Russian. Tough and uncompromising as GIJOE's most senior
enlisted leader and adviser, steadfast in his adherence to democratic ideals, genuinely sympathetic to the plight of the oppressed the world over.
File Name: Dubé, Robert D.
DOB: 1982-10-17 POB: East Greenwich, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Rollbar Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment:: Motor Vehicle Maintenance NCO (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Motor Transportation Maintenance Company, 1st Maintenance Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 15 (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Mechanical Engineering Technology (Community College of Rhode Island)

Relevant Training (partial list): Automotive Organizational Maintenance Course, Automotive Intermediate Maintenance Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Logistics Vehicle Mechanic Course, Semitrailer Refueler Operator Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A professional mechanic, amateur racer, and import car “tuner” specializing in the repair, racing, and modification of European and Japanese
“sleeper” cars (high-performance vehicles with low-key and unassuming exteriors) prior to enlisting in the Marines in 2004. Assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment
15's 1st Maintenance Battalion after completing initial MOS-producing school training. Deployed to Afganistan's Helmand province in 2007 as part of a forward
combat logistics detachment supporting I Marine Expeditionary Force and ISAF operations in the region. Approachable, knowledgable, and cost-conscious, usually
the first person GIJOE teammates consult when it comes to issues with their personal motor vehicles.

File Name: Duggleby, Wilmer S.

DOB: 1978-03-10 POB: Cooperstown, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Hardball Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/MGL Gunner (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Therapeutic Recreation (Ithaca College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Basic Airborne School, Remote Sensor Operator Training, Infantry
Squad Leaders Course, MEU(SOC) Certification Joint Training, RUTEX Training, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Desert Operations Course, Fast
Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Played outfielder and was a recognized “power-hitter” in college, helping lead the Ithaca Bombers baseball team to the second round of
the 2001 New York Regional NCAA playoffs and an Empire Athletics Association title. Was drafted as a junior by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 20 th round of the
2000 MLB Draft. Spent his first two years as a professional baseball player improving his all-around game playing on a Blue Jays minor league affiliate, the
Auburn Doubledays of the New York-Penn League, waiting for a major league call-up that never came. Joined the Marines in 2004, participated in counter-
smuggling and counterinsurgency operations in Iraq's Al Anbar governorate in 2005 and 2006. Genuinely modest and guileless, qualities that might have kept
him from achieving more in the professional baseball leagues despite his major league-level athletic ability. Prefers to work in the background but is an
effective leader if pressed.
File Name: Faireborn, Dashiell R.
DOB: 1967-08-23 POB: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Call-Sign: Flint Pay Grade: W-2
Duty Assignment: HVT Tracker Team Leader (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Comparative Literature (Princeton University), MSt in English (University of Oxford)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Ranger School, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS Qualification
Phase (SF Weapons Sergeant), SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, SF Military Free Fall Parachutist Course,Operations and
Intelligence Course, Advanced Special Operations Techniques Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Warrant Officer Candidate School, SF Warrant Officer Basic
Course, SF Warrant Technical and Tactical Certification Course, Joint Special Operations Irregular Warfare Advanced Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter
Certification, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking School, Weaponeering
Applications Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A Rhodes Scholar, spent two years at Oxford doing post-graduate work in English Language and Literature. Returned to the United States
somewhat disillusioned with the professional academic's life and role in society. Joined the army as an infantryman in 1993. Participated in numerous patrol actions in
the Korean Demilitarized Zone as a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade's 503rd Infantry Regiment between 1994 and 1997, serving alongside future GIJOE
operatives Conrad Hauser (call-sign: Duke) and Marvin Hinton (call-sign: Roadblock). Went Special Forces in 1998. Took part in clandestine manhunt operations in
Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia, 1999 to 2001. Deployed to Afghanistan as a member of a joint CIA/10 th Special Forces Group task unit in 2003. Appointed warrant
officer in 2004. Served as a technical officer during foreign internal defense operations and Joint Combined Exchange Training exercises in Mali, Mauritania, and
Senegal from 2006 to 2008. Fluent in French (Metropolitan/Standard), German, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish; conversant in Czech, Polish, Slovak, and Russian. Has
a flair for the dramatic, perhaps as well known among teammates for his on-field exhibitions of bravado as he is for his tactical prowess.

File Name: Falcone, Vincent R.

DOB: 1977-11-30 POB: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Call-Sign: Falcon Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Detachment Executive Officer (Detachment Command Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Linguistics (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill); Master of Professional Studies, Strategic Leadership concentration (Austin Peay Center-Fort
Campbell); AA in Farsi (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Army ROTC Basic Course, Army ROTC Leaders Training Course, Army ROTC Advanced Course, Army ROTC Leader
Development and Assessment Course, Infantry Officer Basic Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School, Infantry Captains
Career Course, Basic Instructor Course, Systems Approach to Training Course, Infantry Mortar Platoon Leaders Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course,
SF Unit Officer Qualification Course, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, Advanced Special
Operations Techniques Training, Air Assault School; Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; Rappel Master Course,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF
Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: A second generation Green Beret, father having served with the 10 th Special Forces Group. Served as executive officer, B Company, 2 nd
Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) from 2003 to 2005, seeing action in two deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Went Special Forces in 2006. Participated in numerous foreign internal defense operations and Joint Combined Exchange Training exercises in the Horn of
Africa region in 2007 and 2008. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Gulf Arabic, and Yemeni), Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), French (Metropolitan/Standard
and Maghreb dialect), and Spanish; conversant in Somali (North-Central dialect) and Swahili. Possesses a natural aptitude for picking up the colloquial
nuances of foreign languages, making him a cut above many of GIJOE's other polyglots. Uses a keen sense of cultural awareness and a genuine affability to
reliably earn the trust and loyalty of foreign allies.
File Name: Fardie, Donovan G.
DOB: 1982-12-11 POB: Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Crosshair Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Sniper/Spotter (Detachment Headquarters STA Sniper Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business Management (Palomar College-Camp Pendleton)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Designated Marksman School, Scout/Sniper Basic Course, Urban Sniper Course, Mountainous
Scout/Sniper Course, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Basic Airborne School, Combatant Diver Course, Marksmanship Coach Course, Marksmanship
Instructor Course, Tactical Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, MEU(SOC) Certification Joint
Training, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification
Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Marines out of high school in 2001. Initially assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, participated in military operations in
Iraq ousting Saddam Hussein in 2003. Returned to Iraq in 2004, taking part in security operations in Al Anbar governorate. Joined the 1 st Reconnaissance
Battalion in late 2004. Entered scout-sniper training in 2005. Scored 35 of 35 rounds “in the black” during the Known Distance portion of the Scout Sniper
School marksmanship training phase. Visual acuity in both eyes, as tested by Navy opticians, is listed at 20/10 (LogMAR of -0.30), the generally acknowledged
maximum for the unaided human eye. Participated in Operation Green Trident in Iraq in 2006. Returned to Iraq for a six-month deployment in 2007 and again
in 2008. Quiet and unassuming, spends his leisure time camping, hiking, and hunting with family and friends.

File Name: Faria, Jason A.

DOB: 1977-01-25 POB: Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Call-Sign: Shockwave Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Physical Security Operations Supervisor (Physical Security Team 1, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 65th Military Police Company, 503rd Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Criminal Justice (Oakland Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Basic Police Training (Oakland Police Academy), NTOA Urban Rifle for Patrol Officers Course, NTOA Patrol Counterambush Tactics
and Techniques, NTOA Basic SWAT Training, NTOA Response to Barricade Extremist/Terrorist Incidents Course, NTOA Booby Trap and Explosives Recognition
Course, NTOA Tactical Rappel & Beginning Lead Climber Course, NTOA Intermediate/Advanced SWAT Training, NTOA High Risk Warrant Service Course, NTOA
Resolution of Barricaded Suspect and Hostage Rescue Course, NTOA Hostage Rescue Linear Interventions Course, Military Police AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air
Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical
Security Course, SRT Phase I Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, SRT Phase II (Marksman/Observer) Course, Protective Service Training Course, High Risk
Personnel Security Course, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A five-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department's SRT (Special Response Team), where he specialized in mechanical and explosive
breaching and tactical entry techniques. Highlights of his civilian law enforcement career include taking part in the successful capture of a number of high-ranking
members of the Detroit Partnership, Chaldean mafia, and Almighty Vice Lord Nation organized crime rings during the late 1990s. Joined the Army in 2002 in the
wake of the 9/11 attacks. Deployed to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with elements of the 16 th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) in 2003, served as a driver and
protective services specialist at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility until 2005. Conducted detainee and convoy security operations in Iraq in 2007 through
2008. Conversant in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi), Italian and Spanish. Volunteers as a choir-member (tenor) at St. Mary's Church near Fort Wadsworth in
his spare time.
File Name: Felix, Dwayne A.
DOB: 1977-03-04 POB: New York City, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Rampart Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Small Craft Coxswain (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Boat Team 22, Naval Special Warfare Group FOUR (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Electrical Technology (Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Jefferson Davis Campus)

Relevant Training (partial list): Fire Controlman "A" School, NATO Sea Sparrow Surface Missile System (Mk 57 Mod 2/3) Technician Training, Close-In Weapon
System (Mk 15/Block 11-14) Technician Training, Stinger Anti-terrorist Weapon Operations and Maintenance Training, NAVSPECWAR Small Arms Organizational-
level Maintenance Technician Training, SWCC Basic Crewman Training, NAVSPECWAR Crewman Qualification Training, Basic Tactical Swimmer Course, Basic
Airborne School, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Air Assault School, Camp Michael Monsoor Mountain Warfare Training, Camp Michael Monsoor Special
Reconnaissance Training, Tactical Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Advanced Tactical Swimmer Course, SCUBA Diver Qualification, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked in downtown New York's Chinatown Fair Video Arcade (the former home of the World Famous Dancing and Tic-Tac-Toe Chickens)
before joining the Navy in 2000. Served as a fire controlman on the USS Essex (LHD-2), taking part in humanitarian support operations in East Timor in 2001 and
North Korea in 2002. Participated in riverine security operations on the Euphrates river as part of a patrol boat escort accompanying elements of the 31 st Marine
Expeditionary Unit in the lead-up to the Battle of Fallujah in 2004. Returned to the Essex in time to take part in humanitarian aid operations in Indonesia after the
2004 St. Stephen's Day tsunami. Joined NAVSPECWAR as a SWCC in 2005. Between 2006 and 2008, sent on various assignments in Indonesia and the
Philippines in support of SOCPAC operations. Participated in joint training exercises with the Kenyan Navy in early 2009.

File Name: Felton, Joseph

DOB: 1976-05-14 POB: Vashon, Washington, USA
Call-Sign: Recoil Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop (LRS) (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Environmental Health (University of Washington)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: An amateur triathlete and recreational weightlifter, his team finished among the top 10 during the week-long Raid Gauloises adventure race
held in Nepal and Tibet in 2000. Joined the Army in 2001, intent on using his physical gifts for more than the professional pursuit of athletic achievements and
accolades. Initially assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment (Light), saw action in Afghanistan in 2003. Served briefly with the now-inactive F Company, 51 st Infantry
(Long Range Surveillance), participated in various long range surveillance operations in northwestern Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Assigned to the 504th Battlefield
Surveillance Brigade's Long Range Surveillance Troop in 2007, deployed back to Iraq in 2008. In terms of sheer physical stamina, endurance, and pain tolerance,
has few peers within the GIJOE community.
File Name: Ferreira, Stephen A.
DOB: 1968-03-11 POB: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Bullhorn Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Platoon Chief (Physical Security Operations Platoon Headquarters, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 21st Military Police Company, 503rd Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Chemical Dependency/Addiction Studies (Rhode Island College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Basic Recruit Training Course (State of Rhode Island Department of Public Safety Municipal Police Academy), Uniformed Police
Training Program, FBI Police Officer Training, FBI Academy LETSS Program, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, SRT
Phase I Course, SRT Phase II (Marksman/Observer) Course, Protective Service Training Course, IPTM Crisis-Hostage Negotiations-Level I Course, IPTM Crisis-
Hostage Negotiations-Level II Course, IPTM Crisis-Hostage Negotiations-Level III Course, Law Enforcement Advanced Interviewing Training Program, Military
Police AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, High Risk Personnel
Security Course, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program, Law Enforcement Supervisor Leadership
Training Program, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Spent 3 years as a police officer with the Providence Police Department. Joined the FBI Police in 1990, assigned to their New Haven field
office, eventually joining the FBI Police SWAT team as a cover team marksman. Has had extensive training and field experience in the conduct of crisis/hostage
negotiations. Joined the Army in 1995. As a member of the 21st Military Police Company, deployed to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Guard (1997–1998).
Participated in security operations supporting Task Force Falcon in Kosovo, 1999. Deployed to Iraq in 2004 and again in 2006. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
A competitive handgun shooter in his spare time, placed third overall in the US Practical Shooting Association's 2002 Infinity US Open event and fourth overall
during the 2003 Pan Am Championship. Has taught as a guest instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Tactics For Flying Armed Training
Program and Law Enforcement Control Tactics Instructor Training Program.

File Name: Fine, Seymour P.

DOB: 1981-06-22 POB: Geraldine, Montana, USA
Call-Sign: Sci-Fi Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Non-Lethal DEW Operator (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop (LRS) (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Computer Electronics (Central Texas College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Fire Control Repairer AIT, Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Squad Designated Marksman Course, Pathfinder
School, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Inter-service Non-lethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Started his military career in 2001 as a fire control repairer assigned to the 602 nd Forward Support Company. Switched career
tracks in 2005, electing to go infantry upon re-enlistment. Served with the 2 nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light) in Iraq before joining the 504th
Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's Long Range Surveillance Troop (B Troop, 2-38 Cav) in 2007. Saw action in Ninawa governorate, northern Iraq in the
fall of 2008 as part of a joint US-Iraqi reconnaissance patrol. Has received extensive specialized training in the use of non-lethal individual weapons,
and is particularly proficient in the use of man-portable non-lethal directed energy (“dazzler”) devices. His consistently relaxed demeanor can sometimes
be mistaken for indifference, but his calm and collected disposition in the face of potential harm has served him and his teammates well in the field time
and again.
File Name: Forrest, Brian M.
DOB: 1977-07-04 POB: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
Call-Sign: Wet-Suit Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Reconnaissance Diver (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: SEAL Team 8, Naval Special Warfare Group TWO (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Marine Science (University of South Carolina-Columbia)

Relevant Training (partial list): Sonar Technician (Surface) "A" School, Sonar Auxiliary Maintenance and Operations Repairman Training, Basic Acoustic Analyst
Training, Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL training, SEAL Qualification Training, SEAL Professional Development Phase Training, SEAL Unit Level Training,
SEAL Squadron Integration Training, Basic Airborne School, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Desert Environmental Survival Course, Camp Michael Monsoor
Mountain Warfare Training, Camp Michael Monsoor Special Reconnaissance Training, Air Assault School, Tactical Rope Suspension Technician Certification &
Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Served as a sonar technician aboard the USS Avenger (MCM-1), taking part in various joint exercises in the Pacific in late 2001. Joined
NAVSPECWAR in 2004. Participated in numerous counter-terrorist actions in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008. Engaged Somali pirates in a successful and
highly-publicized high-seas hostage rescue mission in the Gulf of Aden in early 2009. Neither polite nor politic except in the most perfunctory of fashions and is
considered by most teammates to be somewhat lacking in social graces, but is an astute and dedicated student of the military sciences, being well-read in both
the classics and contemporary texts.

File Name: Freistadt, Eric W.

DOB: 1977-03-03 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Short-Fuze Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Commando Mortarman (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics emphasis, minor in Physics (Northern Illinois University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Fire Support Specialist AIT, Air Assault School, Joint Fires Observer Course, Indirect Fire Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School,
Infantry Mortar Leaders Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course, Observer/Controller (O/C) Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from a military family, father and grandfather both career first sergeants in the Army. Served as a fire support specialist for the 320th
Field Artillery Regiment (Air Assault), seeing action as a member of an M119 howitzer battery in Iraq during the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom in
2003. Re-classed as an indirect fire infantryman in 2004. Joined the 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) in 2005, deployed to Afghanistan that year with the 2 nd
Battalion. Received extensive informal instruction in the use and maintenance of the M6C-210 60mm lightweight commando mortar from European users in the
ISAF and has honed his skills with it to a remarkable degree on joint operations with the Greek and Bulgarian contingents, operating the weapon with exceptional
speed and accuracy. Assigned to the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment in 2008, where he put his experience with the commando mortar to practical
use in Joint Readiness Training Center exercises as a commando mortarman with the “Republic of Acadia” OPFOR unit. Has gained some notoriety for being a
somewhat irascible perfectionist, no doubt a result of his stern military family upbringing, although not to the extent that his behavioral quirks become operational
or interpersonal detriments.
File Name: Gambello, Anthony S.
DOB: 1976-02-20 POB: Lodi, California, USA
Call-Sign: Flash Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Non-Lethal DEW Operator (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Provisional) (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion (Assault), 10th Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Electrical/Electronics Engineering (California State University-Chico)

Relevant Training (partial list): CBRN Specialist AIT; Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Reconnaissance Course; Technical Escort Course, Infantryman
AIT, Basic Airborne School, Squad Designated Marksman Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope
& Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Inter-service Non-
lethal Individual Weapons Instructor Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Served his initial term of service in the Army as a CBRN specialist with the 44 th Chemical Company. Conducted CBRN reconnaissance
operations as part of the 2nd Chemical Battalion's contribution to the V Corps contingent during the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Re-classed as an
infantryman in 2004, participating in combat action in Iraq as a member of the 1 st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light) in late 2006. Assigned to the 10th
Mountain Division's provisional Pathfinder Company in 2007. In 2008, participated in counter-smuggling operations in Diyala governorate near the Iraq-Iran
border as part of Task Force Minuteman. Trained extensively in the use of non-lethal individual weapons, and is schooled in the basic mechanisms and the use
of man-portable non-lethal directed energy (“dazzler”) devices. Methodical and persistent, has an innate and unshakeable faith in the order of the universe.

File Name: Garcia, Alejandro

DOB: 1972-04-09 POB: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Call-Sign: Long Range Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Logistics Chief (Logistics Team, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 7th Transportation Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Classical Civilization (University of California-Davis)

Relevant Training (partial list): Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Freight Traffic Course, Installation Traffic
Management Course, Defense Advanced Traffic Management Course, Passenger Travel Specialist Course, Military Standard Transportation & Movement
Procedures Course, Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3) Training; Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade-and-Below (FBCB2) Software
Familiarization Training; Transportation Coordinators Automatic Information for Movement System II (TC AIMS II) Training, Automated Air Load Planning System
(AALPS) Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Camp
Adder Combat Logistical Patrol (CLP) Academy Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Born and raised in the shadow of the iron and steel mills of Monterrey, father an ore processing plant manager, mother a teller at the local
Banorte bank. Family immigrated to the United States when he was twelve, eventually settling in Dallas, Texas. Made a relatively smooth transition to American
life. Became a naturalized American citizen in 1990. Joined the Army almost immediately after graduating from UC Davis in 1995. Assigned to the pre-modular
264th Support Battalion after completing motor transport operator AIT. Deployed to Panama for Operation Jungle Warrior (1997) as part of a forward support
element supporting 505th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) forces. Deployed to Iraq in 2006. Sent to Afghanistan the following year. Fluent in Spanish, conversant in
Ancient Greek (Attic dialect), French, German, Italian, and Latin (Old, Classical, and Vulgar registers). A “soldier-scholar” in the truest sense, equally comfortable
conducting mounted combat logistical patrols as he is parsing accounts of ancient battles.
File Name: Gonsalves, Blaine M.
DOB: 1982-10-14 POB: San Francisco, California, USA
Call-Sign: Knockdown Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Imagery Analysis NCO/LAAD Systems Expert (Tactical Deception Group Camouflage & Concealment Team, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: USNS Victorious (T-AGOS-19), Special Mission Ships Program, Military Sealift Command (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Natural Sciences (Pasadena City College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Intelligence Specialist "A" School, Naval Imagery Interpreter Training, Strike Planning Applications Training, Stinger Anti-terrorist
Weapon Operations and Maintenance Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Youngest son of working-class Portuguese-American parents, father a plumber, mother a certified home health aide. Joined the Navy in
2004. Spent the bulk of his pre-GIJOE military career assigned to the USNS Victorious (T-AGOS-19) ocean surveillance ship as a naval imagery interpreter.
Participated in numerous surveillance and surveying operations throughout the West Pacific between 2005 and 2007. In 2008, took part in clandestine
surveillance and surveying operations in international waters in the Yellow Sea, just beyond Chinese and North Korean jurisdiction. Cross-trained in FIM-92
Stinger portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile operations and maintenance. Conversant in Portuguese and Spanish. A recreational skeet shooter in his
spare time, represented Pasadena City College in the Association of College Unions International 2001 Clay Target Championships.

File Name: Goren, Charles

DOB: 1969-12-19 POB: Boise, Idaho, USA
Call-Sign: Tollbooth Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Deception Operations Chief-Engineering (Tactical Deception Group Camouflage & Concealment Team, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 4th Battalion, 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Sapper Leader Course, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS
Qualification Phase (SF Engineer Sergeant), SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, SF
Military Free Fall Parachutist Course; Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; SF Operations and Intelligence Course,
Advanced Special Operations Techniques Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction
Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Course, Special Operations Forces Interagency
Collaboration Course, Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent Course, Combat Lifesaver Course,Tactical Information Operations Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course,
NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was an M60A1 AVLB (Armored Vehicle-Launched Bridge) operator with the 1 st Armored Division's Engineer Brigade (“Iron Sappers”),
performing humanitarian demining and proofing missions, construction work, and route reconnaissance in Bosnia during the late 1990s as a member of the now-
inactive 40th Engineer Battalion. Participated in route and bridge reconnaissance operations in Albania in 1999 and was part of a supporting engineer contingent that
accompanied Task Force Falcon in Kosovo later that year. Went Special Forces in 2001. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2003 as a member of the 10 th Special Forces
Group. Participated in foreign internal defense operations in Western Africa in 2006. Served on cadre, SF Engineer Sergeant School, 2007 to 2009. Fluent in Serbo-
Croatian, Polish, and Russian; conversant in Czech, French (Metropolitan/Standard), German, and Spanish. Resolute and unyielding in the face of all odds, embodies
the dichotomous essence of the military engineer as both maker and destroyer.
File Name: Graves, Robert W.
DOB: 1971-01-07 POB: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Call-Sign: Grunt Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop (LRS) (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Industrial Engineering (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Fire Support Specialist AIT, Air Assault School, Airborne School, Joint Fires Observer Course, Infantryman AIT, Basic Military
Mountaineer Summer Course, Light Leaders Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Battle Damage Assessment
Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Began his military career as a fire support specialist with an M119 howitzer battery in the 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne). Fought
alongside elements of the French Army's 6e Division Légère Blindée (6th Light Armored Division) in their push into Iraq during Operation Desert Storm/Opération
Daguet. Separated from the Army in 1993 to get his engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Re-enlisted as an infantryman in 2000, assigned to the 10 th Mountain
Division's 87th Infantry Regiment. Participated in missions supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on two deployments between 2001
to 2004. Awarded the Army Achievement Medal (with Valor device) for his actions during Operation Anaconda (2002). Transferred to the 504 th Battlefield Surveillance
Brigade's LRS Troop in 2006. Led a joint US/Iraqi long range surveillance patrol in northern Iraq in 2008. Conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard) and Spanish.
Married to the former Dolores “Lola” Marquez, an erstwhile US Army helicopter mechanic. Couple have one daughter, born in 1998.

File Name: Greer, Carl W.

DOB: 1964-02-12 POB: Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Doc Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Emergency Medicine Physician (Medical Treatment Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 772nd Forward Surgical Team, 86th Combat Support Hospital, 44th Medical Command (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences (State University of New York at Buffalo), Doctor of Medicine (Harvard Medical School), Residency in Emergency Medicine
(Johns Hopkins Hospital), Emergency Medicine Service Fellowship (Brooke Army Medical Center/University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio)

Relevant Training (partial list): Direct Commissioned Officer Course, AMEDD Officer Basic Leadership Course, Field Management of Chemical & Biological
Casualties Course, Medical NBC Readiness Workshop, Military Tropical Medicine Course, Advanced Topics on Medical Defense Against Biological and Chemical
Agents Course, Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course, AMEDD Captains Career Course, Joint Humanitarian Operations Course, Basic Airborne School,
Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course,Air Assault School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Global Medicine Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, Joint Special Operations Medical Officer's Orientation Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Entered the Army in 1996 after completing his residency in emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Deployed to Kosovo as a
member of the 86th Combat Support Hospital's contribution to Task Force Medical Falcon in 2001. Spent time as an assistant medical director for the US Army
EMS and as a Health Care Specialist AIT instructor as part of his emergency medicine service fellowship training at the Brooke Army Medical Center. Served as an
emergency physician at the LSA Adder Level III hospital facility in Iraq from 2004 to 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 as a member of a field surgical team
assigned to Forward Operating Base Fenty. Conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Spanish, Swahili, and Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects). Research
interests include disaster medicine, trauma informatics, and damage control resuscitation.
File Name: Guderian, Sherman R.
DOB: 1977-07-21 POB: New York City, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Heavy Metal Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/NSTV Driver (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop, 3rd Squadron (RSTA), 7th Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Accounting (Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Financial Management Technician AIT, Cavalry Scout AIT, Javelin Gunnery Course, Bradley Master Gunner Course, Air Assault
School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course,
Basic Airborne School, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF
Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Spent his formative years living in the Gowanus low-income housing housing projects in Brooklyn, the son of Polish immigrants, father a
roofer, mother a garment industry factory worker. Raised to aspire to more than the hardscrabble paycheck-to-paycheck existence of his parents. Originally viewed
the Army as a route by which he could reach his ultimate goal to become a CPA. Joined the Army in late 2000 after earning his associate's degree in accounting,
started his military career as a financial management technician assigned to the Defense Contract Audit Agency Headquarters Complex in Fort Belvoir.
Transferred to the cavalry in 2004 upon realizing, after extensive self-examination and much introspection, that he didn't want to spend his professional life as a
desk jockey. Served as a Bradley M3A3 crewman during the 3-7 Cavalry's deployment to Iraq in 2005, conducting numerous combat patrols in hostile territory
southeast of Baghdad covering over 200 square miles. Returned to Iraq in 2007, where he would perform security and counterinsurgency operations well into
2008.

File Name: Hanrahan, Timothy P.

DOB: 1974-04-28 POB: Tampa, Florida, USA
Call-Sign: Blowtorch Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Security Man/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Thermal (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Industrial Management Technology (Palm Beach Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Welding Technology Certification (Palm Beach Community College), Metal Worker AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, SERE Level-C
Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A professional metal worker before joining the Army, established himself in the Florida custom motorcycle community as one of its
preeminent fabricators, having had a hand in the design and construction of various Daytona Beach Bike Week custom motorcycle competition winners
during the late 1990s. Enlisted in the Army in 2001 at the height of his status as a regional motorcycle culture celebrity, a move that surprised more than
a few peers and fans. Deployed to Iraq in 2004 as a member of the 814 th Engineer Company (Multi-Role Bridge). Took part in the Battle of Al Qa'im
(2005) in Al Anbar governorate near the Iraqi-Syrian border, fighting alongside elements of the 25 th Marine Regiment against Fedayeen Saddam
irregulars and associated insurgents and opportunistic armed bandits. Re-enlisted in 2006 after the expiration of his initial contract's extension, put in for
infantryman training. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 as part of an ISAF reinforcing airborne infantry contingent from the 173 rd Airborne Brigade
Combat Team.
File Name: Hardy, William S.
DOB: 1970-12-20 POB: Brady, Texas, USA
Call-Sign: Wild Bill Pay Grade: W-3
Duty Assignment: Aeroscout Helicopter Pilot/Aircraft Commander (Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment (Attack Reconnaissance) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering (Texas Tech University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Warrant Officer Flight Training Program, Advanced Helicopter Ditching
and Dunker Training, OH-58D Pilot Qualification, UH-60A/L/M Pilot Qualification, SERE Level-C Training, Aircraft Survivability Equipment/Electronic Warfare
Officer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Aviation Warrant Officer Advanced Course, C-23 Pilot Qualification, Air Operations
Staff Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Air Liaison Officer Qualification Course, NATO Air Integration and Planning Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army at the age of 18, started his military career as an infantryman with the 327 th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion (Air Assault),
seeing action in Operation Desert Storm (1991). Separated from the service in 1994 and went on to earn his engineering degree from Texas Tech. Entered
Warrant Office Candidate School, 1999. Flew OH-58D Kiowa Warrior observation/aeroscout helicopters on armed reconnaissance missions over Salah ad-Din
governorate in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2004 to 2008. Conversant in Spanish. Amiable and slow-talking, fancies himself a country-western singer. As a
somewhat curious affectation, carries a pearl-handled, vintage, single-action Colt revolver as a personal sidearm; not beyond spinning a tall tale or two for the
amusement of his comrades.

File Name: Hart-Burnett, Alison R.

DOB: 1974-01-22 POB: Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Lady Jaye Pay Grade: W-2
Duty Assignment: HUMINT Collection Technical Officer (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Army Operations Group, INSCOM (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Linguistics (Bryn Mawr College), P.Grad.Dip. in Speech and Language Processing (Trinity College-Dublin), AA in Dari (Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Human Intelligence Collector AIT, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Basic Airborne School, Static-Line Jumpmaster
Course, Air Assault School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Warrant Officer Candidate School, HUMINT Technician Warrant Officer
Basic Course, Responsible Officers Course/Level II Anti-terrorism Officer Training, NATO Intel Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO
Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Studied linguistics at Bryn Mawr and spent a year doing postgraduate studies in speech and language processing at Trinity College in Dublin.
Enlisted in the Army in 1999. Initially assigned to the 201 st Military Intelligence Battalion, participated in HUMINT operations in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and
2003. Received her warrant officer's appointment in 2005. Assigned to INSCOM's secretive Army Operations Group in 2006, played an instrumental role in a number
of clandestine HUMINT activities conducted in Southwest Asia and Western Europe. An accomplished part-time actor before joining the military, credits include parts
in off-Broadway stage productions, television advertisements, and voice-over work for a number of cartoons and video games. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard,
Gulf Arabic, Iraqi, and Levantine), French (Metropolitan/Standard), German, Hebrew, Irish (Gaeilge), Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), and Spanish; conversant in
Portuguese. Can easily pass for a native in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, France, Germany, and any number of Spanish-speaking countries.
File Name: Hasle, David K.
DOB: 1979-10-19 POB: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Call-Sign: Salvo Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/FLASH Gunner (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Management Studies (University of Maryland University College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Small Arms/Artillery Repairer AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Fire Control Repairer Course,
Armament Repairer Course, Defense Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Foreign Language Area Study Certificate in Italian (University of Maryland University College Europe),
ISAF SOF Operations Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Spent his formative years living with his paternal grandparents while parents worked to resolve their marital issues. Grandfather, a spy for
the anti-Nazi German resistance during World War II who managed to evade capture and fled to the US after the failure of the July 20 Plot, inculcated in the young
David an enduring pugnacity and folkish probity. Worked for a few years as a warehouse laborer and construction worker after high school, joined the Army in
2001. Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) as an armorer soon after graduating from small arms/artillery repairer AIT. Deployed to
Afghanistan in 2003 and 2005. Re-classed as an infantryman and transferred to the 173 rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in 2006. Returned to Afghanistan in
2007, deploying in support of ISAF units. Compiled extensive experience in the use and maintenance of the M202A1 FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon)
man-portable incendiary rocket launcher during his time in Southwest Asia. Conversant in German and Italian.

File Name: Hauser, Conrad G.

DOB: 1970-08-22 POB: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Call-Sign: Duke Pay Grade: E–8 (1SG)
Duty Assignment: Detachment Senior Enlisted Adviser (Detachment Command Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Psychology, minor in Asian Studies (University of Maryland University College Asia)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School, Air Assault School, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS Qualification
Phase (SF Weapons Sergeant), SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, SF Military Free
Fall Parachutist Course, Combat Diver Qualification Course; Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; SF Operations and
Intelligence Course, Advanced Special Operations Techniques Training, British Army Jungle LRRP Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Special Operations Forces
Senior Enlisted Course, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, ISAF SOF Operations
Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Already fluent in French (Metropolitan/Standard) and German when he joined the Army in 1990, father originally from Brandenburg state in
Germany, mother a Parisian expatriate. Stationed in South Korea as a soldier in the 173 rd Airborne Brigade's 503rd Infantry Regiment from 1992 to 1997,
participated in numerous operations in the Korean Demilitarized Zone alongside future GIJOE operatives Dashiell Fairborn (call-sign: Flint) and Marvin Hinton
(call-sign: Roadblock). Went Special Forces in 1998. Took part in demining operations in Cambodia and Vietnam in 1999. Attended the British Army Jungle
Warfare Training School (Training Team Brunei) in 2001. Led a Combat Advisory Team in support of JSOTF-P operations targeting the Abu Sayyaf paramilitary
organization and various armed bandit groups in the Bangsamoro region, 2002–2007. Went on a six-month rotational deployment to Afghanistan in 2008. Besides
French and German, also fluent in Malay/Indonesian, Min Nan (Hokkien dialect), and Tagalog; conversant in Khmer (Phnom Penh dialect), Korean, Tausūg, Thai,
and Vietnamese. A quintessential “first shirt,” a judicious adviser to the commander, a firm but fair martial disciplinarian; an inspirational, intelligent, and efficient
leader of fighting men.
File Name: Hinton, Marvin F.
DOB: 1972-11-25 POB: Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
Call-Sign: Roadblock Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Cover Man (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Regimental Reconnaissance Company, Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: Superior Diploma (Ecole Ritz Escoffier)

Relevant Training (partial list): Food Service Operations Specialist AIT, Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Anti-Armor Leaders
Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Ranger School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, ISAF SOF Operations Course,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Was working as a nightclub bouncer and short-order cook to raise money to attend the Ritz Escoffier culinary school in France when
a recruiter convinced him that the Army could train him just as well to be a professional chef. Joined the service in 1992 as a food service operations
specialist but transferred to the infantry after finding Army menus and preparation techniques too appalling. Re-assigned to the 173 rd Airborne Brigade's
503rd Infantry Regiment in 1995, served briefly alongside future GIJOE operatives Dashiell Fairborn (call-sign: Flint) and Conrad Hauser (call-sign: Duke) in
the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Separated from the service in 1998 and was finally able to attend Ecole Ritz Escoffier a year later. Started a restaurant with
two partners in Los Angeles in 2000 but despite glowing reviews from print and TV food critics, the business struggled to find loyal clientele in the
notoriously fickle LA restaurant scene and he sold his stake in the concern after only three years of operation. Re-enlisted in 2003, assigned to E Company
(LRS) (Airborne) of the now-inactive 313th Military Intelligence Battalion. Deployed to Iraq in 2005, taking part in operations to provide a secure environment
for the country's elections. Joined the 75th Ranger Regiment's Regimental Reconnaissance Team in 2006 with E Company's inactivation, participated in
operations in Afghanistan throughout 2008 and 2009. Fluent in French (Metropolitan/Standard), conversant in Spanish.

File Name: Holsinger, Philip M.

DOB: 1980-09-16 POB: Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
Call-Sign: Barricade Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Physical Security Operations Supervisor (Physical Security Team 3, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 164th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: Associate of Arts, General Curriculum (University of Maryland University College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Military Police AIT, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, Protective Service Training
Course, SRT Phase I Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, SRT Phase II (Marksman/Observer) Course, High Risk Personnel Security Course, SERE Level-C
Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course,
Commercial Vehicle Counterterrorism Training Program, Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Raised in a tightly-knit Sudeten German-American extended family. Grandparents on his father's side of the family were ethnic
Germans from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region, immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s to escape post-World War II anti-German ethnic
violence. Father worked as a coal miner with the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company before succumbing to lung cancer in the mid-1980s, mother a baker.
Excelled in sports and academics in high school, although was somewhat withdrawn socially. Worked as a factory worker at Pitt Plastics, Inc. out of high
school before deciding to join the military in 2002. Assigned to the 793 rd Military Police Battalion after graduating from military police AIT, stationed in
Germany. Deployed to Iraq in late 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Helped secure People's Mujahedin of Iran/Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK)
personnel at Camp Ashraf. Also participated in military police operations in support of the 3 rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division in their area of
operation. Returned to Iraq in 2008 where he took part in the professionalization training of Iraqi Police units in the Baghdad and Basra governorates.
Conversant in Czech and German.
File Name: Iannotti, William V.
DOB: 1975-08-31 POB: Key West, Florida, USA
Call-Sign: Pathfinder Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business and Management (University of Maryland University College Asia), Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Campbell University-Fort
Bragg/Pope AFB)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, JWTC Jungle Skills
Course, JWTC Jungle Endurance Course, JWTC Combat Tracking Course, SERE Level-C Training, Joint Fires Observer Course, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Pathfinder School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Battle Damage Assessment Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, Battle Staff NCO
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Raised in a single-parent household, father a charter boat operator and a founding member of the “Conch Republic Army.” Worked part-
time in high school as a tour guide. Began his military career with the 173 rd Airborne Brigade's 503rd Infantry Regiment, patrolling the Korean Demilitarized Zone
from 1996 to 2003. Received cross-training in jungle warfare at the Camp Gonsalves Jungle Warfare Training Center. Re-assigned to the now-inactive 313 th
Military Intelligence Battalion's E Company (LRS) (Airborne) in 2004. Participated in surveillance and armed reconnaissance missions in Iraq in support of the
82nd Airborne Division in 2005. With the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion's inactivation in 2006, transferred to the 82 nd Aviation Regiment's Pathfinder
Company along with many of his former LRS comrades. Returned to Iraq in late 2006 on a six-month tour. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007. Fluent in Spanish,
conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Haitian Creole, and Portuguese. Inherited his father's quirky sense of humor and fierce spirit of individualism,
and still celebrates (with tongue firmly in cheek) the Conch Republic's Independence Day every April 23.

File Name: Indiana, Elwood G.

DOB: 1976-09-23 POB: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Call-Sign: Crankcase Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/NSTV Driver (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Troop, 1st Squadron (RSTA-Airborne), 91st Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Electronics (Pinnacle Career Institute)

Relevant Training (partial list): Cavalry Scout AIT, Basic Airborne School, Anti-terrorism Evasive Driving-Staff Driver Course, Ranger School, Air Assault School,
Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: An accomplished amateur mechanic and street racing legend by the time he graduated from high school. Toiled in the IMCA stock car racing
circuit for five years looking to break into NASCAR. With a professional racing career at a virtual standstill, sought another outlet for his competitive drive and not-
inconsiderable talents. Enlisted in the Army in 2002. As a member of the 1 st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, deployed to Iraq in 2004. Participated in security and
stability operations conducted from Forward Operating Base Mackenzie near the city of Ad Duluiyah. Battled alongside elements of the the 2 nd Brigade, 1st Infantry
Division during operations in the city of Samarra in late 2004. With the 1-4 Cav's inactivation in 2006 and its subsequent re-flagging, re-assigned to the 1st
Squadron (RSTA-Airborne), 91st Cavalry Regiment. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 as part of the US military contribution to the ISAF.
File Name: Iron-Knife, Charles
DOB: 1975-10-06 POB: Taos, New Mexico, USA
Call-Sign: Spirit Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Visual Tracker (HVT Tracker Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop (LRS) (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Psychology (University of New Mexico)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, JOTC Jungle Warfare Course, Substance Abuse Studies Certification,
Licensure Track (University of New Mexico); SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction
Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Squad Designated Marksman
Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, JWTC Combat Tracking
Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Grew up in a low-income household in a particularly impoverished section of a town where almost a quarter of the population lives below the
poverty line. Worked as a hunting guide throughout high school. Enlisted in the Army at the age of 18, assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment
(Airborne). Participated in Operation Jungle Warrior (1997) in Panama. Separated from the service in 1998, earned his degree in psychology from the University of
New Mexico in 2003. Served as a guest lecturer and subject matter expert for the FLETC Artesia Facility's Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Training Program in
2004. Worked briefly for the Taos Department of Veteran Services after receiving his substance abuse counseling license. Re-enlisted in 2006. Assigned to the
504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's Long Range Surveillance Troop in 2007, deployed to Iraq in 2008. Was instrumental in the successful capture of insurgents
wanted for the deliberate contamination of Coalition water supplies in a joint US-Iraqi manhunt operation conducted in early 2009 in Ninawa governorate. Fluent in
Hopi, Navajo, Taos, and Spanish; conversant in Apache (Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Mescalero dialects), Jemez (Towa), Picurís, and Zuni. Serves, in an
informal capacity, as the TIGER Detachment's resident expert in acute combat stress reaction management.

File Name: Ito, MacArthur S.

DOB: 1976-05-01 POB: Los Angeles, California, USA
Call-Sign: Quick-Kick Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Security Man/Surreptitious Building Entry Technician (HVT Tracker Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Film and Television (University of California-Los Angeles)

Relevant Training (partial list): International Stuntman School-Standard Session (United Stuntmen's Association), International Stuntman School-Aerial Intensive
Session (United Stuntmen's Association), Infantryman AIT, Bradley Fighting Vehicle Operators Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military
Mountaineer Summer Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE
Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Modern Army Combatives Level 1 Instructor Course; Lock
Picking, Lock Bypassing, and Subtle Mechanical Breaching Techniques Course; Modern Army Combatives Level 2 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives
Level 3 Instructor Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: The only child of immigrant parents, Okinawa-born father and Incheon-born mother owned a convenience store in Watts. Had difficulty
finding social acceptance in both the nisei and the hangukgye migugin communities because of his mixed ancestry and the long-standing historical divide between
the Japanese and the Koreans. Excelled in high school basketball but went unrecruited going into college despite displaying freakish athleticism (college scouting
reports cite his lack of height as the overriding concern of college coaches). Turned his attention to the Asian martial arts. Is an adept practitioner of Kukkiwon
taekwondo, Seigokan Gōjū-ryū karate, Ryūkyū kobujutsū, wing chun (Yip Man branch), Chow Gar school nán pài táng láng (Southern Praying Mantis), and Yang-
style tai chi chuan. Worked briefly as a Hollywood-based stuntman and fight choreographer before joining the Army in 2001. Assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 9th
Infantry Regiment (Mechanized) stationed in South Korea, where he joined the 2 nd Infantry Division's Taekwondo Demonstration Team. Transferred to the 1st
Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment in 2003, deployed to Iraq the following year where he participated in full-spectrum combat operations. Has received
specialized surreptitious building entry training and participated in numerous JRTC exercises as a member of various “Leesville Urban Group” and “Republic of
Acadia” special weapons and special purpose OPFOR units. Fluent in Japanese and Korean; conversant in Cantonese/Yue (Standard dialect) and Spanish.
File Name: Jeffries, Jonas S.
DOB: 1977-10-15 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Ghostrider Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Fixed-Wing ISR Aircraft Pilot/Aircraft Commander
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group, 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Aerospace Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), MS in Aeronautical Engineering (Air Force Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): AFROTC General Military and Professional Officer Courses, Initial Flight Screening, USAF Specialized Undergraduate Training,
Transitional and Operational Flight Training (F-117A Nighthawk), USAF Weapons School (F-117A Nighthawk), Flight Commander Course, Organizational Leadership
Course, Expeditionary Leadership Course, Squadron Officer School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Mission Qualification Flight
Training (MC-12W Liberty), GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Assigned to the 49th Fighter Wing's 8th Fighter Squadron in 2002 after completing F-117A Nighthawk qualification. Flew close air support, ground
attack, and air interdiction missions over Iraq in 2003. Transferred to the 417th Weapons Squadron in 2004. Re-assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center as a
generalist pilot (non-flying) in 2006 with the squadron's inactivation and the impending retirement of the F-117A stealth attack aircraft. Volunteered for MC-12W Liberty
mission qualification training in early 2009. Flew the 362nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron's first MC-12W Liberty ISR aircraft alongside future GIJOE
aviators Bradley Armbruster (call-sign: Ace) and Gregory Boyajian (call-sign: Slipstream) in sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan in the summer of 2009. Obliging and
good humored in his personal interactions but generally eschews the attention and recognition often accorded to pilots, in sharp contrast to his more socially inclined
aviator peers in the SONIC Detachment's Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section.

File Name: Jesso, Kyle

DOB: 1979-11-23 POB: Sacramento California, USA
Call-Sign: Budo Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Exercise Science (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Pathfinder School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 1 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 2 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 3
Instructor Course, Basic Instructor Course, Small Group Instructor Course, Ranger School, Modern Army Combatives Level 4 Instructor Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Descended from one of the last true samurai of the 19th century, his paternal great-great-grandfather fought under the legendary Saigō
Takamori during the Satsuma Rebellion. Great-grandfather immigrated to the United States and worked as a railway worker throughout the turn of the 20 th century.
Grandparents, both American citizens born in California, were forcibly interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center from 1942 to 1945. Father volunteered for
three tours of duty in Vietnam as an Army medic during the late 1960s before embarking on a career as an orthodontist. Studied the Tatsumi-ryū Hyōhō disciplines
of kenjutsu (swordsmanship), iaidō (sword-drawing), jujutsu (grappling/ground fighting/joint trapping), and monomi (surveillance/observation) throughout his teens
and into adulthood. Joined the Army in 2001, initially assigned to the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment after graduating from Infantryman AIT. Participated in joint
training exercises in Pakistan in late 2002, deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Returned to Iraq in 2005, conducted combat actions and
weapons cache search missions in support of Task Force Liberty in Diyala, Salah ad Din, and Kirkuk governorates. Transferred to the 2 nd Battalion, 29th Infantry
Regiment in 2007. Served as an instructor at the US Army Combatives School in Fort Benning from 2008 until his selection to GIJOE. Fluent in Japanese. Spends
his free time working on his vintage 1969 Harley-Davidson KRTT 750 Racer motorcycle and collecting 1980s-era demo tapes from obscure Bay Area heavy metal
bands.
File Name: Jivoin, Jerome T.
DOB: 1973-01-17 POB: Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
Call-Sign: Switch Gears Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Counterintelligence Agent (Tactical Deception Group Camouflage & Concealment Team, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Joint Staff, Joint Task Force Bravo (USSOUTHCOM)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Legal Studies (University of Maryland University College-Fort Sam Houston)

Relevant Training (partial list): Cavalry Scout AIT, Javelin Gunnery Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Infantryman AIT, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Rappel Master Course, Counterintelligence Special Agent Course, Intelligence in Combating Terrorism Course, Defense
Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, Master Resilience Trainer Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Intel Course, NATO SOF
Advanced Intel Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Parents owned a small farm on the outskirts of metropolitan Bogotá. Farm's location made it a convenient target for far-right paramilitary forces,
Marxist-Leninist rebels, corrupt law enforcement and military personnel, and drug cartel enforcers looking to restock on food and supplies. Father and older brother
shot and killed by unknown assailants in 1982 while attempting to stop the theft and slaughter of their remaining livestock. Surviving family granted asylum in the
United States in 1988. Settled in Morristown, New Jersey with mother and younger sister. Became a naturalized American citizen in 1993. Joined the Army in 1994
after graduating from high school, initially trained as a cavalry scout. Helped enforce the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina as an M3A3 Bradley Cavalry
Fighting Vehicle driver with the 4th Cavalry Regiment in 1995. Re-classed as a counterintelligence agent in 2000. Deployed to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the 201 st
Military Intelligence Battalion. Assigned to USSOUTHCOM's Joint Task Force-Bravo in Honduras, 2006. Participated in various counter-drug and force protection
activities and investigations while also serving the task force J2 (staff intelligence office) as a counterintelligence agent. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi),
French (Metropolitan/Standard), Portuguese, and Spanish; conversant in Garifuna, German, and Italian. Extremely well-conditioned physically. Endowed with a high
threshold for pain shaped by his life experiences and an innate unwillingness to give up against even the most overwhelming odds.

File Name: Katzenbogen, David L.

DOB: 1978-04-16 POB: Hibbing, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Bazooka Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/MAAWS Gunner (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Kinesiology, Athletic Training option (California State University-Fresno)

Relevant Training (partial list): Cavalry Scout AIT, Javelin Gunnery Course, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Military
Mountaineer Winter Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Pathfinder School, Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Anti-Armor Leaders Course,
Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
Rappel Master Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was a running back in college, an athletic standout on an overachieving Fresno State Bulldogs football team that compiled a
respectable 7-5 record in 2000 despite injuries to key members of the roster. Went undrafted in the 2001 NFL draft. Briefly considered a career in the CFL
but opted to enlist in the Army instead. Started his career as a cavalry scout with the 1 st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, served as an M3A3 Bradley
Cavalry Fighting Vehicle gunner in Iraq throughout 2004 and into 2005. Re-classed as an infantryman with the 1-4 Cav's inactivation in 2006. Joined the
75th Ranger Regiment after graduating from infantryman AIT. Participated in operations in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. Extremely proficient in the use of
the 84mm M3 Multi-role Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon System. A decisive fast-thinker with all the instincts of a natural survivor.
File Name: Kelly, Gabriel A.
DOB: 1981-04-14 POB: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Barbecue Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Security Man/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Mechanical (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Fire Protection Technology (Fayetteville Technical Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Firefighter AIT, Airport Rescue Fire Fighting Truck Operator Certification, Pumper Operator Certification, Fire Protection Apprentice
Course, Rescue Technician I Course, Rescue Technician II Course, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Infantryman AIT, Ranger School, ISAF SOF Operations Course, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: The seventh Kelly in his direct ancestral line to become a firefighter (a Fergus Kelly is listed as one of the founding members of the first
Boston Fire Department, formally organized in 1859). Joined the Army in 2001, assigned to Fort Bragg's Fire and Emergency Services Division after completing
firefighter AIT. Served as an aircraft crash/fire/rescue specialist at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. Re-classed as an infantryman upon his
return from Southwest Asia, assigned to the 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) in 2006. Returned to Afghanistan in 2007. Has earned a reputation among
teammates as something of a “party animal,” almost excessively exuberant and enthusiastic during the occasional off-hours social gatherings organized by agency
augmentees and employees. Despite this, he has managed to avoid getting into situations necessitating disciplinary action or formal censure from authorities or
his superiors, and the results of informal monitoring of his behavior by agency human resources personnel and incidental observations by teammates of his off-
base socialization show no indications of a serious potential to abuse alcohol or other psychoactive recreational substances. Powerfully built and exceptionally
strong and agile, gifted with phenomenally quick reflexes.

File Name: Kibbey, Alvin R.

DOB: 1973-01-07 POB: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA
Call-Sign: Breaker Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Communications Chief (Detachment Command Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Memphis), Advanced Study Program Fellowship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Professional Education), AA in Farsi (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Pathfinder School, Basic Airborne School,
Ranger School, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS Qualification Phase (SF Communications Sergeant), SFQC Collective Training Phase, SF
Functional Language Training, SF Military Free Fall Parachutist Course; Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; SF
Operations and Intelligence Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master
Course, Rappel Master Course, White House Communications Agency Console Control Operations Course, Special Operations Terminal Air Control Course,
Battlefield Spectrum Management Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, Tactical Information
Operations Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 1995 an outspokenly idealistic recent college graduate. Quickly disabused of any romanticized notions of war
after witnessing firsthand the atrocities committed by the principal belligerents in Bosnia while conducting security and peacekeeping operations in 1996 and
1997 as a member of the 2nd Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion. Participated in operations enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 1244, calling for the
demilitarization of the Kosovo Liberation Army, in 1999. Went Special Forces in 2003. Has since participated in numerous missions supporting Operation
Enduring Freedom, most notably in Georgia and Uzbekistan. Efficient and self-assured, confident in his ability to turn any adverse situation into an advantage
with the proper application of knowledge and reason. Fluent in Albanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Persian (Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), and Uzbek;
conversant in Georgian, German, and Macedonian.
File Name: Kiley, Thomas P.
DOB: 1978-06-09 POB: Ida Grove, Iowa, USA
Call-Sign: Maverick Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Pilot (Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 3rd Special Operations Squadron, 27th Special Operations Wing, 27th Special Operations Group (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Aeronautical Engineering (United States Air Force Academy), MS in Engineering Management (Air Force Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Initial Flight Screening, USAF Specialized Undergraduate Training, Transitional and Operational Flight Training (AC-130H
Spectre/AC-130U Spooky), USAF Weapons School (AC-130H Spectre/AC-130U Spooky), Flight Commander Course, Organizational Leadership Course,
Expeditionary Leadership Course, Squadron Officer School, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft Schoolhouse training,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Introduced to flying at an early age, mother a crop duster pilot who would occasionally take the young Thomas with her to work. Graduated
from the top of his class at the US Air Force Academy. Received the Order of Daedalians Orville Wright Achievement Award for his outstanding performance during
undergraduate pilot training. Assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron 2002 after completing AC-130U Spooky qualification. Flew close air support, air
interdiction, and force protection missions over Iraq from 2003 to 2006. Sent to the L-3 Platform Integration Waco facility and Robins Air Force Base in 2008 for C-
27J Spartan mission qualification training and to serve as part of an expert team evaluating the C-27J Spartan for possible adoption by the Air Force Special
Operations Command as a C-130 platform replacement (AFSOC would eventually decide to retain its C-130-based special operations aircraft).

File Name: King, Owen

DOB: 1978-02-21 POB: Bangor, Maine, USA
Call-Sign: Sneak Peek Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Regimental Reconnaissance Company, Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in English (Vassar College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Combat Lifesaver
Course, Joint Firepower Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, ISTC Patrol Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, ISAF SOF
Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Decided to forgo a career in popular literature and enlisted in the Army in 2001. Assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment
stationed in Germany. Participated in numerous training exercises with American and European combat units deploying to the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan
as part of the 1-4 Infantry's OPFOR mission. Helped train Greek internal security forces in the lead-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Deployed to
Afghanistan with other elements of the Battalion to reinforce ISAF during the country's national elections, participating in security and force protection missions,
including an armed reconnaissance patrol that extended into the mountainous region of Zabul province. Joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment in 2006. Returned to
Afghanistan in 2009 as a member of the Regimental Reconnaissance Company, conducting special reconnaissance missions in support of elements of
Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A). Stories of his feats of endurance in the battlefield (both factual and apocryphal) have
elevated his status to that of a legend in the 75th Ranger Regiment's Special Troops Battalion.
File Name: Klas, Nicholas D.
DOB: 1977-12-25 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Hardtop Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Aircraft Loadmaster (Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 9th Special Operations Squadron, 1st Special Operations Group, 1st Special Operations Wing (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Construction Management (McHenry County College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Basic Pavements & Equipment Operator Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Enlisted Aircrew Undergraduate Course, Combat Survival Training Course, Water Survival-
Parachuting Course, Basic Loadmaster Course, SERE Level-C Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked in the construction industry before enlisting in the military. Began his Air Force career in 2000 as a pavements & construction
equipment operator with the 819th RED HORSE (for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers). Assigned to the
squadron's Airborne RED HORSE (ARH) team after completing US Army airborne and air assault training. Took part in various civil engineering operations
in Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, 2004 to 2005. Re-classed as an aircraft loadmaster in 2006. Joined the 9 th Special
Operations Squadron that same year. Participated in a number of missions involving the infiltration, exfiltration, and resupply of special operations forces as
well as PSYOP support sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan throughout 2008. Approaches the tasks of aircraft loading, offloading, and load-balancing with a
perfectionist's bent. Laconic and curt in conversation. Not unfriendly but places a high-value on precision and efficiency in all things, even his social
interactions.

File Name: Kranseler, Lawrence M.

DOB: 1982-09-18 POB: Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Wide Scope Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Tracking Dog Handler (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 13th Military Police Company, 92nd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Criminal Justice (Texas A&M University-Central Texas)

Relevant Training (partial list): Military Police AIT, Military Working Dog Handler Course, Combined Detector Dog Handlers Course, CBP-CETC Basic Narcotic
Detection Course LE, CBP-CETC Passenger Processing Course LE, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course,
Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Police Investigator
Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, Protective Service Training Course, High Risk Personnel Security Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, SRT Phase I Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, SRT Phase II (Marksman/Observer) Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 2002. Deployed to Iraq in 2004, was a member of an MP platoon sent to Afghanistan's Kandahar province in the
spring of the following year to support a joint task force composed of elements of the 173 rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, the Afghan National Army, and
France's 13e Régiment de Dragons Parachutistes.special forces unit in combat operations against entrenched insurgents. Returned to Iraq in 2006,
participated in various corrections and security activities, as well as training local police personnel in contemporary law enforcement tactics and techniques. A
crack pistol shot and trained special reaction team marksman/observer. Fiercely protective of the working dogs he is partnered with, but is affable and easy-
going off-duty.
File Name: Krieger, Courtney A.
DOB: 1981-10-07 POB: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Cover Girl Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Driver (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 546th Transportation Company (Light-Medium Truck), 7th Transportation Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business Administration (Campbell University-Fort Bragg/Pope AFB)

Relevant Training (partial list): Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Freight Traffic Course, Installation Traffic Management Course, Passenger Travel Specialist
Course, Military Standard Transportation & Movement Procedures Course, Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3) Training; Force XXI Battle
Command, Brigade-and-Below (FBCB2) Software Familiarization Training; Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Automated Air Load Planning System
(AALPS) Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Camp Adder Combat Logistical Patrol (CLP)
Academy Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, Anti-terrorism Evasive Driving-Staff Driver Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Employed as a print and runway fashion model by the Ford Models agency's New York office prior to enlistment. A growing
disillusionment with the modeling industry convinced her to put new direction in her life. Joined the Army in 2003. Initially assigned to the 6 th Transportation
Battalion after completing motor transport operator AIT. Participated in Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) operations in Honduras and Guatemala in 2004,
deployed to Iraq later that year. Transferred to the 82nd Sustainment Brigade's 7th Transportation Battalion in 2006. Stationed Iraq in 2007 through 2008,
performing her duties in support of the MNF-I in and around Baghdad governorate. Finds that she must work against stereotypical notions about beauty and
gender to prove herself to the less progressively-minded. Compelled to learn and master conventionally “unfeminine” disciplines.

File Name: Kunitz, David F.

DOB: 1972-03-28 POB: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Call-Sign: Ozone Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: CBRN Chief (Operations Section, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 21st Chemical Company (Administrative Control), 82nd Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Physics (Pennsylvania State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Chemical Operations Specialist AIT, Technical Escort Course, NBC Reconnaissance Course, Biological Integrated Detection Systems
Course, Field Identification of Biological Warfare Agents Course, Master Fox Scout Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Joint Biological Agent
Identification and Diagnostic System Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Field
Management of Chemical & Biological Casualties Course, Weapons Intelligence Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Father worked as a security guard at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and witnessed firsthand the events in 1979 that came to
be known as the Three Mile Island Accident. Enlisted in the Army in 1995 after graduating from Penn State. Assigned to the 2 nd Chemical Battalion after completing
chemical operations specialist (now called CBRN specialist) AIT. Temporarily seconded to UNSCOM in 1996, accompanied UN weapons inspectors in their survey of
the al-Hakam Special Weapons Center in Iraq. Attached to the multinational Iraq Survey Group (ISG) in 2003, conducted fact-finding and CBRN intelligence
operations throughout Iraq in search of functional Iraqi WMDs (weapons of mass destruction). Returned to his parent unit in 2005 after the ISG concluded in its final
report that Iraq had no functional WMD stocks in 2003. Joined the 82nd Special Troops Battalion that same year. Deployed to southern Iraq in support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom, 2006–2007. Analysis of incidental records of his personal interactions with GIJOE teammates seems to indicate that his choice in military career was at
least partially motivated by childhood anxieties that have been sublimated into a healthy respect for the attendant risks that come with living in a post-Atomic Age
world.
File Name: LaFitte, Etienne R.
DOB: 1974-12-31 POB: Bayou Gauche, Louisiana, USA
Call-Sign: Gung-Ho Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: HVT Tracker Team Leader (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Outdoor Leadership (Palomar College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Combatant Diver Course, Basic Airborne School, Remote Sensor
Operator Training, Infantry Squad Leaders Course, MEU(SOC) Certification Joint Training, RUTEX Training, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Desert
Operations Course, Fast Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course,
JWTC Jungle Skills Course, Advanced Personnel Administration Course, JWTC Jungle Endurance Course, JWTC Combat Tracking Course, Reconnaissance &
Surveillance Leaders Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF
Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Born into a large Cajun clan. Moved to New Orleans at the age of 16, tried his luck as an amateur boxer where he had some success,
displayed professional pugilistic potential but was eventually dismissed by his trainer for his continued use of roughhouse tactics in competition. Spent the next two
years working in construction and completing his GED requirements. Enlisted in the Marines in 1993. Initially assigned to the 13 th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Took
part in maritime interdiction operations in the Persian Gulf supporting Operation Southern Watch (1997), was a VBSS team member in the successful boarding of
multiple merchant vessels in violation of UN sanctions against Iraq. Served in operations protecting and evacuating American and third-country nationals caught in
the Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998). Joined the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company in 1999. Went to East Timor in 2000, conducted reconnaissance operations in
support of INTERFET units. Deployed to Iraq in 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Re-assigned to the 1 st Reconnaissance Battalion's Force Recon Company after
1st Force Recon's deactivation in 2006. Participated in counterinsurgency operations in Al Anbar governorate in Iraq throughout 2005 and into 2006. Fluent in
Louisiana Creole and French (Metropolitan/Standard and Louisiana Regional/Cajun dialect), conversant in Spanish. Wields the KA-BAR combat/utility knife with
deadly precision, favors a restored, Vietnam War-vintage EX-41 multiple grenade launcher as his weapon of choice on reconnaissance patrols.

File Name: Lane, David S.

DOB: 1967-11-18 POB: Los Angeles, California, USA
Call-Sign: Surefire Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Detachment Commander (Detachment Command Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 37th Military Police Detachment, 10th Military Police Battalion (CID) (Airborne), 3 rd Military Police Group (CID) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement option (California State University-Los Angeles); AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language
Center), Master of Public Administration (Troy University-Fort Jackson)

Relevant Training (Partial List): LAPD Police Academy Training, Advanced Tactical Training (LAPD Police Academy), Cultural Diversity Training (LAPD Police
Academy), Spanish Language Training (LAPD Police Academy), Civil Liabilities Training (LAPD Police Academy), Officer Candidate School, Military Police Officer
Basic Course, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Ranger School, Conventional Physical Security Course, IPTM Interviews and Interrogations Course,
IPTM Crime Scene Reconstruction Course, IPTM Criminal Investigative Techniques Course, IPTM Homicide Investigation Course, IPTM Advanced Interviews and
Interrogations Course, IPTM Fraud Investigation Course, Antiterrorism Officer Basic Course, High Risk Personnel Security Course, Military Police Captains Career
Course, Antiterrorism Officer Advanced Course, Criminal Antiterrorism & Police Intelligence Management Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course, Military Police Pre-Command Course, Law Enforcement Senior Leaders Course, Command & General Staff School, Antiterrorism Evasive Driving Course-
Senior Officer, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Grew up in a single-parent household in Los Angeles' notoriously crime-ridden Central City East (“Skid Row”) neighborhood. Only sibling, a
sister six years his senior, died of a heroin overdose when the younger Lane was twelve. Attended Cal State on an academic scholarship. Joined the Los Angeles
Police Department after receiving his degree in criminal justice. An active proponent of culturally-sensitive community policing strategies throughout his seven-year
tenure with the LAPD. Entered the Army's Officer Candidate School in 1998. Led a military police detachment in support of Task Force Falcon elements in Kosovo
in 2000 and 2001. Joined the 10th Military Police Battalion (CID) (Airborne) in 2003. Deployed to Iraq in 2005 and 2007. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and
Iraqi) and Spanish.
File Name: Larivee, Thomas J.
DOB: 1970-08-17 POB: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Call-Sign: Stretcher Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Ambulance Team Chief (Medical Treatment Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Independent Duty Corpsman (USN) attached to B Company, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Paramedic Studies (Capital Community College), AS in Respiratory Care (Manchester Community College), BS in Health Science (Goodwin College)

Relevant Training (partial list): EMT Training (Capital Community College), EMT-Paramedic Certification (Capital Community College), Hospital Corpsman "A"
School, Field Medical Service Technician Training, Search and Rescue Medical Technician Training, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Combatant Diver Course,
Special Operations Combat Medic Course, Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman Diving Medicine Training, Basic Airborne School, JWTC Jungle
Trauma Course, CBRE Clinicians Course, Independent Duty Corpsman School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military
Mountaineer Summer Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Navy in 1993 after a brief stint as a paramedic with the Hartford Hospital's LIFE STAR Air Medical Transportation Service.
Deployed to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba aboard the USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) in 1994, helped provide afloat and ashore medical and surgical
support to American and allied forces taking part in Operation Uphold Democracy as well as Haitian citizens in need of emergency medical and surgical
attention. Became a Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Corpsman in 1995. Deployed to the Balkans in 1996 as an attached member of the USMC's 24 th
Marine Expeditionary Unit, engaged in supporting operations enforcing the conditions of the Dayton Peace Accords alongside joint NATO forces. Took part in
Operation Dynamic Response exercises in Kosovo (2000) and Albania (2001). Has served on deployments to Iraq (2003, 2004, and 2005) and Afghanistan
(2008) as a Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Independent Duty Corpsman. A recreational powerlifter in his spare time, has competed in numerous amateur
deadlift and squat events in the 90 kg weight class.

File Name: Lavigne, Christopher M.

DOB: 1978-04-20 POB: Houston, Texas, USA
Call-Sign: Law Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Tracking Dog Handler (HVT Tracker Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Joint Security Force, Joint Task Force-Bravo (USSOUTHCOM)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement (San Jacinto College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Basic Police Training (Houston Police Academy), CBP-CETC Basic Narcotic Detection Course LE, CBP-CETC Passenger
Processing Course LE, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course, Military Police AIT, Basic Airborne School, Military
Working Dog Handler Course, Combined Detector Dog Handlers Course, Air Assault School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course,
Rappel Master Course, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, Protective Service Training Course, High Risk Personnel
Security Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Commercial Vehicle Counterterrorism Training Program, Critical Infrastructure Protection
Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Walked a beat in Houston's notorious “Gulfton Ghetto” area. A veteran of numerous violent confrontations between police and gangs
such as the Southwest Cholos and the local chapter of the Mara Salvatrucha. An expert detection dog handler, has received inter-agency cross-training in
narcotics detector dog handling, passenger processing passive response detector dog handling, and backcountry fugitive tracking. Enlisted in the Army in 2004
in search of a more fulfilling professional law enforcement career. Assigned to the Joint Security Force component of USSOUTHCOM's Joint Task Force-Bravo
in the Honduras after completing military police AIT. Participated in a number of force protection, search and rescue, and counter-drug operations in support of
USSOUTHCOM objectives, including the successful rescue of a kidnapped American expatriate and the arrest of his captors in 2008. Fluent in Spanish.
File Name: LeClaire, Daniel M.
DOB: 1970-07-09 POB: Wheaton, Wisconsin, USA
Call-Sign: Recondo Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Visual Tracker (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Community and Environmental Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, JOTC Jungle Warfare Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Airborne School,
Ranger School, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, SFQC Individual Skills Phase, SFQC MOS Qualification Phase (SF Weapons Sergeant), SFQC
Collective Training Phase, SF Functional Language Training; Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course; Operations and
Intelligence Course, Advanced Special Operations Techniques Training, Combat Lifesaver Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, British Army Jungle Tracking Course, British Army Jungle LRRP Course, Battle
Staff NCO Course, Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO
SOF Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in 1994, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light). Served a six month tour in the Sinai peninsula as a member of the
USBATT Contingent of the MFO in 1995, and again in 1996. Took part in joint training exercises and security patrols in Panama in 1997. Participated in Operation
Joint Forge in the Balkans in 1998, went Special Forces soon thereafter. Trained Northern Alliance fighters in Afghanistan in 2001 as a member of a 3 rd Special Forces
Group detachment. Conducted counterinsurgency operations alongside ISAF units in 2002 and 2003. Participated in clandestine operations in Haiti in 2004. From
2005 to 2007, deployed as a technical adviser to Colombian government forces in their counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency operations against the FARC-EP and
other criminal paramilitary organizations. Spent most of 2008 on exchange at British Military Garrison Brunei, studied the finer points of jungle reconnaissance and
combat tracking with the Brigade of Gurkhas Training Team while also serving as a guest instructor at the British Army Jungle Warfare Training School. Fluent in
French (Metropolitan/Standard), Haitian Creole, Nheengatu, Portuguese, and Spanish; conversant in Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), Malay/Indonesian, and Thai.

File Name: Leialoha, Edward W.

DOB: 1968-04-26 POB: Aiea, Hawaii, USA
Call-Sign: Torpedo Pay Grade: W-3
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader/Reconnaissance Diver (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: SEAL Team 1, Naval Special Warfare Group ONE (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Domestic Security Management (National University-Naval Base Coronado Learning Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Torpedoman's Mate "A" School, Very Shallow Water Mine Countermeasures (VSWMCM) Operator Training, Basic Swimming
and Water Survival Instructor Course, Surface Rescue Swimmer Training, Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL training, SEAL Qualification Training, SEAL
Professional Development Phase Training, SEAL Unit Level Training, SEAL Squadron Integration Training, Basic Airborne School, Military Free Fall Parachutist
Course, Air Assault School, Tactical Rope Suspension Technician Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, Camp Michael Monsoor
Mountain Warfare Training, Camp Michael Monsoor Special Reconnaissance Training, Desert Environmental Survival Course, JWTC Jungle Skills Course,
SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Chief Warrant Officer Program, Joint Special Operations Irregular Warfare Advanced Course,
ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: A scuba diving instructor before joining the Navy in 1989. Served as a torpedoman's mate aboard the USS Curts (FFG-38) from 1990 to
1994. Saw action in Operations Desert Storm and Fiery Vigil in 1991. Participated in exercises with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in 1993. Joined
NAVSPECWAR in 1995. Went on joint training exercises with Indonesian and Malaysian combat diver units between 1996 and 1998. Was part of Task Force
K-Bar, one of the first joint special operations teams to enter Afghanistan in late 2001 after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Served on a
JSOTF-P Combat Advisory Team conducting foreign internal defense operations targeting Abu Sayyaf insurgents in the Southern Philippines throughout 2004
and into 2005. Received his warrant officer's commission in 2006. Returned to Afghanistan in 2007 to conduct missions alongside ISAF SOF units. Fluent in
Hawaiian, conversant in Japanese, Malay/Indonesian, Min Nan (Hokkien dialect), and Tagalog. A thoroughly schooled practitioner of Seigokan Gōjū-ryū karate,
Shorinji kempo, and bājíquán (Eight Extremes Fist), and is an expert in the use of the balisong (Filipino butterfly knife) in combat. Strict vegetarian. Carries
himself with a somewhat detached and chilly demeanor, but is regarded by teammates as a consummate professional.
File Name: Levin, Robert A.
DOB: 1975-06-19 POB: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Call-Sign: Backstop Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/NSTV Driver (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 8th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Homeland Security/Emergency Management (Pikes Peak Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Bradley Leaders Course, Anti-Armor Leaders
Course, Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Bradley Master Gunner Course, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Born into a large French-Canadian clan. Showed early flashes of athletic potential playing AAA-league Atom/Pee Wee division hockey.
Immediate family moved to Detroit, Michigan for economic reasons when he was twelve. Was a Silver Gloves 106 lbs. weight class amateur boxing champion at
the age of 14. Became a naturalized American citizen in 1992. After high school, represented the Detroit Golden Gloves Franchise in consecutive 165 lbs. National
Title fights before embarking on a career as a professional monster truck driver. Competed in numerous USHRA-sanctioned events between 1996 and 2000 with a
custom-built truck nicknamed “Persuader.” Enlisted in the Army in 2001. Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment (Mechanized) after graduating from
infantryman AIT. Took part in some of the heaviest fighting against Republican Guard forces during the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003).
Returned to Iraq in 2006 and again in 2008, performed security operations as well as helped train elements of the newly re-organized Iraqi Army. Fluent in French
(Metropolitan/Standard and Quebec dialect).

File Name: Li, Nicholas

DOB: 1977-03-10 POB: New York City, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Tunnel Rat Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Explosives (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 57th Engineer Company (Rough Terrain), 27th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Civil Engineering Technology (New York City College of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Javelin Gunnery Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Engineer Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Sapper Leader Course, Ranger
School, SERE Level-C Training, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Rappel Master Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Weapons Intelligence Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from a Trinidadian Chinese family, parents and siblings run a small but relatively successful Chinese Caribbean-themed eatery
along Brooklyn's 8th Avenue. Grew up hard in the streets of New York, but was smart enough to stay out of any serious trouble. Worked as a sewer and
drainage maintenance worker before joining the Army in 2001. Assigned to the 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) after completing Combat Engineer
AIT. Deployed to northern Iraq in 2003, participated in land surveys, combat patrols, and mobility/countermobility operations in support of elements of the 101 st
Airborne Division. Sent to Afghanistan in 2006 on a year-long deployment to provide combat engineering support to CJSOTF-A and ISAF units. Engaged
Taliban-backed insurgents and various armed smugglers in numerous operations to clear mountain dugouts being used by enemy elements in the provinces of
Kunar and Nangarhar. Attached to the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team's Special Weapons Exploitation Team in 2007, taking part in sensitive
site exploitation operations throughout the 1/82 Airborne's area of responsibility in northern Iraq. Fluent in Cantonese/Yue (Standard dialect) and Trinidadian
Creole English, conversant in Bhojpuri (Caribbean Hindustani dialect), Spanish, and Tobagonian Creole English. Audacious and bold, but never to the point of
impudence or recklessness. His short stature and slight build (Army records list his height at 5'4”/162.5 cm and weight at 130 lbs./60 kg) belie a wiry strength
and a rugged constitution.
File Name: Light, Robert
DOB: 1973-11-30 POB: Springfield, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Snake-Eyes Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Countertracker/Rear Security Man (HVT Tracker Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Activities Division, JFCC-ISR (USSTRATCOM)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Asian Studies (University of Maryland University College Asia)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Pathfinder School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Ranger
School, NATO LRRP School Patrol Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist
Course, Combat Diver Qualification Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 1 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 2 Instructor Course, Modern Army
Combatives Level 3 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 4 Instructor Course, British Army Jungle Tracking Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking
Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army in 1993. Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone, where he
would serve alongside and forge a friendship with future independent military contractor and COBRA Command consultant Tomasiburo Arashikage (alias: Storm-
Shadow). Joined the 75th Ranger Regiment in 1997. Deployed to Kosovo in 2000 as part of a Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment Team that included
Arashikage and future GIJOE member Lonzo Wilkinson (call-sign: Stalker). Deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Rhino (2001). Survived a helicopter crash that
killed two fellow Rangers while on standby for a CSAR mission, but the accident left him with severe facial scarring and partially paralyzed vocal cords despite the
best efforts of Army surgeons and speech therapists. Placed on the Temporary Disability Retirement List in 2002. Immediate family killed in a vehicular accident later
that same year. Spent the next three years in Japan studying philosophy and martial arts with Arashikage, who had returned to the ancestral family home after
separating from the service. Returned to active duty (with assignment limitations due to his vocal impairment) in 2006, attached to the JFCC-ISR's Special Activities
Division. Sent to Afghanistan in 2008, conducted clandestine ISR operations in support of USSTRATCOM objectives. Fluent in American Sign Language and
Japanese. Besides Arashikage-ryū bujutsū, also schooled in Kodokan judo, Lacoste-Inosanto kali, muay thai, and Seigokan Gōjū-ryū karate.

File Name: London, Robert

DOB: 1976-03-30 POB: Seattle, Washington, USA
Call-Sign: Rapid Fire Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Platoon Leader (Intelligence & Surveillance Platoon Headquarters, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Human Geography (United States Military Academy), MA in International Relations (Saint Mary's University-Fort Hood)

Relevant Training (Partial List): Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Infantry Officer Basic Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Airborne
School, Air Assault School, Ranger School, Maneuver Captains Career Course, Infantry Mortar Platoon Leaders Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course, Tactical
Intelligence Familiarization Course, Military Intelligence Officer Transition Course, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Defense Against Sound
Equipment Course, Military Intelligence Captains Career Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Introduction to Networks & Computer Hardware
Course, Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, NATO SOF Intel Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Each year about 200 qualified Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard soldiers are offered entry to the US Military Academy Preparatory
School. Of that number, a select few are offered direct admission to the US Military Academy. London was offered direct admission in his second year as an enlisted
infantryman with the 14th Infantry Regiment (Light) on the strength of the endorsement of his company commander. Commissioned as an infantry officer in 2002.
Served as B Company executive officer, 2nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) during the unit's 2003 deployment to Afghanistan. Returned to Afghanistan in
2005, conducted security operations near the Pakistan border. Made the transition to the Military Intelligence Corps in 2006. Assigned to the newly organized 504 th
Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion in late 2007. Deployed to Iraq in 2008. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi), French
(Metropolitan/Standard), and German; conversant in Hebrew, Persian (Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), Russian, and Spanish. Possesses a powerful drive to succeed
in all he does that is exceeded only by his unwavering determination to do what is best for a given mission.
File Name: Lydon, Terrence
DOB: 1979-01-12 POB: Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Grid-Iron Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Training Officer (Training Cadre, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 4th Ranger Training Battalion, Ranger Training Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Kinesiology (United States Military Academy), Master of Public Administration, Government option (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantry Officer Basic Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Air Assault School, Basic
Airborne School, Ranger School, Maneuver Captains Career Course, Infantry Mortar Platoon Leaders Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Instructor
Course, Cadre Training Course, Systems Approach to Training Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 1 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 2
Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 3 Instructor Course, Modern Army Combatives Level 4 Instructor Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification
Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Played quarterback for the US Army Black Knights football team. Graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 2002. Assigned
to 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Fought alongside the 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) against loyalist troops and Fedayeen Saddam irregulars
as part of a task force conducting an airborne assault on Saddam International Airport in Baghdad during the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003).
Joined the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2005. Participated in counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan through 2007. Re-assigned to 5th Ranger Training Battalion,
Ranger Training Brigade shortly after his return from Southwest Asia. Besides serving as company commander for the battalion's A Company, also taught as a
senior instructor at the Fort Benning-based US Army Combatives School. Conversant in Spanish. Has trained extensively in Greco-Roman wrestling, muay thai,
American kickboxing, and Gracie Barra jiu-jitsu. Outgoing and gregarious almost to a fault.

File Name: Lynton, Felix N.

DOB: 1970-05-13 POB: Pensacola, Florida, USA
Call-Sign: Skydive Pay Grade: E–8 (MSG)
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 7- HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 4th Ranger Training Battalion, Ranger Training Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BBA in Management (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Pathfinder School,
Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic
Instructor Course, Small Group Instructor Training Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Battle Damage Assessment Course, Master Resilience Trainer Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 1991, trained as an infantryman, assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light). Participated in
combat operations in Somalia and Haiti and joint security activities in Saudi Arabia, 1993–1995. Joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment in 1996. Deployed to Kosovo
in 2000 as part of a 75th Ranger Regiment C2 element supporting Operation Joint Guardian. Conducted counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, 2001.
Took part in airborne assaults in Baghdad governorate in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Transferred to the Ranger Training Brigade in 2004,
where he would earn a reputation as one of the toughest and most exacting Ranger Instructors on cadre. Fluent in Spanish, conversant in Arabic (Iraqi),
French (Metropolitan/Standard), and Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects).
File Name: Makepeace, Philo R.
DOB: 1974-07-27 POB: Huachuca City, Arizona, USA
Call-Sign: Armadillo Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/NSTV Driver (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in General Studies (Central Texas College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Semi-trailer, Tank Truck, and Hazardous Materials-endorsement Commercial Driver training; Cavalry Scout AIT, Javelin Gunnery
Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Bradley Master
Gunner Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Father a retired sergeant formerly assigned to the US Army Communications Command based in Fort Huachaca. Exhibited a fascination
with driving and heavy vehicles at an early age. Trained to be a commercial long haul truck driver after high school, plied the National Network and Primary System
roadways of the Southwest for several years before deciding to follow in his father's footsteps and join the military. Completed cavalry scout AIT, 2001. Assigned to
the 3rd Infantry Division's armored reconnaissance squadron, the 6-8 Cavalry, in 2004. Performed combat patrols, security operations, and persistent manned ISR
activities in the areas south of Baghdad throughout 2005, occasionally engaging insurgents in heavy fighting along the once-notorious Baghdad Airport Road
(“Route Irish”) area. Returned to Iraq in 2007, helped train elements of the Iraqi Army's 9 th Armored Division.

File Name: Mangiaratti, Thomas P.

DOB: 1973-01-05 POB: Boulder Creek, California, USA
Call-Sign: Long Arm Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Physical Security Operations Supervisor (Physical Security Team 2, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 40th Military Police Company, 185th Military Police Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade (USARNG)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Administration of Justice (Los Angeles City College), BS in Public Policy, Management and Planning (University of Southern California)

Relevant Training (partial list): LAPD Police Academy Training, Advanced Tactical Training (LAPD Police Academy), Mobile Field Force Tactics Training (LAPD
Police Academy), Cultural Diversity Training (LAPD Police Academy), Police Air Support Operations (LAPD Police Academy), Spanish Language Training (LAPD
Police Academy), Civil Liabilities Training (LAPD Police Academy), NTOA Basic SWAT Training, Military Police AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fast
Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical Security Course,
Protective Service Training Course, SRT Phase I Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, SRT Phase II (Marksman/Observer) Course, High Risk Personnel Security
Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Suicide Bomber Mitigation Training Program, Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course, Commercial Vehicle
Counterterrorism Training Program, Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1995. Participated in a number of high-profile police operations against armed urban gangs
such as the Mara Salvatrucha and the 14K Triad. Decorated for his actions during the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout. Entered the LAPD's Metropolitan Division in
1999, assigned to the division's “D” Platoon (Special Weapons and Tactics). Signed up for Army National Guard duty in 2002, joined the 185 th Military Police
Battalion. Participated in airport security operations across the United States in support of Operation Noble Eagle from 2002 to 2006. Deployed to Kosovo in 2004
in support of NATO peacekeeping operations. Performed and supervised evacuation security operations during the Southern California wildfires of 2007. Deployed
to northern Iraq in 2008, participated in Iraqi Police professionalization training and convoy security missions. Fluent in Italian and Spanish.
File Name: Martell, Jane A.
DOB: 1959-10-03 POB: Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: GI Jane Pay Grade: GS–14
Duty Assignment: Command Communications-Electronics Officer (Office of the Director, C 2E)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Command and Control Systems and Software Division, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Nursing (Salve Regina University), BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Denver), MS in Electrical Engineering (California Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (Partial List): Officer Indoctrination School, Foreign Service Institute Transition Center Security Overseas Seminar, Information Security
Orientation, OPSEC Fundamentals Course, Department of Defense Information Assurance Awareness Course, GIJOE Basic Small Arms Proficiency for Non-
Military Personnel Course, GIJOE Basic Combatives for Non-Military Personnel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Navy in 1982 after graduating from the Salve Regina University with a nursing degree. Assigned to the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After a whirlwind romance, married future GIJOE director Joseph Colton (call sign: Eagle-Eye) in 1983, spent the rest of the year on
maternity leave. Separated from the service in 1989 and moved with the couple's six year-old son, Joseph, Jr., to Denver to be close to Colton's posting at Fort
Carson. Found herself disinterested in a civilian nursing career and unwilling to become a full-time homemaker, enrolled in the University of Denver's electrical
engineering program. Graduated magna cum laude in 1995. Worked for local telecommunications provider Diversified Group before joining the fledgling New York-
based L-3 Communications company in 1997. Served as team lead and field test technical adviser for a number of classified ISR systems and secure
communications projects contracted by the Department of Defense. Son killed during the Battle of Nasiriyah in Iraq in 2003 while serving as a soldier in the Army's
3rd Infantry Division. Divorced amicably from Colton in 2004. Left L-3 Communications in 2007 to earn her master's degree from CalTech.

File Name: McBride, Cooper G.

DOB: 1977-06-22 POB: Crosby, North Dakota, USA
Call-Sign: Low-Light Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Sniper/Spotter (Detachment Headquarters STA Sniper Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology (University of North Dakota)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Pathfinder School,
Sniper School, Basic Instructor Course, Small Group Instructor Course, Ranger School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Special Operations
Target Interdiction Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO
Technical Exploitation Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Despite an initial reluctance on his part, was taught at an early age by father in the rudiments of shooting. Introduced to varmint
hunting at ten years old. Brought down his first four point buck at the age of 12. Volunteered with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department throughout
high school. Joined the Army after graduating from the University of North Dakota in 2000, assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment (Light).
Participated in joint security and training exercises in Uzbekistan, 2001. Took part in Operation Anaconda in the mountains of Afghanistan, 2002. Deployed
to Afghanistan's Paktika province in 2003 for Operation Enduring Freedom, conducted humanitarian assistance and combat operations from forward
operating bases near the towns of Gardēz, Shkin, and Orgune. Returned to the US in 2004. Joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment in 2005. Graduated from the
Special Operations Target Interdiction Course at the top of his class, besting much more experienced 75 th Ranger Regiment and Special Forces senior
marksmen. On cadre with the 2nd Battalion's Ranger Training Detachment throughout most of 2006. Returned to Afghanistan in 2007, conducted
surveillance and target acquisition sniper operations in support of CJSOTF-A and ISAF units in the country's northeastern provinces.
File Name: McCarthy, David B.
DOB: 1975-12-27 POB: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Blocker Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Motor Vehicle Maintenance Supervisor (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Automotive Test Division, Yuma Test Center, Yuma Proving Ground (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering (Northern Arizona University-Yuma)

Relevant Training (partial list): Wheel Vehicle Mechanic AIT, Basic Airborne School, Automotive Electrical Systems Repair Course, Wheel Vehicle Recovery
Specialist Course, Defense Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Course, Mechanical Maintenance NCO
Common Core Course, Support Operations Course Phase I, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Drove a taxi in Boston for three years hoping to earn enough money to attend a top-flight university engineering program. Joined the Army in
2000 after a stretch where his cab was held-up four times in as many months, convinced that the military offered a much more fulfilling avenue towards a higher
education. Assigned to the 782nd Main Support Battalion as a mechanic after graduating from wheel vehicle mechanic AIT. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2003,
provided support to elements of the 82nd Airborne Division during Operation Eagle Fury. Deployed to Iraq the following year, staying in-country through 2005.
Joined the Yuma Test Center's Automotive Test Division in 2006. Responsibilities at the Center included maintaining various prototypes for the Joint Light Tactical
Vehicle and Future Tactical Truck Systems programs and providing detailed product evaluation to contractors and system designers. Besides being a supremely
skilled automotive mechanic, is also an excellent driver familiar with the operation of all light and medium wheel vehicles in the US Army inventory and their
associated systems.

File Name: McConnell, Craig S.

DOB: 1977-08-11 POB: Malibu, California, USA
Call-Sign: Rock 'n' Roll Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Cover Man (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Regimental Reconnaissance Company, Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Exercise Science (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Light Leaders Course, Anti-Armor Leaders Course, SERE Level-C
Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Advanced Foreign Weapons Familiarization Training, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, ISTC Patrol Course, Ranger Assessment &
Selection Program, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: An amateur weightlifter and semi-professional surfer before joining the military. Won a reputation as a bass guitar virtuoso playing for local
area rock bands. Enlisted in the Army in 2001. Spent his initial term of service with the 4 th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment (Light). Deployed to the Horn of Africa
region in 2003 through early 2004, taking part in joint training exercises and combat patrols in support of CJTF-HOA. Received extensive familiarization training
with the AK-47 assault rifle and related weapons systems in cross-training exercises with military personnel from Djibouti and Ethiopia. Spent most of the
remainder of 2004 and the the first half of 2005 stationed in Baghdad, performing combat operations and security patrols to ensure the successful completion of
Iraq's national elections. Participated in a number of air assault operations in the south of the Baghdad governorate. Joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment's
Regimental Reconnaissance Company in 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, emplaced surveillance and tactical equipment in Taliban-controlled areas in
Nangarhar province. Perspicacious, if somewhat naive. Outwardly easygoing, but possesses an inherent and uncompromising sense of justice and fair play.
File Name: McMahon, Aaron
DOB: 1979-02-14 POB: Walnut, California, USA
Call-Sign: Ambush Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Countertracker/Rear Security Man (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 30th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Environmental Studies (Columbia College-Fort Stewart)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking School, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Raised in a relatively affluent Los Angeles suburb. Developed an early sense of appreciation for the outdoors and the importance of
fieldcraft skills as a Boy Scout (Troop 789). Worked at the Saddleback Butte State Park Visitor Center as a staff member and equestrian trail guide prior to
enlisting in the military in 2002. Assigned to the 1 st Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment after completing infantryman AIT, honed his combat skills in
numerous Joint Readiness Training Center exercises in Fort Polk, engaging light infantry and special operations units in intense and comprehensive mock-
combat as a member of the OPFOR. Deployed to Iraq with the 1 st Battalion's B Company in 2004, taking part in numerous counterinsurgency and security
operations in and around Baghdad. Re-assigned to the 1-30 Infantry in 2006. Returned to Iraq in mid-2007 for another tour of duty. An indefatigable and quietly
efficient worker, possesses a keen eye for detail and an unerring sense for improvisation in the field.

File Name: Melendez, Rafael J.

DOB: 1977-08-23 POB: New York City, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Zap Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/MAAWS Gunner (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Civil Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Javelin Gunnery Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Infantryman AIT, Anti-Armor Leaders Course, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C
Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Rappel Master Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from an upper middle-class family of Puerto Rican origin with an established tradition of civic duty and volunteerism, brother a
Harlem-based attorney known for his pro bono work, sister a pediatrician with Médecins Sans Frontières. Joined the Army in 2001. Initially trained as a combat
engineer, assigned to the 37th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat). Saw combat in Northern Iraq, 2003. Deployed to Afghanistan in
2006, engaged Taliban-backed forces alongside elements of the 10th Mountain Division in the eastern and southern regions of the country while also contributing
to provincial reconstruction and humanitarian efforts. Re-classed as an infantryman in 2007 and joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment soon thereafter. Returned to
Afghanistan in 2008 as a member of the CJSOTF-A forces operating in Kunar province. Fluent in Spanish. Has a knack for finding and exploiting the built-in
weaknesses in earthen bunkers and similar structures, a skill he uses to great effect with tactical explosive devices and the M3 MAAWS.
File Name: Menninger, Edward J.
DOB: 1981-10-14 POB: New York City, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Backblast Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Deception Operations Supervisor-Combat Arms/LAAD Systems Expert (Tactical Deception Group Camouflage & Concealment Team, C 2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: I Troop (Air Defense), 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Natural Science/Math (Barstow Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Certificate in Information Systems Management (Barstow Community College), Air and Missile Defense Crewmember AIT, Basic
Airborne School, Pathfinder School, Air Assault School, Stinger Fighting Vehicle Master Gunner Course Phase I, Stinger Fighting Vehicle Master Gunner Course
Phase II, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Family lived in a small apartment in Queens just off the Van Wyck Expressway near the John F. Kennedy International Airport. Given their
home's proximity to one of the world's busiest air terminals and the concomitant exposure to the non-stop cacophony of jet aircraft take-offs and landings and the
intrusive flashing of landing lights, it was perhaps not surprising that the young Menninger developed an early and long-standing aversion to flight and all manner
of commercial aircraft. Negative attitudes towards commercial jet aircraft and flight further amplified in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World
Trade Center. Enlisted in 2002, initially assigned to a Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle Battery in the 3 rd Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment. Oft-stated
claim that the decision to join the Army's Air Defense Artillery branch was motivated by a desire to directly confront his anxieties is made only partially in jest,
derives a strong sense of personal satisfaction from the tracking and destruction of airborne targets. Conducted air and missile defense operations in the Korean
Demilitarized Zone throughout 2003 and into 2004. Re-assigned to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment's I Troop (Air Defense) in late 2004. Deployed to Iraq's
Baghdad governorate with the rest of the regiment's 1st Squadron in 2005. Returned to the US the following year, participated in various exercises at the National
Training Center in Fort Irwin as part of the Regiment's OPFOR mission, lending his air and missile defense experience and expertise not only to I Troop, but also to
the OPFOR Deception Force's missile decoy teams.

File Name: Metzger, Wendell A.

DOB: 1971-11-01 POB: Stromsburg, Nebraska, USA
Call-Sign: Leatherneck Pay Grade: E–8 (MSgt)
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Reconnaissance Training Company, Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry (West) (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in History (California State University-San Marcos)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Basic Reconnaissance Course, Combatant Diver Course, Basic Airborne School, Infantry Squad Leaders
Course, MEU(SOC) Certification Joint Training, NATO LRRP School Patrol Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope Suspension Technician
Certification & Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, JWTC Jungle Skills Course, Desert Operations Course,
Marine Combat Instructor Course, Drill Instructor School, Advanced Personnel Administration Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Battle
Damage Assessment Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior NCO Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Marines in 1991, assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Took part in security missions protecting ethnic Kurds in
Northern Iraq from government reprisals in the wake of Operation Desert Storm throughout 1992. Deployed to the Balkans in support of Operation Deny Flight and
Operation Provide Promise (1994). Supported IFOR units in Bosnia throughout 1996. Joined the 2 nd Force Reconnaissance Company in 1998. Participated in joint
training programs in Germany, Egypt, and Israel in 1998, including an extended exercise with the elite Fernspählehrkompanie 200 at the NATO LRRP School in
Pfullendorf. Was a member of a Marine detachment charged with protecting American nationals in Albania later that same year. Deployed to Iraq in 2003 during
the beginning stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Returned to Iraq in 2004, and again in 2005, providing deep reconnaissance support to conventional and special
operations forces. With 2nd Force Recon's deactivation in 2006, re-assigned to the School of Infantry (West) as an instructor in the Reconnaissance Training
Company. Conversant in German. Brutally honest, holds no qualms about being seen as uncouth and opinionated. Has no patience with those he considers
indecisive, lazy, and dishonest. Not terribly popular with his GIJOE teammates, but someone they trust and respect on and off the field.
File Name: Mewett, Clifford V.
DOB: 1973-01-28 POB: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Courage Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Command Intelligence Officer (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Expeditionary Support Branch, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (USMC)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Political Science, International Relations specialty (University of California-San Diego); MS in Information Operations-Joint Information Operations
Curriculum (Naval Postgraduate School), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Marine Rifleman Course, Machine Gunner Course, Machine Gun Leaders Course, Infantry Squad Leaders Course, MEU(SOC)
Certification Joint Training, Officer Candidates School, The Basic School, MAGTF Intelligence Officer Course, Counterintelligence Officer Course, Advanced
Counterintelligence Course, Multi-Discipline Counterintelligence Analysis Course, Counter-terrorism Analyst Course, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation
Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, NATO SOF Intel Course,
NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the service in 1991 straight out of high school. Started his military career as an enlisted rifleman, assigned to the 15 th Marine
Expeditionary Unit. Participated in humanitarian relief distribution and convoy escort missions in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope (1992-1993) and in Rwanda
(1994). Spent most of the mid-1990s involved in peacekeeping and security operations throughout Eastern Africa. Received his officer's commission in 2001 through
the Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Educational Program (MECEP) after graduating from Boston University. Served as company S-2, B Company, 2 nd Light
Armored Reconnaissance Battalion on two seven-month deployments to Iraq: the first in 2003, the second in 2004. Re-assigned to the Marine Corps Intelligence
Activity's Expeditionary Support Branch in 2005. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard, Iraqi, and Yemeni). Values authenticity, efficiency, and precision; has little
tolerance for artifice and bureaucratic double-talk.

File Name: Meyers , Andrew D.

DOB: 1976-03-17 POB: Gary, Indiana, USA
Call-Sign: Footloose Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: 89 credit hours towards the fulfillment of the requirements for the BS in Kinesiology, major in Physical Education Teacher Education (Indiana University-
Bloomington)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Pathfinder School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Collateral Damage Estimation
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Valedictorian of his high school class and captain of the track team. Accepted into IUB on an academic scholarship. Was 35 credit hours
away from earning a bachelor's degree in kinesiology when he unexpectedly left school and hitchhiked his way to the West Coast. Spent the next three years
living in a California bohemian commune. Was selling overpriced bead necklaces to Venice Beach tourists when he heard news of the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Enlisted in the Army not long after, his extremely high ASVAB line scores mitigating any negatives suggested by his
past personal history. Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Spent his first deployment overseas in Iraq, conducting combat patrols
in the city of Kirkuk through most of 2003. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, working alongside ISAF forces in Zabul province. Returned to Afghanistan in early
2008 for another tour, this time, in the country's northeast. GIJOE teammates will occasionally have their laughs at his expense, poking fun at the time he spent
as a folk art-peddling New Ager. But the jokes never go beyond innocuous jabs. They know that in many ways, Meyers' journey is a microcosm of the one
collectively being taken by a whole generation of arrested adolescents still trying to come to terms with their place in a new world filled with fear and
uncertainty. It may have taken a tragedy of truly horrific proportions to make him realize the frivolousness of an existence built around self-indulgent
complacency, but all that really matters to them now is that he's trying to do all the right things and make his way through the world the best that he can.
File Name: Michaels, Leonard
DOB: 1981-03-20 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Scoop Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Imaging Equipment Operator (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), 114th Signal Battalion, 21st Signal Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Electronic Publishing (Southwestern Illinois College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Documentation/Production Specialist AIT, Information Security Orientation, Department of Defense Information Assurance
Awareness Course, Insider Threat Course, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Combat Lifesaver Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Weapons Intelligence Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as a “cable puller” for Chicago's WMAQ-TV while putting himself through college, eventually becoming a station cameraman and
videographer. Worked at the station for three years, growing increasingly appalled at television journalism's growing disposition towards sensationalism and
scandal-mongering. Joined the Army in 2004 intent on a change in work environment. Assigned to the 114th Signal Battalion's 55th Signal Company (Combat
Camera) after completing combat documentation/production specialist AIT. Spent ten weeks in Afghanistan with the 2 nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment (Light),
documenting the unit's initial forays into Taliban-controlled territory in 2006, engaging in close quarters combat on occasion. Attached to the 1 st Squadron, 91st
Cavalry Regiment (Airborne) in 2007, capturing for posterity images of ISAF forces conducting combat and humanitarian missions. Familiar with most COTS
analog and digital still and motion cameras, trained in the use and basic upkeep of all standard DoD-issue analog and digital still and motion cameras, portable
power generation equipment, and electronic/film-based image processing, editing, and printing software and equipment.

File Name: Millman, Peter R.

DOB: 1976-09-08 POB: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Call-Sign: Spearhead Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion (Assault), 101st Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Business (Tacoma Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Pathfinder School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Squad Designated
Marksman Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Born in the Midwest, family moved to Tacoma, Washington when he was eight. A highly successful insurance salesman in the Pacific
Northwest before joining the military. It was joked in Seattle metropolitan area insurance professional circles that he “could sell a term policy to a dead cow.” Well-
liked and trusted in the community. Enlisted in the Army in 2002 out of a sense of duty and responsibility more than anything else. Assigned to F Company
(Pathfinder), 4th Battalion (Assault), 101st Aviation Regiment in 2005. Deployed to Iraq later that year, conducted assault zone reconnaissance missions for air
assault operations originating primarily from Forward Operating Base Remagen on the outskirts of Tikrit. Returned to the United States in 2007. Eloquent and
persuasive in his speech but never insincere. A natural-born leader, but instinctively knows when to defer to others.
File Name: Morelli, Giacomo S.
DOB: 1977-10-01 POB: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Call-Sign: Dial-Tone Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Transmission Operations Supervisor (Communications Station 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Signal Detachment (Europe), 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion, 528th Sustainment Brigade (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Physics, Applied Physics option (Oregon State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Pathfinder School, Radio
Operator-Maintainer AIT, Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPRLS) Net Control Station Operator Course, Network Management (ENM) NCS-A
Enhanced Operator Course, White House Communications Agency Console Control Operations Course, SERE Level-C Training, Department of Defense
Information Assurance Awareness Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master
Course, Special Forces Basic Combat Course-Support, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: An avid electronics hobbyist since his early teens. Built a 386BSD-based personal computer at the age of sixteen using parts bought with
money earned from bagging and delivering groceries. Joined the Army out of high school in 1996, initially seeing it as a means to earn money for a college
education. Served as an infantryman with the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (Air Assault), taking part in hurricane relief operations in El Salvador and
Nicaragua in 1998, deploying for six months as a member of the American MFO contingent in the Sinai Peninsula in 1999, and serving on an OPFOR and desert
warfare training rotation at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in 2000. Separated from the service in early 2001. Received his bachelor's degree in physics
from Oregon State in 2005, worked briefly as a university laboratory assistant before re-enlisting in 2006. Joined the 112 th Special Operations Signal Battalion after
graduating from Radio Operator-Maintainer AIT, assigned to the battalion's European detachment. Supported ISAF and CJSOTF-A operations in eastern and
northeastern Afghanistan throughout 2008. Fluent in Italian, conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Portuguese, and Spanish.

File Name: Moreno, Dillon L.

DOB: 1978-01-03 POB: Los Angeles, California, USA
Call-Sign: Wreckage Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Explosives (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 58th Combat Engineer Company, Regimental Support Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Anthropology (University of California-Los Angeles)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Military Free Fall
Parachutist Course, Javelin Gunnery Course, Engineer Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Sapper Leader Course, Ranger
School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Rappel Master Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Youngest child of comfortably middle-class parents. Gave no indications at all that he was interested in a career in the military growing up,
so it was a surprise to both parents and his siblings when he joined the Army almost immediately after graduating from UCLA in 2002. As a member of the 20th
Engineer Brigade's 27th Engineer Battalion, participated in combat patrols and mobility/countermobility operations in support of the 101 st Airborne Division in
northern Iraq throughout 2003. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, where he worked and fought Taliban-backed insurgents alongside CJSOTF-A and ISAF units. In
2007, transferred to the 58th Combat Engineer Company (“The Red Devils”), a combat engineer unit tasked with supporting the 11 th Armored Cavalry Regiment's
OPFOR mission at the Ft. Irwin National Training Center. Conducted extensive self-directed studies in traditional Soviet Sapjornaja Armija (Sapper Army) and
contemporary Russian military engineering tactics and doctrine in preparation for his role as a “Krasnovian” sapper. Used his experiences in Southwest Asia to
inform his part in the “People's Parumphian Guerillas” OPFOR unit as an insurgent specializing in the use of IEDs and combat demolition. Conversant in Persian
(Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), Russian, Spanish, and Tagalog. A workhorse on and off the field, noted by teammates to have a bizarre, almost morbid, sense of
humor.
File Name: Morgan, Mark Jr.
DOB: 1961-03-12 POB: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Call-Sign: Payload Pay Grade: GS–15
Duty Assignment: Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Pilot/Aircraft Commander (Medium Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft Team, STEEL Detachment)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Alenia North America, Inc.
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Aeronautical Engineering (United States Air Force Academy), MS in Flight Test Engineering, Experimental Test Pilot track (USAF Air University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Initial Flight Screening, USAF Specialized Undergraduate Training, Transitional and Operational Flight Training (A-10A Thunderbolt
II), Transitional and Operational Flight Training (AC-130H Spectre), USAF Weapons School (AC-130H Spectre), Mission Qualification Training (C-27A Spartan),
Flight Commander Course, Mission Qualification Training (MC-130H Combat Talon II), Mission Qualification Training (AC-130U Spooky), Organizational
Leadership Course, Expeditionary Leadership Course, Squadron Officer School, C-27J Qualification Training (Alenia North America), GIJOE Basic Small Arms
Proficiency for Non-Military Personnel Course, GIJOE Basic Combatives for Non-Military Personnel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1984. Assigned to the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Myrtle Beach. Flew A-10A Thunderbolt
II ground attack aircraft during Bright Star exercises in Egypt in 1985 and again in 1987. Transitioned to flying the AC-130H Spectre gunship in 1989, flew close air
support missions over Panama in support of Operation Just Cause (1990) as a member of the 16 th Special Operations Squadron. Participated in Operation Desert
Storm, engaged Iraqi heavy armor during the Battle of Khafji. Provided protection for UN relief convoys in Somalia, 1993–1994. Transferred to the 310 th Airlift
Squadron in 1995, returned to Panama, flying C-27A Spartan transports out of Howard Air Force Base on joint counter-narcotics and counterinsurgency operations
with the Panamanian Air Force. Applied and was accepted into the USAF Test Pilot School in 1998, graduated top of his class, 1999. Assigned to the to the 412 th
Flight Test Wing, put MC-130H Combat Talon II and AC-130U Spooky aircraft through their paces with the 418 th Flight Test Squadron from 2000 until his retirement
from the service, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in 2004. Hired by Alenia North America in 2005 to serve as a consultant on their C-27J Spartan program, then
the leading candidate for the Department of Defense's Joint Cargo Aircraft requirement. Worked as an instructor at the C-27J Joint Cargo Aircraft Schoolhouse
located at Robins Air Base in early 2009.

File Name: Moore, Harlan W.

DOB: 1975-10-29 POB: Rutland, Vermont, USA
Call-Sign: Snow-Job Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Statistics (University of Vermont)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Squad Designated Marksman Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, NWTC Cold Weather
Leaders Course, MWTC Scout Skier Course, Sniper School, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training,
NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: An alternate on the 1998 Winter Olympic Games US men's biathlon contingent, and a fourth place finisher in the 2000 and 2001
Biathlon World Championships individual and sprint events. Feeling that he had progressed in the sport as far as he could under the national biathlon
team's guidance, enlisted in the Army in 2001 in search of a different approach to training, a development welcomed by a US Army Recruiting Command
looking to further raise the service's public profile and a national biathlon program desperate for its first Olympic medal. Participated in Operation
Avalanche, Operation Mountain Blizzard, and Operation Mountain Storm in Afghanistan's Paktika province as a member of 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st
Infantry Regiment in 2003. Returned to Fort Richardson, Alaska with the rest of the 1-501 Infantry in the summer of 2004. To the consternation of USA
Biathlon, re-enlisted in 2005 and declined participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics altogether. Excelled during sniper training, due in no small part to his
Olympic-level rifle marksmanship skills. Deployed to Iraq in 2006, conducting full-spectrum missions out of Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah. Took part
in contingency operations in Al Anbar governorate in 2007. Has a well-deserved reputation among his GIJOE comrades as a prankster and practical joker.
File Name: Morris, Earl S.
DOB: 1974-02-16 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Bulletproof Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Platoon Leader (Physical Security Operations Platoon Headquarters, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Military Police Officer (USMC) attached to the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Contingency Response Field Office
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Political Science (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Master of Systems Analysis (Naval Postgraduate School)

Relevant Training (partial list): US Marshals Service Basic Training Program, US Marshals Service Protective Investigations Training, IPTM High Risk Warrant
Service Course, IPTM Tactical Drug Law Enforcement Course, US Marshals Service Special Operations Group Qualification Course Advanced Airborne
Counterdrug Operations Training, Officer Candidates School, The Basic School, Military Police Officers Basic Course Commercial Vehicle Counterterrorism
Training Program Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program Reactive Shooting Instructor Training Program Vehicle Ambush Countermeasures Training
Program Survival Shooting Training Program Protective Detail Refresher Program, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course Law
Enforcement Supervisor Leadership Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Started his law enforcement career as a federal marshal with the US Marshals Service in 1997. Assigned to duties with the Federal Witness
Protection Program before joining the Service's full-time Special Operations Group cadre stationed at the Marshals Service Tactical Operations Center in 2000.
Participated in a number of interagency counter-narcotics operations along the US-Mexico border in 2001. Left the US Marshals Service in late 2002, entered
Marine Corps OCS in 2003, graduated at the top of his class. Attached to the NCIS Contingency Response Field Office in 2004. Conversant in French
(Metropolitan/Standard), Italian, and Spanish. Highly discerning and observant, possesses acutely honed survival instincts eminently suited to overseeing
personnel protection and physical security operations.

File Name: Morris, Lamont A.

DOB: 1977-05-21 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Heavy Duty Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Cover Man (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 52nd Infantry Regiment (Anti-Tank) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Instrumental Performance (Columbia College Chicago)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Stryker Transition Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault School, Combat Lifesaver
Course, Basic Airborne School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Anti-Armor
Leaders Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Ranger School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Graduated cum laude from Columbia College Chicago with a bachelor's degree in instrumental performance, specializing in classical guitar.
Worked briefly writing jingles for a local advertising agency before embarking on a career as a studio musician, appearing on albums by prominent Chicago-based
popular music acts. Found commercial music work to be unsatisfying on an emotional, artistic, and economic level. Enlisted in the Army in 2004. Assigned to the
3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team's separate anti-tank company. Deployed to Iraq in 2006, served on a combat outpost near the Iraq's border with Syria in the first
few months of his 15-month tour. Would take part in weapons cache raids in and around Baghdad during the latter portion of his deployment. Meticulous and
detail-oriented, approaches the work of a soldier with the same creative passion and single-minded dedication he exhibits in his artistic endeavors.
File Name: Mulholland, Brian K.
DOB: 1972-07-02 POB: New York City, New York
Call-Sign: Big Brawler Pay Grade: E–8 (MSG)
Duty Assignment: Deception Operations Chief-Counterintelligence (Tactical Deception Group Headquarters, C 2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Military Intelligence Company, Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Psychology (University of Maryland University College Asia), AA in Korean (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Intelligence Analyst AIT, Enhanced Tactical User Terminal Course, Collection Management-TENCAP System Specific Module,
Intelligence in Combating Terrorism Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Counterintelligence Special Agent Course, Ranger Assessment & Selection
Program, Combat Lifesaver Course, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, Advanced Foreign
Counterintelligence Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, JWTC Jungle Skills Course, JWTC Jungle Endurance
Course, Introduction to Networks & Computer Hardware Course, Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, NATO SOF Intel Course, Battle Staff NCO Course,
NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army in 1991. Assigned to the 524 th Military Intelligence Battalion and stationed in South Korea after graduating from intelligence
analyst AIT. Re-classed as a counterintelligence agent in 1997. Served on a twelve-month deployment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006 as a member of Task Force
Mongoose. Made the move to the 75th Ranger Regiment Special Troops Battalion's Military Intelligence Company in early 2007. Trained alongside elements of the
441st Military intelligence Battalion (Forward Collection) at the Camp Gonsalves Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa in 2008. Fluent in Korean; conversant in
Arabic (Iraqi), Japanese, and Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects). A yi dan (second degree black belt) in Kukkiwon taekwondo, has also received extensive training in
muay thai and JJIF-rules Sport ju-jitsu.

File Name: Nash, Clifton L.

DOB: 1979-07-17 POB: Brownsville, Texas, USA
Call-Sign: Iceberg Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Homeland Security and Emergency Management (Central Texas College-Fort Richardson/Elmendorf AFB)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Stryker Transition Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault School, Combat Lifesaver
Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Basic Airborne School, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, NWTC Cold Weather Leaders Course,
Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Reconnaissance &
Surveillance Leaders Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army in 2001, initially assigned to the 1 st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. Participated in numerous OPFOR
exercises with light infantry and special operations units in the Mojave desert area as a member of the 1 st Squadron's mechanized infantry A Troop. Deployed
to Baghdad in 2005, participating in full-spectrum missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Having had his fill of living, working, and fighting in arid
environments, went out of his way to get assigned to a cold weather duty station upon extending his enlistment, eventually getting his wish by being sent to the
1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Returned to Iraq in 2006, conducting security, direct action, and armed
reconnaissance missions out of Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah. Took part in contingency operations in Al Anbar governorate in 2007. Conversant in
Spanish.
File Name: Natale, Gregory M.
DOB: 1974-01-11 POB: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA
Call-Sign: Blizzard Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Training Branch, Northern Warfare Training Center, 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Northern Studies, minor in Arctic Skills (University of Alaska-Fairbanks), AA in Russian (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Basic Military Mountaineer
Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Assault Climber Winter Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, NWTC Cold Weather Leaders Course,
MWTC Scout Skier Course, Ranger School, Basic Instructor Course, Small Group Instructor Training Course, ISTC Patrol Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, NATO SOF
Technical Exploitation Course, Battle Damage Assessment Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Spent the bulk of his pre-GIJOE military career stationed in Alaska. Joined the Army out of high school in 1993, assigned to the 1 st Brigade,
6th Infantry Division (Light), staying with the unit through its 1998 re-flagging as the 172 nd Infantry Brigade (Separate) and posting at Fort Wainwright. Attended the
nearby University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Received his bachelor's degree in 2002. Served on an extended 16-month deployment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, seeing
combat numerous times in the greater Baghdad area. With the 172nd Infantry Brigade's inactivation in December of 2006, assigned to the US Army Northern
Warfare Training Center's Training Branch. Served as a Mobile Training Team instructor in JCET exercises with the Danish Jægerkorpset in Greenland in 2008.
Fluent in Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Russian; conversant in Danish, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut and Inuktun dialects), and Nunavut (Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun
dialects). Outwardly grim and sullen except in the most unguarded situations. Physically and mentally tough, totally dedicated to the craft of cold weather survival
and the science of cold region warfare.

File Name: O'Hara, Shana M.

DOB: 1975-11-05 POB: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Call-Sign: Scarlett Pay Grade: W-2
Duty Assignment: Counterintelligence Technical Officer (Counterintelligence Team, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company (CI/HUMINT), 524th Military Intelligence Battalion, 501st Military Intelligence Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Computer and Information Science, minor in Asian Studies (University of Maryland University College Asia), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Intelligence Analyst AIT, Enhanced Tactical User Terminal Course, Collection Management-TENCAP System Specific Module,
Intelligence in Combating Terrorism Course, Counterintelligence Special Agent Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Defense Strategic Debriefing &
Interrogation Course, Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction
Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Warrant Officer Candidate School, Counterintelligence
Technician Warrant Officer Basic Course, Introduction to Networks & Computer Hardware Course, Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, NATO SOF Intel
Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Father and three older brothers all martial arts instructors. Began serious martial arts training at the age of eight, received her first degree
black belt in Kukkiwon taekwondo at age 16. Awarded the shodan rank in Kodokan judo shortly after graduating from high school. Received extensive training in
the use of the Zhūgě nǔ (ancient Chinese repeating crossbow) and sunogung (medieval Korean repeating crossbow). Worked as a junior instructor in her father's
martial arts studio before joining the Army as an enlisted intelligence analyst in 1997. Initially assigned to the 532 nd Military Intelligence Battalion stationed in Camp
Humphreys, South Korea. Re-classed as a counterintelligence agent in 2001, re-assigned to A Company (CI/HUMINT), 524 th Military Intelligence Battalion. Took
part in various counterintelligence operations near the Korean DMZ in 2002 and 2004. Conducted counterintelligence missions in Iraq in 2005 while assigned to
the MNF-I Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Camp Cropper. Received her warrant officer appointment in 2006. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and
Iraqi), Japanese, and Korean; conversant in Mandarin (Standard dialect). Quick-thinking and resilient, able to deal with fast-moving, ambiguous, and unstructured
situations; has maintained a healthy sense of humor despite the high levels of stress associated with counterintelligence work.
File Name: Owens, Cory R.
DOB: 1977-03-28 POB: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Call-Sign: Lightfoot Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Disposal NCO (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 744th Ordnance Company, 63rd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Chemistry (Wichita State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): EOD Specialist AIT, EOD Advanced Access & Disablement Course, EOD Advanced Management & Technology Course,
Technical Escort Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISSEE IED Technician
Course, ISSEE Weapons Intelligence Team Training/Joint IED Exploitation Course, ISSEE Booby Traps Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training,
NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as a chemist for Kansas-based smokeless small arms and artillery ammunition propellant maker the Hodgdon Powder
Company before enlisting in the Army in 2003. Joined the Ordnance Corps, seeing it as a natural extension of his civilian career. Deployed to Iraq in 2005,
providing EOD services to units conducting security operations in support of the country's national elections. Sent to Afghanistan in 2007 as a member of a
small EOD detachment supporting ISAF operations in Kandahar province. Trained alongside members of the British Army's 11 Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Regiment at the International School for Security and Explosives Education in Chilmark, Wiltshire, England in 2008. An assiduous student of the
science of bomb disposal; methodical and painstakingly precise in the execution of his duties.

File Name: Paolino, Michelino J.

DOB: 1979-02-17 POB: Parma, Ohio, USA
Call-Sign: Faces Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Interrogation & Strategic Debriefing Supervisor (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Psychology (Brown University), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Intelligence Analyst AIT, Enhanced Tactical User Terminal Course, Collection Management-TENCAP System Specific Module,
Human Intelligence Collector AIT, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO Intel Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, NATO Advanced Intel Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: The youngest son of Italian-American parents; father a civil engineer, mother a music teacher. Enlisted in the Army in 2002 after graduating
from Brown University. Initially trained as an intelligence analyst, assigned to the 24 th Military Intelligence Battalion. Re-classed as a HUMINT specialist in 2006,
transferred to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion in 2007. Served on a twelve month deployment in Iraq in 2008. Fluent
in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi), French (Metropolitan/Standard), Italian, and Spanish; conversant in German, Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), and
Portuguese. Cultivates an amateur stand-up comedy act in his spare time, although his limited repertoire has yet to go beyond crude off-color humor and
uncannily accurate impressions of celebrities.
Duty Assignment: Digital Forensics Investigator (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
File Name: Parker, Blaine L.
Call-Sign: Mainframe Pay Grade: E–6
DOB: 1968-11-10 POB: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Special Technical Operator (USMC) attached to the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) Southwest Field Office
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Computer Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Data Network Specialist Course, Defense Message System Course,
Tactical Data Systems Supervisor Course, Advanced Personnel Administration Course, Information Security Orientation, Department of Defense Information
Assurance Awareness Course, Insider Threat Course, USMC Network Operations Program training, Information Assurance Manager Course, Information
Assurance Technician Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Information Systems Security Professional Certificate, System
Administrator Certificate, Certified Ethical Hacker Program, Managing Computer Investigations Course, Advanced Log Analysis Course, Network Exploitation
Techniques Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army straight out of high school in 1986. Assigned to the 82 nd Airborne Division's 504th Infantry Regiment. Participated in
combat operations in Honduras during Operation Golden Pheasant (1988) and in Panama during Operation Just Cause (1989). Went to MIT after fulfilling his
active duty terms of service, graduating with a degree in computer science and engineering in 1994. Spent the latter half of the 1990s working as one of the top
programmers-for-hire in Silicon Valley. By 2000, found himself bored with the corporate grind and decided to return to the military, taking the unorthodox but
not-unheard-of option of joining the Marines as a non-Marine prior-service enlistee. Breezed through Marine combat training and data network specialist
training. A member of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity's Cryptologic Support Battalion from 1998 to 2005. Attached to the DCIS Southwest Field Office as
a Special Technical Operator in 2006. Digital forensic evidence he helped gather throughout 2007 and 2008 was instrumental in the 2009 indictment of a spy
caught attempting to acquire sensitive military and NSA-encryption gear from on-line auction and shopping website eBay. Conversant in Spanish. An avid NBA
fan, runs a fantasy basketball league in his spare time. Affable and genuinely humble, teammates and superiors alike are sometimes inclined to forget that he
has put in his time as an elite front-line fighter.

File Name: Perlmutter, Stanley J.

DOB: 1975-09-25 POB: Iselin, New Jersey, USA
Call-Sign: Mutt Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Tracking Dog Handler (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 108th Military Police Company (Air Assault) (Airborne), 503rd Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Criminal Justice, Correction Administration option (Middlesex County College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Correction Administration Certification (Middlesex County College) Law Enforcement Survival Spanish Training
Program, CBP-CETC Basic Narcotic Detection Course LE, CBP-CETC Passenger Processing Course LE, Military Police AIT, Air Assault School,
Basic Airborne School, Military Working Dog Handler Course, Combined Detector Dog Handlers Course Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Police Investigator Course, Conventional Physical
Security Course, Protective Service Training Course, High Risk Personnel Security Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness
Course, Military Working Dog Trainer/Kennel Master Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Suicide
Bomber Mitigation Training Program, JWTC Combat Tracking Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Spent five years working as a corrections officer and sentry dog handler at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility in
North Brunswick, New Jersey. Led a volunteer K-9 team in search of survivors in the ruins of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001
attacks. Joined the Army later that year. Deployed to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan as a member of the 65th Military Police Company (Airborne) in
2003, where he served as a military working dog handler until 2005. Transferred to the 108 th Military Police Company (Air Assault) (Airborne) in
2006. Designated company kennel master in 2007. Participated in inter-service cross-training exercises with USMC personnel stationed at Camp
Gonsalves, Okinawa in 2008. Returned to Afghanistan later that year as part of a Provincial-Police Mentor Team tasked with training Afghan National
Police units in Kandahar province. Conversant in Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects) and Spanish. Possesses an innate, almost instinctive, capability
for establishing rapport with animals, so much so that teammates sometimes think he prefers canine company over human socialization.
File Name: Pidel, Martin A.
DOB: 1982-10-03 POB: Yonkers, New York, USA
Call-Sign: Hard Drive Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Digital Forensics Investigator (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Office of Special Investigations Detachment 624, Kadena Air Base (USAF)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Computer Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Relevant Training (partial list): First Responder Certification (Massachusetts Emergency Care Training Agency), Basic Network Intelligence Analysis Course,
Information Security Orientation, Department of Defense Information Assurance Awareness Course, Certified Ethical Hacker Program, Insider Threat Course,
Special Investigators Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Advanced Log Analysis Course, Network Exploitation Techniques
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Born in Yonkers to second-generation nipo-brasileiro parents. Precociously articulate as a child. Skipped two grades in elementary school.
Entered MIT at the age of 16. As a collegiate wrestler in the 141 lbs. weight class, won All-American honors in his senior year. Turned down numerous lucrative job
offers in the software industry after graduating magna cum laude in 2002 and joined the Air Force as an enlisted network intelligence analyst. Joined the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations in 2007, assigned to the Kadena Air Base OSI Detachment in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan later that same year. Fluent in
Portuguese, conversant in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish. A polymath in the classic sense, constantly seeks to increase his knowledge of the world
around him, improve his physical abilities, and broaden his socio-cultural perspectives.

File Name: Pine, Albert M.

DOB: 1975-01-21 POB: Minidoka, Idaho, USA
Call-Sign: Alpine Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion (Light), 87th Infantry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Accounting (University of Idaho)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, Air Assault School,
Combat Lifesaver Course, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Assault Climber Winter
Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Light Leaders Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Instructor Course, Ranger School,
Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Took up mountaineering and rock climbing during college and continued as a recreational climber during his short tenure as an accountant for
Ballantine Books, even competing in a number of UIAA-sanctioned mountaineering and rock climbing events. Joined the Army in 2001, assigned to the 1st Battalion
(Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2003, taking part in armed reconnaissance and manhunt operations against Taliban-backed forces in
the harsh mountainous terrain of Paktika province. Transferred to the 1st Battalion (Light), 87th Infantry Regiment in 2006. Sent to Iraq in 2007 on a year-long
deployment in the Kirkuk governorate performing full-spectrum operations from Forward Operating Base Warrior and Kirkuk Air Base. Holds the unofficial Ranger
School Mountain Phase record for the fastest Yonah Mountain ascent. Conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard) and German. Genuinely friendly and
approachable, always ready with a humorous anecdote or an uplifting word.
File Name: Price, Daniel W.
DOB: 1977-08-19 POB: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
Call-Sign: Clean Sweep Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: CBRN Reconnaissance Scout (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division 1st Brigade Combat Team (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Chemistry (Campbell University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Topographic Surveyor AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, CBRN Specialist AIT, Technical Escort Course, NBC
Reconnaissance Course, Biological Integrated Detection Systems Course, Field Identification of Biological Warfare Agents Course, Joint Biological Agent
Identification and Diagnostic System Course, Master Fox Scout Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver
Course, Field Management of Chemical & Biological Casualties Course, Ranger School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as a garbage collector for Newark's Division of Sanitation before deciding to enlist in the Army in 2001. Initially trained as a
topographic surveyor, assigned to the 30th Engineer Battalion (Topographic) (Airborne). Deployed to Iraq in 2004, worked alongside E Company (LRS) (Airborne)
of the now-inactive 313th Military Intelligence Battalion in support of 82nd Airborne Division operations. Re-classed as a CBRN specialist in 2006. Joined the 82 nd
Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team Special Troops Battalion, where he was assigned to the headquarters and headquarters company's CBRN
reconnaissance platoon. Returned to Iraq in 2007, his tour extending well into 2008.

File Name: Provost, Philip M.

DOB: 1970-11-29 POB: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Call-Sign: Chuckles Pay Grade: W-2
Duty Assignment: Criminal Anti-Terrorism Investigator (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 87th Military Police Detachment, 10th Military Police Battalion (CID) (Airborne), 3 rd Military Police Group (CID) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Criminal Justice (Broward Community College), AA in Farsi (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center), BA in Criminology, minor in
Forensic Science (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

Relevant Training (partial list): Military Police AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Traffic Management and Accident Investigation Course, Military Police
Investigator Course, Conventional Physical Security Course, Criminal Investigation Apprentice Special Agent Course, Domestic Violence Investigative Techniques
Course, Child Abuse Prevention and Investigative Techniques Course, IPTM Interviews and Interrogations Course, IPTM Crime Scene Reconstruction Course,
IPTM Criminal Investigative Techniques Course, IPTM Homicide Investigation Course, IPTM Advanced Interviews and Interrogations Course, IPTM Fraud
Investigation Course, Warrant Officer Candidate School, CID Warrant Officer Basic Course, Procurement Fraud Investigation Training Program, SERE Level-C
Training, Cold Case Seminar, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Weapons Intelligence Course, Criminal Anti-terrorism & Police Intelligence Management
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as a freelance insurance fraud investigator in Fort Lauderdale, Florida before joining the Army in 1997. Started his military career as
an MP with the 108th Military Police Company (Air Assault) (Airborne), re-trained as a CID special agent in 2002. Performed force protection and criminal anti-
terrorism operations in support of Task Force Devil in Afghanistan throughout 2003 as a member of the 87 th Military Police Detachment, 10th Military Police
Battalion (CID) (Airborne). In 2004, sent to Iraq to conduct investigations into various offenses allegedly perpetrated by American soldiers ranging from desertion,
fraud, robbery, murder, and sexual assault. Received his warrant officer appointment in 2006. In 2007, attached to the 82 nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat
Team's Special Weapons Exploitation Team, taking part in sensitive site exploitation operations throughout the 1/82 Airborne's area of responsibility in northern
Iraq. Received his bachelor's degree from UNC-Wilmington in 2009. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi), Persian (Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), and
Spanish; conversant in Hebrew, Portuguese, and Russian. A “man's man” by most definitions of the phrase. Confident but unpretentious, tough but adaptable,
easygoing but never heedless. Possesses a disarmingly jocular disposition that cloaks an uncompromising dedication to seeing justice served.
File Name: Pulaski, Ralph W.
DOB: 1972-08-20 POB: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Call-Sign: Steeler Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Detachment Commander (Detachment Command Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop (LRS) (Airborne), 2nd Battalion, 38th Cavalry Regiment, 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (University of Pennsylvania); Master of Business Administration, Management concentration
(University of Mary Hardin-Baylor)

Relevant Training (partial list): Army ROTC Basic Course, Army ROTC Leaders Training Course, Army ROTC Advanced Course, Army ROTC Leader Development &
Assessment Course, Armor Officer Basic Course, Basic Airborne School, Javelin Gunnery Course, M2/M3 Fighting Vehicle Commanders Course, Scout Leaders
Course, Air Assault School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Tactical Intelligence Familiarization Course, Pathfinder School,
Ranger School, Joint Fires Observer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, ISTC Patrol Course, Armor
Captains Career Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, Contemporary Insurgent Warfare Course, SERE Level-C
Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Command & General Staff School, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification

Miscellaneous Notes: Comes from a blue-collar working class background. Put himself through college on an ROTC scholarship and work as a heavy equipment
operator. Commissioned as an Armor officer in 1997, assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment. Led a cavalry scout platoon during ARFOR-T's extended 500
mile route reconnaissance of southeastern Turkey and the Turkey-Iraq border in late 2002. In 2004, participated in operations around the Iraqi city of Tikrit as part of
Task Force Danger. Took part in joint training exercises with elements of Germany's KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte at the ISTC (formerly known as the NATO LRRP
School) in 2005. With the 1-4 Cavalry's inactivation in 2006, reassigned to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's Long Range Surveillance Troop. Returned to
Iraq in 2008, taking part in security and reconnaissance and surveillance operations in Ninawa governorate. Fluent in Polish, conversant in Arabic (Modern Standard
and Iraqi), German, and Turkish. Fiercely intelligent, intrepid, and outspoken; characteristics that have had him clashing with higher-ranking officers on more than one
occasion. Nevertheless, his GIJOE superiors have learned to trust his judgment in tactical matters given his proven record in the field.

File Name: Ram, Chakradhar

DOB: 1975-04-04 POB: San Diego, California, USA
Call-Sign: Cloudburst Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Parachute Rigging Supervisor (Parachute Rigging Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Rigger Detachment, Brigade Troops Battalion, 528th Sustainment Brigade (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Marketing (San Diego State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): United States Parachute Association Coach Rating Course, United States Parachute Association Tandem Instructor Course,
United States Parachute Association Accelerated Free Fall Instructor Course, Parachute Rigger AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master
Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Special Forces Basic Combat Course-Support, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Got into skydiving and paragliding in high school. Earned his skydiving “A” license at the age of 18. Qualified as a USPA-certified coach
less than two years later. Continued to engage in recreational skydiving and paragliding while working as a junior marketing executive for a San Diego-based
sporting goods company. Burnt out on the corporate rat race at the age of 27, decided to turn his passion for parachuting into a full-time career. Enlisted in the
Army to become a parachute rigger in 2002, assigned to the 612th Quartermaster Company (Aerial Delivery) after completing parachute rigger AIT. Deployed to
Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Would contribute to aerial delivery humanitarian relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's lashing of
the Gulf Coast in 2005. Transferred to the 528th Sustainment Brigade's Rigger Detachment in 2006. Participated in a number of aerial delivery activities
supporting US Army Special Forces elements operating in Afghanistan, 2007–2009. Conversant in Hindi-Urdu (Standard Hindi dialect).
File Name: Renwick, Richard
DOB: 1975-04-18 POB: South Bend, Indiana, USA
Call-Sign: Dodger Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section Chief (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Maintenance Troop, Regimental Support Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Management Studies (University of Maryland University College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Bradley Fighting Vehicle System Maintainer AIT, Track Vehicle Recovery Specialist Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault
School, M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Multi-capable Maintainer Course, Wheel Vehicle Mechanic AIT, Automotive Electrical Systems Repair Course, Defense
Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Mechanical Maintenance NCO Common Core Course, Stryker Armored Vehicle Operations/Maintenance New
Equipment/Organizational Training, Support Operations Course Phase I, Wheel Vehicle Recovery Specialist Course, Support Operations Course Phase II,
Mechanical Maintenance Senior NCO Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army in 1995. Assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Forward Support Battalion after completing Bradley Fighting Vehicle
System Maintainer AIT. Sent to Iraq in the summer of 2003, supporting elements of the 3 rd Infantry Division in Baghdad during the opening stages of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. Re-classed as a wheel vehicle mechanic in 2006, transferred to the Vilseck, Germany-based 2 nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment's Regimental
Support Squadron. Sent to Iraq in 2007 on a 15 month deployment in the Baghdad and Diyala governorates supporting the Regiment's mechanized infantry
squadrons. His expertise in the workings of all manner of standard and non-standard tactical vehicle systems makes him a valuable asset during extended
incursions into foreign and/or hostile territory.

File Name: Rich, Kenneth D.

DOB: 1974-02-05 POB:San Francisco, California, USA
Call-Sign: Psyche-Out Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Military Deception Officer (Tactical Deception Group Headquarters, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Joint Information Operations Warfare Center (USSTRATCOM)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Psychology (University of California-Berkeley); PhD in Clinical Psychology, Military Psychology track (Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences; AA in Farsi (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (Partial List): Officer Candidate School, AMEDD Officer Basic Leaders Course, AMEDD Captains Career Course, Basic Airborne School, Air
Assault School, PSYOP Officer Qualification Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, Military Deception Planner’s Course, Joint Special Operations
Collaborative Planning Course, Joint Special Operations Advanced Planning Applications Course, Air Assault School, Joint Special Operations Staff Officer
Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, Joint Information Warfare Staff and Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course,
Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Rose to prominence in the academic community as an undergraduate with his groundbreaking work on the application of stochastic
modeling in the analysis and prediction of pathological criminal and terrorist behavior. Joined the Army in 1997 upon his acceptance into the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences' Military Clinical Psychology Program. Continued to pursue his interest in the study of behavioral disorders in
graduate school, culminating in his doctoral dissertation entitled “The Incidence and Relationship of Audio Sensory Confusion and Induced Paranoid Disorder
in Enemy Combatants”. Worked briefly as an assistant professor at the school's Medical and Clinical Psychology Department. Served as a technical consultant
with the LRAD Corporation (formerly known as the American Technology Corporation), provided expert opinions on the possible military applications for their
man-portable long-range acoustic devices, particularly in tactical psychological operations. Found the the classroom and the laboratory as insufficient proving
grounds for his theories. Joined the 4th PSYOP Group's Target Audience Analysis Detachment in 2004. Transferred to USSTRATCOM's Joint Information
Operations Warfare Center in 2007. Fluent in Persian (Dari, Farsi, and Tajiki dialects), conversant in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Russian, and Spanish.
File Name: Riley, Thomas P.
DOB: 1975-10-07 POB: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Call-Sign: Downtown Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Commando Mortarman (LRRS Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Allied Sports Professions, Sport Manager specialization (Cleveland State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Indirect Fire Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Ranger Assessment & Selection
Program, Basic Airborne School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Infantry Mortar Leaders Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO
SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Excelled in athletics in high school, entered Cleveland State University on an athletic scholarship. Was the starting point guard for the
CSU Vikings basketball team for all four years of his post-secondary education, setting the school record for career free-throw percentage and three-pointers
made and attempted. Played professional basketball in Russia after graduating from university, spending two seasons with the Russian Basketball Super
League's BC Khimki Moscow Oblast team as a key reserve. Returned to the United States after his contract expired. Joined the Army in 2001, initially assigned
to the 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. Participated in numerous OPFOR exercises with light infantry and special operations units in the Mojave
desert area as a member of the 1st Squadron's mechanized infantry A Troop. Deployed to Baghdad in 2005, participating in full-spectrum missions in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cross-trained with British Army and Bulgarian Army MNF-I personnel in the use of the 51 mm and 60 mm commando mortars. Honed
his skills in the use of the weapon as a member of the OPFOR Hellfighter Troop's mortar platoon at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin. Joined the 75 th
Ranger Regiment (Airborne) in 2007, deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009. Conversant in Russian.

File Name: Ritchie, Michael P.

DOB: 1983-07-23 POB: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Call-Sign: Red Spot Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Combat Observer/Joint Fires Observer (Combat Observation & Lasing Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Technical Studies, Electronic/Instrumentation Technologies specialization (Excelsior College-Fort Bragg)

Relevant Training (partial list): Fire Control Repairer AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Fire Support Specialist AIT, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical
Data System (AFATDS) Transition Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Joint Fires Observer Course, Ranger
School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Rappel Master
Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 2002, began his military career as a fire control repairer with the 82 nd Sustainment Brigade's 659th Maintenance
Company, where he demonstrated a knack for repairing and calibrating laser rangefinders, target designators, and other associated fire control equipment. Re-
classed as a fire support specialist and assigned to the 173 rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team as a forward observer in 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007.
An exceptionally quick study, absorbs information in the classroom and on the field like a sponge takes up water.
File Name: Rossi , Thomas (III) R.
DOB: 1974-12-23 POB: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Dee-Jay Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Transmission Operations Supervisor (Communications Station 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 268th Network Support Company (Signals), 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Fine Arts, Music Arts concentration (Quincy College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Radio Operator-Maintainer AIT, Enhanced Position Location
Reporting System (EPRLS) Net Control Station Operator Course, Network Management (ENM) NCS-A Enhanced Operator Course, White House
Communications Agency Console Control Operations Course, SERE Level-C Training, Department of Defense Information Assurance Awareness Course,
Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: A popular Boston-area deep house and liquid funk music DJ the during the late 1990s. By mid-2001, found himself tired of the constant
grind of professional DJing and disillusioned by the depthless frivolity of the New England nightclub scene, a feeling further reinforced by the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks. Joined the Army in 2002. Initially trained as an infantryman, assigned to the 3 rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment (Air Assault). Fought
against Iraqi Special Republican Guard forces in Baghdad during the opening stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Returned to Iraq in 2005 for a year
long deployment, participating in full-spectrum missions from Forward Operating Base Falcon and later, Forward Operating Base Brassfield-Mora. Re-trained
as a radio operator-maintainer in 2006, assigned to the 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade's 268th Network Support Company (Signals) in 2007.

File Name: Sanders, Bradley J.

DOB: 1975-01-11 POB: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Call-Sign: Big Lob Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Supply Operations Supervisor (Detachment Command Team, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Group Support Company, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Business Administration, Management and Organization concentration (University of Southern California)

Relevant Training (partial list): Unit Supply Specialist AIT, Standard Property Book System (SPBS) Course, Standard Property Book System-Redesign (SPBS-R)
Course, Basic Airborne School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Air Assault School, Special Forces Basic Combat Course-Support, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Operational Contract Support
Course, Installation Logistics Management Course, Defense Distribution Management Course, SERE Level-C Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: At 6'8” (203.2 cm), is easily the tallest member of the GIJOE team. A highly recruited basketball prospect coming out of high school, entered
USC on an basketball scholarship. Played the small forward position, led the school's basketball squad in scoring and assists during his junior year, a year that saw
him take the Trojans to their first NCAA tournament appearance in five years. Bypassed the 1997 NBA draft in the hopes of mounting another NCAA tournament
campaign. Tore his right anterior cruciate ligament at the beginning of his senior year and sat out the rest of the season after undergoing surgery. Went undrafted in
the 1998 NBA draft (obtained copies of scouting reports cite concerns by NBA general managers over potential lingering effects of his knee injury despite extensive
physical rehabilitation). Signed by the Vancouver Grizzlies to a series of 10-day contracts halfway through the lockout-shortened 1998-1999 NBA season. Went to Italy
in 1999 to play for Kinder Bologna. Started for a team that won the Italian Basketball Cup and the Euroleague championship in 2001. A growing concern with the
turmoil both abroad and in the US led him to enlist in the Army in 2002. Assigned to the 507 th Maintenance Company after graduating from unit supply specialist AIT,
took part in the Battle of Nasiriyah in Iraq in 2003. Joined the 3rd Special Forces Group's Group Support Company in 2005. Assigned to the Task Force 31 Forward
Logistics Element in 2006, taking part in combat logistics operations in support of Operation Medusa in Afghanistan. Worked alongside Canadian Forces combat
logistics elements in the Panjwaye and Zhari districts of Kandahar province during Operation Falcon Summit later that same year. Conversant in Italian and Spanish.
Runs a free annual summer basketball camp in his hometown of Chicago for the children of deceased and permanently disabled veterans.
File Name: Schnurr, Kurt
DOB: 1979-04-01 POB: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Call-Sign: Airtight Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: CBRN Reconnaissance Scout (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Chemistry (Pikes Peak Community College), BS in General Studies, Mathematics focus (University of Maryland University College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Ammunition Specialist AIT, Defense Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, CBRN
Specialist AIT, Technical Escort Course, NBC Reconnaissance Course, Biological Integrated Detection Systems Course, Field Identification of Biological Warfare
Agents Course, Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System Course, Master Fox Scout Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Pandemics and Bioterrorism Short Course (MIT Professional Institute), Combat Lifesaver Course, Field Management of Chemical & Biological
Casualties Course, Ranger School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 2001, initially trained as an ammunition specialist, assigned to the 68 th Corps Support Battalion's 60th Ordnance
Company (Ammunition). Deployed to Kuwait in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Deployed to the notorious “Sunni
Triangle” in 2004 to support MNF-I operations in Baghdad governorate. Helped train local forces in basic security, patrolling, and logistics tasks. Re-classed as a
CBRN specialist in 2006. Joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Special Troops Battalion, assigned to the headquarters and headquarters company's
CBRN reconnaissance platoon. Fought Taliban-led insurgents and performed CBRN reconnaissance activities in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains during
Operation Rock Avalanche (2007). An avid toy collector since childhood. Spends much of his free time practicing his amateur prop-based stand-up comedy act in
front (and much to the chagrin) of obliging teammates.

File Name: Scott, Brent

DOB: 1982-02-10 POB: Sioux City, Iowa, USA
Call-Sign: Hit 'n' Run Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment (Light) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Historical Studies, Military History concentration (Empire State College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, ISAF SOF Operations
Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction
Master Course, Light Leaders Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Instructor Course, Ranger School, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, SERE
Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Orphaned at the age of three by a drunk driver. Grew up in a county institution from which he escaped with alarming regularity. Went from
the custody of the county directly into the Army, enlisting at the age of 18 in 2000. Assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Deployed to
Afghanistan in 2003, participating in full-spectrum operations alongside conventional ISAF forces out of Bagram Air Base. Re-assigned to 2nd Battalion, 22nd
Infantry Regiment (Light) in early 2005. Stationed in Baghdad governorate from August 2005 through the summer of 2006. Participated in numerous air assault
operations, weapons cache search missions, Iraqi Security Forces training exercises, and humanitarian relief operations. Returned to Iraq for a second tour in
2007. Managed to convert his military experience into significant college credit via the Army/American Council on Education Registry Transcript System, enabling
him to earn his bachelor's degree in historical studies in 2009 primarily through part-time classroom instruction and distance learning initiatives. Well-read and
articulate, circumspect in his day-to-day dealings.
File Name: Scott, Eric U.
DOB: 1981-02-13 POB: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Call-Sign: Wild Card Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Driver (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 627th Transportation Detachment, 39th Transportation Battalion (Movement Control), 16th Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business and Management (University of Maryland College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Chaplain Assistant AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Emergency Medical Ministry Course, Chapel Tithe and Offering
Clerk Course, Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Freight Traffic Course, Installation Traffic Management Course, Passenger Travel Specialist Course, Camp
Adder Combat Logistical Patrol (CLP) Academy Training, Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3) Training; Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade-
and-Below (FBCB2) Software Familiarization Training; Air Assault School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, Anti-terrorism Evasive Driving-Staff Driver
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Began his military career in 2003 as a chaplain assistant assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment. Deployed to Afghanistan in
2004. Re-classed as a motor transport operator in 2007, assigned to the 39 th Transportation Battalion (Movement Control). Sent to Iraq later that same year as a
member of the 627th Transportation Detachment (Movement Control Team). Plainspoken and always moves with an abrupt sense of purpose, characteristics which
contribute to the mistaken perception that he is socially inept and occasionally blunderous.

File Name: Selkirk, Stuart R.

DOB: 1972-07-24 POB: Big Piney, Wyoming, USA
Call-Sign: Outback Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 5-Mountain, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Company, 5th Ranger Training Battalion, Ranger Training Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management (University of Wyoming), AA in Arabic (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, JOTC Jungle Warfare Course, Ranger Assessment & Selection
Program, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Assault Climber Winter Course,
SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NWTC Cold
Weather Leaders Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, SERE Instructor Qualification Course, Master Resilience Trainer Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Battle
Damage Assessment Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army out of high school in 1990. Assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (Air Assault). Deployed to Panama in
1995 as part of the US government's response to the balseros crisis precipitated by Cuban civil unrest. Separated from the service in 1996. Worked for the
Wyoming Game and Fish Department after receiving his degree in rangeland ecology from the University of Wyoming in 2000. Re-enlisted in 2002, joining the 3 rd
Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne). Participated in numerous clandestine direct action operations targeting Fedayeen Saddam irregulars and scattered
remnants of the Iraqi Special Republican Guard in the Baghdad governorate's notorious “triangle of death” between 2003 and 2006. Conducted armed
reconnaissance missions and fought alongside ISAF SOF forces against Taliban insurgents in southeastern Afghanistan throughout 2007. Re-assigned to the 5th
Ranger Training Battalion, Ranger Training Brigade in 2008. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi) and Spanish, conversant in Czech, German, Persian
(Dari and Farsi dialects), and Slovak. A staunch conservationist, resolutely believes in being a part of his natural environment, not its adversary.
File Name: Seward, Farley S.
DOB: 1977-05-16 POB: Galena, Alaska, USA
Call-Sign: Frostbite Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/OSV Driver (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Troop, 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Process Technology (University of Alaska-Fairbanks/Tanana Valley Campus)

Relevant Training (partial list): Motor Transport Operator AIT, NWTC Arctic Light Individual Course, Military Standard Transportation and Movement
Procedures Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Cavalry Scout AIT, Javelin Gunnery Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School,
Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, NWTC Cold Weather Leaders Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel
Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Ranger School, Bradley Master Gunner Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as an oil and gas inspector for three years, driving up and down the entire 414 mile-length of Alaska's Dalton Highway in
arctic conditions surveying for problems like leaks and pipe shifting on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System before deciding to join the Army in 2001. Started
his military career as a motor transport operator assigned to the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade stationed at Fort Richardson. Re-classed as a cavalry
scout in late 2005 and joined 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment, setting multiple record times for the 1.5 mile snowshoe march component of
the unit's unique, cold weather-oriented Cavalry Fitness Program. Deployed to Iraq in the fall of 2006 for a 15 month-long tour. Participated in independent
reconnaissance and security missions in support of 25 th Infantry Division operations in Babil, Karbala, and Najaf governorates. Fought alongside
reorganized Iraqi Army elements against insurgents in Arab Jabour during Operation Marne Torch (2007). Composed and calm in even the most dire of
situations, traits he had to develop as a matter of course while living and working in the harsh Alaskan wilderness.

File Name: Shannon, Carl G.

DOB: 1980-10-20 POB: Blackduck, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Charbroil Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Medium Fuel Tanker Operator (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 364th Quartermaster Company, 264th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 82nd Sustainment Brigade (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business Administration (Campbell University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Petroleum Supply Specialist AIT, Petroleum Vehicle Operator Course, Basic Airborne School, Defense Hazardous
Materials/Waste Handling Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Camp Adder Combat Logistical Patrol (CLP) Academy Training, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked for several years in the steel mills along Minnesota's Lake Superior coast after graduating from high school. Enlisted in
the Army in 2004. Assigned to the 82nd Sustainment Brigade after completing petroleum supply specialist AIT. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2005, where
he participated in operations supporting conventional and special operations-capable ISAF units. Deployed to Iraq in support of 82 nd Airborne Division
infantry elements, 2006–2007. Helped train Iraqi Army personnel in installation security and combat logistics operations throughout his tour in Iraq.
File Name: Sikorski, Victor W.
DOB: 1979-06-29 POB: Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
Call-Sign: Lift-Ticket Pay Grade: W–2
Duty Assignment: Aeroscout Helicopter Pilot (Composite Aerial Reconnaissance Section, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Applied Technology (Cameron University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Payroll Accounting Clerk Training (Great Plains Technology Center), Warrant Officer Flight Training Program, Advanced Helicopter
Ditching and Dunker Training, OH-58D Pilot Qualification, UH-60A/L/M Pilot Qualification, CH-47D Pilot Qualification, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Survivability Equipment/Electronic Warfare Officer Course, Aviation
Warrant Officer Advanced Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was laboring as a payroll clerk at a retirement home with little chance of progressing into a higher paid position when he got the idea to try
out for the US Army's Flight Warrant Officer Program as a way to introduce some positive economic and social change in his life. Scored a 99 on the AFAST
(Alternate Flight Aptitude Selection Test) much to his (and his friends' and family's) surprise. Assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment in 2004. Took
part in manned aerial reconnaissance operations in direct support of DEA counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean in 2005. Deployed to Iraq in 2006 for a
tour in support of the 82nd Airborne Division. Joined the 6th Cavalry Regiment later that year. Returned to Iraq in 2007 as a member of the 1st Infantry Division
(Mechanized) Combat Aviation Brigade (“Demon Brigade”), flew OH-58D Kiowa Warriors out of Contingency Operating Base Speicher on observation and armed
reconnaissance missions over sections of Salah ad Din governorate. Occasionally brash and brusque in his manners but always well-intentioned. Perceptive and
cagey on and off the field.

File Name: Skoog, Tormod S.

DOB: 1979-12-03 POB: Hibbing, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Tripwire Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Dynamic Building Entry Technician-Explosives (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 744th Ordnance Company, 63rd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Occupational Studies, Construction Technology concentration (Austin Peay Center-Fort Campbell)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Engineer
Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent Course, Sapper Leader Course, EOD Specialist AIT, EOD Advanced Access & Disablement Course, EOD Advanced
Management & Technology Course, Technical Escort Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations
Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Dropped out of Nile C. Kinnick High School in Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan (father is career Navy) during his senior year. Spent two
years training to be a Zen Buddhist monk at the Kenchō-ji temple in Kamakura before deciding to return to the United States. Joined the Army in 2000 after
earning his GED, jokingly claims to have achieved Zen insight while undergoing M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel mine familiarization during basic training.
Assigned to the 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) after graduating from combat engineering AIT. Deployed to northern Iraq in 2003, participated
in engineering support operations backing up elements of the 101st Airborne Division. Re-trained as an EOD specialist in 2006, joined the 63rd Ordnance
Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD). Sent to Afghanistan in 2007 as a member of a small EOD detachment supporting ISAF operations in Kandahar
province. Executed VIP protection duties while attached to an interagency protective services unit accompanying then-presidential candidate Barack
Obama on his July 2008 campaign tour of American military installations in Southwest Asia and Western Europe. Fluent in Japanese.
File Name: Sneeden, Wayne R.
DOB: 1976-04-15 POB: Auburn, Alabama, USA
Call-Sign: Beachhead Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: LRRS Team Leader (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BBA in Management (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Small Arms/Artillery Repairer AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, JWTC Jungle Skills Course, JWTC Jungle
Endurance Course, Infantryman AIT, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Basic Instructor Course, Small Group Instructor Training
Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Combat Diver Qualification Course, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course,
Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation
Operations Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, Battle Damage Assessment Course, Collateral Damage Estimation Course, Master Resilience Trainer
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Army in 1995, initially trained as a small arms/artillery repairer. Served with the 10 th Support Group in Torii Station,
Okinawa prefecture, Japan, from 1996 to 2000. Re-trained as an infantryman in 2001, joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment later that same year. Participated in
a number of airborne assaults in Baghdad governorate in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 and again in 2007,
taking part in CJSOTF-A operations targeting Taliban assets in the country's southeastern provinces. Conversant in Arabic (Iraqi), Persian (Dari and Farsi
dialects) and Spanish. An avid recreational bowhunter. Meticulous, patient, and strong-willed. Level-headed and unperturbable, believes anger to be
counterproductive, a waste of time and energy antithetical to efficiency, sound judgment, and logic.

File Name: Steel, James

DOB: 1977-09-06 POB: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Call-Sign: Wind Chill Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 6-Cold Weather, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment (Stryker) US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Leisure Studies (University of Iowa)

Relevant Training (partial list): Entrepreneurial Management Certificate (University of Iowa), Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School,
Squad Designated Marksman Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, NWTC Arctic Light Individual
Course, Stryker Transition Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, NWTC Cold Weather Leaders Course, Ranger
School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation
Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Iowa Army National Guard while still studying at the University of Iowa. Trained “one weekend a month, two weeks a year”
with the 1-168 Infantry's C Company while working as a sporting goods store manager in Iowa City. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2004, helped provide
security for military convoys and Provincial Reconstruction Team sites while also engaging Taliban-backed insurgents in combat operations. Granted a
conditional release from the Iowa Army National Guard in late 2006 so that he could join the Regular Army. Joined the 25 th Infantry Division's 1st Stryker
Brigade Combat Team (“Arctic Wolves”) in 2007, assigned to the 5th Infantry Regiment's 1st Battalion stationed in Fort Wainwright, Alaska. An avid
outdoorsman and hunter, especially proficient in winter navigation and fieldcraft.
File Name: Steen, Edwin C.
DOB: 1972-04-26 POB: Seattle, Washington, USA
Call-Sign: Lifeline Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Treatment Team Chief (Medical Treatment Team, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Public Management, minor in Health (Austin Peay Center-Fort Campbell)

Relevant Training (partial list): EMT-Basic Program (North Seattle Community College), Intravenous Therapy Technician Training (Harborview Medical Center-
University of Washington), Airway Management Technician Training (Harborview Medical Center-University of Washington), Intermediate Life Support
Technician Training (Harborview Medical Center-University of Washington), EMT-Paramedic Program (Harborview Medical Center-University of Washington),
Health Care Specialist AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Flight Medic Course, Rappel Master Course, Field Management of Chemical & Biological
Casualties Course, Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment Enlisted Qualification Course, Special Operations
Combat Medic Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic
Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Battle Staff NCO Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was a paramedic with the Seattle Fire Department for three years before enlisting in the Army in 1996. Assigned combat medic duties
with the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment (Light) after graduating from health care specialist AIT. Supported 10 th Mountain Division elements and
participated in humanitarian medical, surgical, and search and rescue activities in Bosnia in 1998 as part of the NATO Stabilization Force. Joined the 160 th
Special Operations Aviation Regiment (“Night Stalkers”) in 2001 as a flight medic. Sent to the Philippines in 2002 as part of a 160 th SOAR contingent
supporting JSOTF-P operations in the island of Mindanao. Deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008, taking part in numerous high-risk CASEVAC and CSAR
operations in the country's western desert bordering Syria. A yūdansha (ranked black belt) in Kokikai aikido and an amateur triathlete. Well-read and
thoughtful, maintains a sincere and profound respect for the views of others. Has been romantically linked to Van Mark Consolidated Industries heiress Britney
“Bree” Van Mark, whom he first met during a stop in Dubai while on his initial deployment to Southwest Asia.

File Name: Steinberg, Lance J.

DOB: 1974-10-17 POB: Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
Call-Sign: Clutch Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/NSTV Driver (LRRS Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit Prior to GIJOE Selection: C Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment (Light) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Automotive Technology (Brookdale Community College)

Relevant Training (Partial List): Motor Transport Operator AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Passenger Travel Specialist Course, Anti-terrorism Evasive
Driving-Staff Driver Course, Military Standard Transportation and Movement Procedures Course, Installation Traffic Management Course, Integrated Computerized
Deployment System Course, Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Course, MWTC OSV/Rough Terrain Driver Training, Light Leaders Course, Ranger School,
Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, GIJOE
Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as an automobile mechanic and professional auto racer prior to enlistment. Placed 6 th at the 1999 Baja 1000 Race, driving an
extensively customized Trophy Truck. Enlisted in the Army in 2000. Served as a driver with the 264 th Corps Support Battalion before re-classing as an infantryman in
2004. Deployed to Iraq with elements of the 10th Mountain Division's 31st Infantry Regiment later that year, taking part in combat operations in and around Baghdad
governorate. Returned to Iraq for a 15 month deployment in the summer of 2006, took part in extensive counterinsurgency operations with the goal of establishing a
permanent MNF-I presence in the Baghdad governorate's “Sunni Triangle.” Has a reputation as being somewhat crude and his attitudes towards women, particularly
those in the armed services, can be considered archaic at best. Nevertheless, he is considered by most GIJOE teammates to be the organization's best road and
rough terrain tactical vehicle operator. Possesses an unerring, almost preternatural sense for defensive and evasive driving.
File Name: Stone, Winfield A.
DOB: 1973-08-30 POB: Kinsley, Kansas, USA
Call-Sign: Cutter Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Command Logistics Officer (Office of the Director, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Command Staff, Tactical Law Enforcement Team South, Deployable Operations Group (USCG)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Management (United States Coast Guard Academy), Master of Systems Analysis (Naval Postgraduate School)

Relevant Training (partial list): Port Security Unit Basic Skills Course, Crew-Served Weapon (MK-19 40mm Machine Gun) Course, Tactical Coxswain Course, Basic
Tactical Operations Course, Non-Compliant Vessel Pursuit Course, Advanced Tactical Operations Course, Boarding Officer Course; Ports, Waterways, and Coastal
Security Course; FLETC Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Program Law Enforcement Supervisor Leadership Training Program Law Enforcement Manager
Training Program, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, SERE Level-C Training; Streamlining Government Through Outsourcing, Privatization and Public-Private
Partnerships Course; Defense Resources Management Course, Multi-Criteria Decision Making Course, Special Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course,
GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Named by his father after Kinsley native Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., a pioneer naval aviator and the first commanding officer of Naval Air Station
San Diego. Insisted on going by the nickname “Skip” throughout high school in an effort to distance himself from the late Spencer (the US Navy commander was just
as known for stories of his raging alcoholism and spousal abuse as he was for his military accomplishments). Petitioned his district's congressman for two years to get
an appointment to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis to no avail. Entered the US Coast Guard Academy instead. Excelled academically and in varsity athletics, was
captain of the men's swimming team his senior year. Assigned to USCG Activities Europe after graduating from the Academy in 1998. Deployed to Kuwait in 2004,
participated in port security and maritime interdiction operations in the northern Persian Gulf in support of American military operations in Iraq through early 2006.
Returned to the United States in 2007 and took up a non-teaching administrative post at the USCG Academy, briefly served as coach for the academy's women's
swimming team before joining the USCG Deployable Operations Group. Took part in extensive interagency security exercises in the Gulf of Mexico in 2008. Fluent in
Spanish, conversant in Arabic (Iraqi). Iron-willed and unremitting, always finds a way to get the job done while managing to maintain a somewhat bizarre sense of
humor. An avid Boston Red Sox (professional baseball team) fan since his days as a midshipman in Connecticut.

File Name: Stratton, Felix P.

DOB: 1975-06-25 POB: Spencer, West Virginia, USA
Call-Sign: Mercer Pay Grade: GS–10
Duty Assignment: Special Projects Team Leader (Special Projects Team, SONIC Detachment)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Veteran Infantry Personnel (VIPER) Division, Controller-Observer Regional Assistance (COBRA) Command, Inc.
Post-Secondary Education: BA in History (Columbia College-Fort Drum)

Relevant Training (partial list): Small Arms/Artillery Repairer AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course,
Infantryman AIT, Pathfinder School, ISTC Patrol Course, Ranger School, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master
Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Veteran Infantry Personnel (VIPER) Squadron Indoctrination (COBRA Command,
Inc.), GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Bussed tables throughout high school to supplement his mother's meager earnings as a hairdresser. Joined the Army in 1994, began
his military career as an armorer with the 548th Corps Support Battalion. Re-classed as an infantryman in 1998, assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 32nd Infantry
Regiment (Light). Served a tour in the Sinai peninsula with the USBATT MFO Contingent, 1999. Deployed to Bosnia in 2001 as part of Task Force Falcon.
Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003). Separated from the service in 2005. Took a high-paying position with controversial private military
contracting firm Controller-Observer Regional Assistance (COBRA) Command, Inc. later that same year to help pay for his mother's cancer treatments.
Was part of a COBRA Command VIPER unit implicated in a number of international law violations in Colombia while providing security for Drug
Enforcement Agency personnel in 2007 and 2008, although he was not named in a lawsuit subsequently filed by Colombian citizens against COBRA
Command under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act. Left COBRA Command in early 2009, sought out for recruitment by GIJOE's
administrative affairs team based on the strength of the endorsement provided by GIJOE operative Matthew Burns (call-sign: Sgt. Slaughter), whom he had
served with briefly in Iraq. Conversant in Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. A hard-bitten warrior who has seen first-hand some of the worst things man has
inflicted upon his fellow man in the name of nationalist fervor, retribution, notions of racial superiority, religious fanaticism, and the indiscriminate pursuit of
material wealth. Jaded and cynical, but refuses to let the grind of professional soldiering wear away at his innate sense of honor and justice.
File Name: Suarez, Guillermo
DOB: 1977-01-12 POB: Havana, Cuba
Call-Sign: Snow Storm Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: CBRN NCO (Service Support Platoon Headquarters, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: 103rd WMD Civil Support Team (USARNG)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Aviation Maintenance Technology (University of Alaska-Anchorage)

Relevant Training (partial list): Aircraft Armament/Electronic/Avionic Systems Repairer AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, CBRN Specialist AIT,
Technical Escort Course, NBC Reconnaissance Course, Biological Integrated Detection Systems Course, Field Identification of Biological Warfare Agents Course,
Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Field Management of Chemical & Biological Casualties Course,
Ranger School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Father a poet, mother a midwife; both parents subjected to persistent harassment and intimidation by Cuban Communist Party cells for their
public criticism of Cuban President Fidel Castro's economic policies. Family fled Cuba and moved to the United States when Guillermo was just three years old,
departing Cuba in a rust-eaten, jury-rigged watercraft overloaded with refugees during the mass defection known as the Mariel Boatlift, arriving in Key West,
Florida in May of 1980. Parents encountered difficulty establishing themselves economically and socially in Miami, where many locals viewed the Marielitos with a
combination of fear, disgust, and anger. After much deliberation, father decided to move the family to Alaska in 1986 to put as much distance between them and
the post-exodus negativity. Entire family became naturalized American citizens in 1987. Joined the Alaska Army National Guard after receiving his associate's
degree in aviation maintenance in 2000, assigned to the 207 th Aviation Regiment after completing aircraft powerplant repairer AIT. Accompanied Company E, 207 th
Aviation Regiment on deployments to Kuwait and Iraq, 2003–2005. Re-trained as a CBRN specialist in 2006. Attached to USNORTHCOM's Joint Task Force
Alaska later that year. Assigned to the Fort Richardson-based 103rd WMD Civil Support Team in 2008. Fluent in Spanish.

File Name: Swilley, Earl R.

DOB: 1974-12-16 POB: Raeford, North Carolina, USA
Call-Sign: Mercer Pay Grade: GS–10
Duty Assignment: Criminal Anti-Terrorism Investigator (SSE Section, SONIC Detachment)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Criminal Investigation Division, Internal Revenue Service
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Accountancy (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

Relevant Training (partial list): Criminal Investigator Training Program, IRS Criminal Investigation Training, Survival Shooting Training Program, Law Enforcement
Rifle Training Program, Financial Forensic Techniques Training Program, International Banking and Money Laundering Training Program, Money Laundering and
Asset Forfeiture Training Program, Procurement Fraud Investigation Training Program, Vehicle Ambush Countermeasures Training Program, Advanced Asset
Forfeiture Training Program, IPTM Interviews and Interrogations Course, Black Market Peso Exchange Training Program, Product Substitution Investigations
Training Program, Fundamentals of Terrorism Training Program, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, SERE Level-C Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked for several years as an IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent prior to joining GIJOE. Contributions to a number of related “white-
collar crime” investigations between 1999 and 2003 helped indict and eventually convict high-ranking officials of the Bayou Hedge Fund Group on charges of
fraud. Has also participated in a number of inter-agency investigative and enforcement efforts combating Colombia-based drug cartels, North America-based
financial backers of international acts of terrorism, and Eastern European organized crime organizations involved in human trafficking operations and white slavery
rings in the US. Functions in an unofficial capacity as the SONIC Detachment's subject matter expert in financial forensics. Relentless in his pursuit of the criminal
element wherever it can be found, makes it his personal mission to bring offenders to justice.
File Name: Tadur, Ronald W.
DOB: 1976-08-11 POB: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Call-Sign: Dusty Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Visual Tracker (HVT Tracker Team 1, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Provisional) (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion (Assault), 10th Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Air Conditioning Technology (Community College of Southern Nevada), BS in Environmental and Resource Science (Nevada State College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Utilities Equipment Repairer AIT, Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault School, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Assault Climber Summer Course, Basic Airborne School, Pathfinder School, Combat
Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Operations Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked as an HVAC repairman while studying at Nevada State College. Joined the Army in 2001 after receiving his bachelor's degree in
environmental and resource science, looking to leave behind the gaudy environs and indulgent confines of Las Vegas. Stationed at Camp As Sayliyah near Doha,
Qatar as a utilities equipment repairer assigned to Combat Equipment Battalion-Qatar from 2002 to 2004. Briefly attached to the 245 th Arid Environment
Detachment as a subject matter expert in the maintenance of utilities equipment in desert conditions. Re-trained as an infantryman and assigned to the 2 nd
Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment (Light) in 2005. Conducted combat and nation-building operations in 2006 in Kabul and other provinces in southern Afghanistan as
a member of Task Force Warrior, a light infantry unit assigned to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Moved to eastern Afghanistan later that same
year to support operations being conducted by the 10th Mountain Division as part of Combined/Joint Task Force 76. Transferred to the 10 th Mountain Division's
provisional Pathfinder Company in 2007. Participated in armed reconnaissance and counter-smuggling operations near Iraq's border with Iran as part of the
multinational Task Force Minuteman in 2008. Fluent in Spanish; conversant in Arabic (Gulf Arabic and Iraqi), Hebrew, Persian (Dari and Farsi dialects), Hindi-Urdu
(Modern Standard Urdu dialect), and Swahili. Has a healthy respect for the perils associated with and a genuine appreciation for the simple pleasures of austere
desert living. A student and practitioner of proven arid environment navigation and survival techniques developed by the indigenous populations of the Arabian,
Gobi, Mojave, Sahara, and Syrian deserts.

File Name: Tall Elk, James

DOB: 1975-05-23 POB: White Earth, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Dart Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion (Assault), 101st Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Geosciences, Geoarchaelogy emphasis (Minnesota State University-Moorhead)

Relevant Training (partial list): Topographic Surveyor AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Pathfinder School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Infantryman AIT, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Battle Damage Assessment Course, ISAF SOF
Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Worked for the White Earth Land Recovery Project before joining the Army in 2001. Initially trained as a topographic surveyor. Served with
the 30th Engineer Battalion (Topographic) (Airborne) in Iraq in 2004. Re-classed as an infantryman in late 2005, assigned to the 101 st Aviation Regiment's
pathfinder company. Took part in the Operation Swarmer (2006), a joint Iraqi-US air assault operation against a suspected insurgent stronghold in Salah ad Din
governorate. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 for a 12 month-long deployment, conducting airmobile counterinsurgency operations alongside conventional and
special operations-capable ISAF units near the country's border with Pakistan. Possesses an unerring sense of direction and geographical orientation honed
through years of navigating the wilds of northwestern Minnesota. Fluent in Southwestern Ojibwe/Chippewa; conversant in French and Severn Ojibwe/Oji-Cree.
File Name: Talltree, Franklin M.
DOB: 1978-02-18 POB: Ganado, Arizona, USA
Call-Sign: Airborne Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 7-HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: F Company (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Political Science (University of Arizona-Tempe)

Relevant Training (partial list): UH-60 Helicopter Repairer AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, UH-60M Transition Course, UH-60 Non-rated
Crewmember Instructor Course, Infantryman AIT, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, Pathfinder School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Military Free Fall
Parachutist Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism
Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical
Exploitation Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Parents are oil-rich Navajos who indulged their eldest son with skydiving lessons as a teenager. Graduated with a political science degree in
2001. Surprised his parents and professors when he opted to join the Army instead of going on to law school. Initially trained as a UH-60 helicopter repairer,
assigned to B Company, 2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment. Deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July of 2002,
providing combat support to coalition forces and directly engaging Taliban forces as a Blackhawk helicopter door gunner. Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom
(2003). Took part in manned aerial reconnaissance and air movement operations in direct support of DEA operations in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos
Islands in 2005, re-trained as an infantryman later that same year. Re-assigned to F Company (Pathfinder), 2nd Battalion (Assault), 82nd Aviation Regiment in 2006.
Returned to Iraq in late 2006 on a six-month tour. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 as part of the ISAF. Fluent in Navajo and Spanish, conversant in Arabic
(Modern Standard and Iraqi). Extremely adept at eliciting information from captured and uncooperative hostiles, a skill he developed while practicing cross-
examination techniques as a member of the Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity at Arizona State. Occasionally gives “cold reading” exhibitions for the amusement of
friends and teammates.

File Name: Taputapu, David

DOB: 1975-08-01 POB: Pago Pago, American Samoa (unincorporated territory of the USA)
Call-Sign: Red Dog Pay Grade: GS–08
Duty Assignment: Special Projects Technician (Special Projects Team, SONIC Detachment)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Freelance stuntman, stunt coordinator, and motion capture model affiliated with the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Sport and Leisure Studies, Physical Education Teacher Education track (Ohio State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope & Special
Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, International Stuntman School-Standard Session (United Stuntmen's Association),
International Stuntman School-Aerial Intensive Session (United Stuntmen's Association), ISAF SOF Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification
Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Powerfully built even as a youth, exceptionally quick and agile despite his prodigious size. Attended Ohio State University on a football
scholarship. Played offensive tackle for the Buckeyes, helped the Big Ten Conference football team to multiple bowl wins during the 1990s. Taken in the 5 th
round of the 1998 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. Played two seasons with the team, the highlights of his otherwise nondescript professional football
career taking the form of spectacularly brutal tackles that occasionally led to fines and suspensions for unnecessary roughness. Left the NFL in 2000 to join the
Army later that year. Served as an airborne infantryman with the 2-504 Infantry, participated in combat operations against Taliban-backed insurgents during two
deployments to Afghanistan, the first in 2003, the second in 2005. Separated from the service in 2006. Moved to Los Angeles, worked as a stuntman and
motion capture model for a number of TV shows and video games before being accepted into GIJOE. Fluent in Samoan, conversant in Tongan. An avid martial
arts practitioner, schooled in collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestling, Kodokan judo, Limalama (“Hand of Wisdom”), and muay thai.
File Name: Therien, Jeffrey R.
DOB: 1969-03-22 POB: Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA
Call-Sign: Repeater Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer/Cover Man (LRRS Team 4, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Elementary Education (Rhode Island College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault School, JOTC Jungle Warfare Course, Basic Airborne
School, Pathfinder School, Ranger School, Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Assault Climber Summer Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, ISAF SOF
Operations Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Joined the Army in 1986 as a fresh-faced high school graduate. Trained as an infantryman, assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 27th Infantry
Regiment (Light). Saw his first combat action during Operation Golden Pheasant (1988), fighting Nicaraguan Sandinista forces that had strayed over the border
into the Honduras during their military campaign against the Resistencia Nicaragüense. Deployed to Panama in 1989 as part of Operation Just Cause (1989).
Separated from the service in 1990. Attended Rhode Island College on the GI Bill, graduated with a degree in elementary education in 1994. Taught third grade
classes at the Garvin Memorial School in his hometown of Cumberland, Rhode Island from 1996 to 2002. Married the school nurse in 1999, couple have a
daughter born in 2001. Re-enlisted in the Army in late 2003 after education budget cuts and school district re-structuring rendered his position redundant, barely
making it under the maximum enlistment age (with allowance for previous time in-service). Joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment in 2005. Participated in CJSOTF-A
operations in northeastern Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. Conversant in Spanish. One of the older enlisted individual augmentees on the GIJOE team, although
this fact is not readily apparent due to his excellent physical conditioning. A steady, efficient, no-nonsense professional in the field, highly regarded by teammates
for his genuinely amiable and caring nature off it.

File Name: Thomas, David O.

DOB: 1979-11-24 POB: Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA
Call-Sign: Crazylegs Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 7-HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: A Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Music (Iowa Central Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Parachute Rigger AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Special Forces Basic Combat Course-Support, Infantryman AIT,
Ranger Assessment & Selection Program, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, ISAF SOF Operations
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: A talented organist and pianist, played for the Iowa Central Concert Band and Iowa Central Jazz Band in college. Enlisted in the Army in
2001, passing up a career in music for “the chance to jump out of perfectly good airplanes.” Initially trained as a parachute rigger, assigned to the 612 th
Quartermaster Company. Eminently skilled in the assembly and maintenance of cargo and personnel parachutes and the rigging of equipment and supply
containers for airdrop. Attached to the Task Force 31 FLE (Forward Logistics Element) in 2006, taking part in combat logistics operations in support of Operation
Medusa in Afghanistan. Re-classed as an infantryman later that year and joined the 75 th Ranger Regiment. Fought Taliban forces numerous times alongside
CJSOTF-A and Afghan National Army elements near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan in 2008. An active member of the Fort Bragg-based Red Hat Chapter,
Association of the Quartermasters.
File Name: Vennemeyer, David
DOB: 1978-07-27 POB: Victoria, Texas, USA
Call-Sign: Barrage Pay Grade: O–3
Duty Assignment: Fire Support Coordinator (Operations Section, C2E)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: C Battery, 1st Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Geography (University of Minnesota); Master of Business Administration (Campbell University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Army ROTC Basic Course, Army ROTC Leaders Training Course, Army ROTC Advanced Course, Army ROTC Leader Development &
Assessment Course, Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, Basic Airborne School, Air Assault School, Combat Lifesaver Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer
Course, Tactical Intelligence Familiarization Course, Ranger School, Joint Fires Observer Course, Tactical Information Operations Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol
Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, Field Artillery Captains Career Course, Joint Operational Fires & Effects Course, SERE Level-C Training,
Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, Modern Army Combatives Level 1 Instructor Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Attended the University of Minnesota on a wrestling scholarship. Led the Golden Gophers wrestling team to back-to-back NCAA Division I Wrestling
Team Championships in 2000 and 2001. Graduated from field artillery officer basic training in early 2002, found himself in Afghanistan with the 319th Field Artillery
Regiment (Airborne) providing supporting fires for the 82nd Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team later that same year. Sent to Iraq on a 15 month deployment in
2006, operating mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan in the north, participating in professionalization training exercises with Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) law
enforcement and military forces and leading security missions in support of the South Korean Army's Zaytun Division. Observant and thoughtful on and off the field. An
imposing physical specimen at 6'6” (198.1 cm) and 210 lbs. (95.2 kg) with 7% body fat percentage. Conversant in Arabic (Iraqi) and Kurdish.

File Name: Verdi, Alessandro D.

DOB: 1977-09-12 POB: Carcare, Savona, Italy
Call-Sign: Sparks Pay Grade: GS–14
Duty Assignment: Command Administration Officer (Office of the Director, C2E)
Employer prior to GIJOE selection: Technical Programs Unit; Programs, Policy, and Budget Directorate; Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (US Department of State)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Management Science, minor in Political Science (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MS in Program Management (The George Washington
University), AA in Farsi (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center)

Relevant Training (partial list): Foreign Service Institute Transition Center Security Overseas Seminar, Information Security Orientation, OPSEC Fundamentals
Course, Foreign Service Institute Transition Center Advanced Security Overseas Seminar, Department of Defense Information Assurance Awareness Course, Insider
Threat Course, Defense Resources Management Course; Budget Preparation, Execution and Accountability Course; Multi-Criteria Decision Making Course, George P.
Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center Arabic Language Course, George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center Hebrew Language Course, Special
Operations Forces Interagency Collaboration Course, Combating Terrorist Networks Seminar, Graduate Certificate in International Security Policy (The George
Washington University), GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: The eldest son of a senior American diplomat to Italy. Spent the bulk of his pre-teen and teen years immersed in the cultural heterogeneity of the
diplomatic community, picking up perspectives and languages from friends and classmates from disparate regions of the world. Family returned to the United States
when he was seventeen years old. Entered MIT on an academic scholarship, would enroll in a number of courses taught by future GIJOE Director Joseph Colton (call-
sign: Eagle-Eye). Worked as a freelance interpreter/translator after graduating from university in 2001, taking various assignments from the State Department's Office
of Language Services, including a contract to serve as a seminar interpreter for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Antiterrorism Assistance Program. Employed as a
liaison officer and translator for a contingency Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) assigned to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games held in Turin, Italy. Helped
coordinate diplomatic, military, and law enforcement efforts to ensure the successful release of abducted American nationals in Ecuador and Nigeria in 2007. Joined
the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism as a full-time employee later that year. Fluent in French (Metropolitan/Standard), Italian, Persian
(Dari and Farsi dialects), and Spanish; conversant in Arabic (Gulf Arabic and Modern Standard), Hebrew, Portuguese, and Romanian.
File Name: Weems, Wallace A.
DOB: 1979-04-09 POB: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Call-Sign: Ripcord Pay Grade: E–6
Duty Assignment: Scout-Observer (LRRS Team 7-HALO/HAHO, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AAS in Construction Management (Columbus State Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Combat Engineer AIT, Basic Airborne School, Javelin Gunnery Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Air Assault
School, Sapper Leader Course, Infantryman AIT, Pathfinder School, Static-Line Jumpmaster Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Ranger School, Fast Rope &
Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual Terrorism Awareness Course, Military Free Fall
Jumpmaster Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Was a cadet with the Civil Air Patrol-Ohio Wing throughout high school. Discovered recreational and competitive skydiving in college. Joined
the military in 2001 in search of more formidable parachuting challenges, but quickly learned that the life of a soldier demands more than just a sense of daring
and adventure, it also requires a mature appreciation of civic duty and the responsibilities that come with representing the country as a professional fighting man in
the world's battlefields. Initially trained as a combat engineer, assigned to the 37th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat). Deployed to
northern Iraq in 2003, participated in engineering operations in support of the 101 st Airborne Division. Re-classed as an infantryman in 2005, transferred to the 1 st
Battalion, 508th Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division “All-American” Free Fall Parachute Demonstration Team in 2006.
Deployed along with other elements of the 82nd Airborne's newly activated 4th Brigade Combat Team to Afghanistan in 2007 in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom. Continued to operate in-country through 2008. Plain-spoken and candid in conversation, which can sometimes be misconstrued for rudeness or naiveté.

File Name: Whitcomb, Averill B.

DOB: 1975-03-26 POB: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Call-Sign: Steam Roller Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Recovery Vehicle Operator (Motor Vehicle Maintenance Section, STEEL Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: D Company (Forward Support), 173rd Support Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Business and Management (University of Maryland University College Europe)

Relevant Training (partial list): Diploma in Diesel Mechanics/Heavy Equipment Maintenance (Hibbing Community College), Track Vehicle Repairer AIT,
Track Vehicle Recovery Specialist Course, Defense Hazardous Materials/Waste Handling Course, Wheel Vehicle Mechanic AIT, Basic Airborne School, Air
Assault School, Automotive Electrical Systems Repair Course, Wheel Vehicle Recovery Specialist Course, Mechanical Maintenance NCO Common Core
Course, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: Employed for eight years as a heavy equipment/diesel engine mechanic for Minnesota's largest Caterpillar/AGCO dealer before he
decided to join the Army in 2002. Assigned to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment after graduating from track vehicle repairer AIT, where he would apply his
mechanical skills and extensive diesel engine experience to the upkeep and maintenance of the regiment's fleet of M3A3 Bradley Cavalry Fighting Vehicles.
Served a tour in Iraq, 2003 to 2004. Re-trained as a wheel vehicle mechanic and transferred to the Italy-stationed 173 rd Support Battalion in 2005. Deployed
to Afghanistan for a year-long deployment in 2006, assigned to a forward support company attached to the 173 rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team's
reconnaissance squadron. Occasionally obstinate and stubborn, always opinionated, but teammates have learned to trust his instincts and experience
when it comes to vehicle recovery and mechanical maintenance matters.
File Name: Wilkinson, Lonzo R.
DOB: 1972-09-20 POB: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Call-Sign: Stalker Pay Grade: E–8 (MSG)
Duty Assignment: HVT Tracker Team Leader (HVT Tracker Team 2, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Regimental Reconnaissance Company, Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AA in Serbo-Croatian (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center), BS in Sociology (Columbus State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, JOTC Jungle Warfare Course, Pathfinder School, Ranger Assessment &
Selection Program, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Basic Military Mountaineer Winter Course, Ranger School, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course,
NATO LRRP School Patrol Course, Fast Rope & Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, Combat Lifesaver Course, Reconnaissance & Surveillance Leaders Course, Combat Diver Qualification Course, Battle Staff NCO
Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, British Army Jungle Tracking Course, ISAF SOF Operations Course, NATO SOF Senior NCO
Operations Course, Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: The youngest in a brood of three, mother a single-parent who worked as a short-order cook. Lost both brothers to gang-related violence.
Affiliated himself with a gang in a misguided attempt to escape a similar fate. Eventually came to the realization that the military offered him the best chance to escape
the grinding poverty and the senseless violence of the inner city. Enlisted in the Army out of high school in 1991. Assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment
(Light) after completing infantryman AIT. Deployed to Somalia for Operation Gothic Serpent (1993). Served consecutive tours (1995, 1996) in the Sinai peninsula as
part of the MFO's USBATT Contingent. Took part in joint security operations in Panama in 1997. Participated in peacekeeping operations in Bosnia in 1998. Joined the
75th Ranger Regiment in 1999. Returned to Bosnia in 2000 as part of Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment Team Two, serving alongside future GIJOE member
Robert Light (call-sign: Snake-Eyes) and future COBRA Command consultant Tomasiburo Arashikage (alias: Storm-Shadow). Would spend the next nine years
participating in various aboveboard and clandestine operations in Southwest Asia and the Horn of Africa. Received training in jungle tracking from the Brigade of
Gurkhas Training Team at the British Army Jungle Warfare Training School in Brunei. Fluent in Arabic (Maghrebi), French (Maghreb dialect), Serbo-Croatian, Spanish,
and Swahili; conversant in Somali (Benaadir dialect). Exceptionally perceptive and intelligent, functions especially well in high stress situations.

File Name: Williams, Ross A.

DOB: 1978-06-08 POB: Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA
Call-Sign: Muskrat Pay Grade: E–5
Duty Assignment: Countertracker/Rear Security Man (HVT Tracker Team 3, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (US Army)
Post-Secondary Education: AS in Criminal Justice (Baton Rouge Community College)

Relevant Training (partial list): Peace Officer Standards & Training Certification (Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement), Corrections Training
(Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement), Peace Officer Standards & Training Firearms Course (Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement),
Backcountry Tactics & Tracking Course, Infantryman AIT, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Basic Military Mountaineer Summer Course, Fast Rope
& Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master Course, Rappel Master Course, ISTC Patrol Course, Ranger School, SERE Level-C Training, Individual
Terrorism Awareness Course, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Fort Huachaca Combat Tracking Course, GIJOE Professional
Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: As a youth, would augment his family's income by selling raccoon, possum, wild boar, and even alligator carcasses from animals that
he personally hunted and trapped in the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana. After graduating from college, worked as a prison guard for five years at the
Louisiana State Penitentiary (a.k.a. Angola Maximum Security Prison), used his extensive knowledge of the local geography and skills in backcountry
tracking time and again to help recapture escaped convicts. Enlisted in the Army in 2004, assigned to the 2 nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne).
Participated in joint exercises with Germany's KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte at the ISTC in Pfullendorf throughout 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007
as part of Task Force Bayonet, taking part in ISAF operations in Nuristan and Laghman provinces through 2008. Fluent in Louisiana Creole, conversant in
French (Cajun dialect) and Spanish.
File Name: Willoughby, Malcolm R.
DOB: 1976-06-03 POB: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Call-Sign: Deep-Six Pay Grade: E–7
Duty Assignment: Explosive Ordnance Clearance Agent/Ordnance Clearance Diver (LRRS Team 8-NSW, TIGER Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Mobile Unit 3, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Group ONE (USN)
Post-Secondary Education: BS in Biology, Marine Biology emphasis (San Diego State University)

Relevant Training (partial list): Aviation Ordnanceman “A” Schoo, Armament Weapons Support Equipment Technician Training, Surface Rescue Swimmer Training, Air
Launched Weapons Technician Training, Armament Weapons Support Equipment (AWSE) Maintenance Manager Training, Basic EOD Diver Training, EOD Diver
Training, EOD Tactical Training, Basic Airborne School, Ordnance Clearance Diver Training, Marine Mammal Systems Operator Training, EOD Advanced Access &
Disablement Course, EOD Advanced Management & Technology Course, Air Assault School, Basic Swimming and Water Survival Instructor Course, Tactical Rope
Suspension Technician Certification and Helicopter Rope Suspension Training Master Course, Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, Master EOD Technician
Screening, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training, NATO SOF Technical Exploitation Operations Course

Miscellaneous Notes: Enlisted in the Navy in 1995. Initially trained as an aviation ordnanceman. Served aboard the USS Thorn (DD-988) destroyer from late 1995 to
2000. Participated in Maritime Combined Operations Training (MARCOT)/Unified Spirit joint training exercises in 1998 and 2000 alongside Canadian, British, and
French naval personnel. Re-trained as an EOD diver in 2001, joined EOD Group ONE's EOD Mobile Unit 3 later that same year. Deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2003,
supported elements of the 5th Fleet by taking out numerous anti-ship mines and underwater booby traps in the Khawr Abd Allah estuary as part of a MK 8 marine
mammal (bottlenose dolphin) mine-hunting team. Sent to Al Anbar governorate in Iraq the following year, conducted counter-IED operations in support of the 2 nd
Marine Expeditionary Force. Worked alongside Latvian and Polish Army elements in Al-Qādisiyyah governorate in 2006 and through 2007, conducted counter-IED
missions and trained local police bomb disposal teams in intermediate and advanced explosive ordnance clearance techniques. Taciturn and somewhat aloof,
generally prefers the solitude of the open sea over the company of his GIJOE teammates whenever possible.

File Name: Zullo, John

DOB: 1969-10-16 POB: Manchester, Vermont, USA
Call-Sign: Claymore Pay Grade: O–4
Duty Assignment: Detachment Commander (Detachment Command Team, SONIC Detachment)
Unit assignment prior to GIJOE selection: Directorate of Intelligence, Special Operations Command-Korea (USFK)
Post-Secondary Education: BA in Asian and Middle East Studies, East Asia concentration (Dartmouth College); MS in Military Arts and Sciences (US Army School of Advanced Military
Studies)

Relevant Training (Partial List): Officer Candidate School, Infantry Officer Basic Course, Air Assault School, Basic Airborne School, Rappel Master Course,
Ranger School, Infantry Mortar Platoon Leaders Course, Sniper Employment Leaders Course, Fast Rope and Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Master
Course, Tactical Intelligence Familiarization Course, Military Intelligence Officer Transition Course, Defense Strategic Debriefing & Interrogation Course,
Defense Against Sound Equipment Course, Military Intelligence Captains Career Course, Advanced Foreign Counterintelligence Course, NATO SOF Intel
Course, Introduction to Networks & Computer Hardware Course, Counterintelligence in Cyber Space Course, NATO SOF Advanced Intel Course, NATO SOF
Technical Exploitation Operations Course, Joint Special Operations Warfighter Certification, Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Intelligence Leaders
Orientation Seminar, Command & General Staff School, GIJOE Professional Qualification Training

Miscellaneous Notes: The scion of a moneyed New England family, had a largely sheltered upbringing surrounded by affluence. Spent his first few years out of
college traveling the world, occasionally writing dispatches for The National Geographic Magazine. Firsthand exposure to the effects of the brutal ethnic
conflicts that characterized the socio-political landscape of countries such as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia throughout the mid-1990s had a profound
effect on his outlook on life. Entered US Army OCS in 1996. Disputes that personal or class guilt prompted the decision, maintains that it was the realization of
a responsibility shared by all the world's citizens to improve worldwide living conditions that served as his primary motivation for joining the military. Initially
trained as an infantry officer, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment (Airborne). Participated in security operations in Southwest Asia and Haiti in
1998. Made the transition to the Military Intelligence Corps in 2000, assigned to the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade in South Korea. Led a contingent of
counterintelligence and interrogation teams from the brigade's 524th Military Intelligence Battalion in Iraq in 2005 and 2006. Transferred to SOCKOR's
Directorate of Intelligence in 2007. Fluent in Arabic (Modern Standard and Iraqi), Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin (Standard dialect).