G.I. Joe Inside the Filecards Featuring ‘SNAKE EYES’
Story by Staff Writer Shaft
Snake-Eyes is listed as a “Commando” and has a PMS of “Infantry” and a SMS of “Hand-to-Hand Combat Instructor”. He would probably have enlisted as an 11B Infantryman and served in regular units and then make the move to a special operations unit (such as the 75th Ranger Regiment). The types of schools Snake-Eyes has attended would attest to this. Most standard infantry soldiers would not be trained in all hostile environments such as desert, mountaineering, jungle and arctic. Maybe one or two but generally not all.
In addition, his “underwater demolitions'” nearly screams Navy SEAL. About the only MOS that would do this sort of work in the US Army would be a 12D Diver. They are non-combatants though and generally do underwater demolitions as part of harbor clearing and such. In keeping with his Army background I would think the closest he could come to this line of work would be if he later went Special Forces as an Engineer Sergeant and assigned to a SCUBA ODA. Most 12-man ODA’s will be trained in one particular type of infiltration method (SCUBA, Military Free Fall, Mobility and Mountain). SCUBA would make the most sense judging by the wording on his filecard. Also the Marvel comics had him serving in MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. So this would also align more with a Special Forces soldier as they served within this unit.
I have not found any sort of SQI to identify a “hand-to-hand combat instructor” though. The only thing close is SQI H which is an instructor. So maybe he took the same type of courses as Rock ‘n’ Roll and was assigned the same SQI. I do not know if one can specialize within that SQI or not though.
