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Serpentorslair Staff · January 19, 2024

G.I. Joe Inside The Filecards Featuring ‘Steeler’

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 Serpentorslair Staff19A MOS, Armor Officer, armor platoon, Artillery, artillery fire, Cavalry unit, CIA, combat arms branches, Covert Ops School, experimental armored fighting vehicles, filecards, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Steeler, Hama, Joes, Joint Fires Observer Course, Langley, Lieutenant, military career, O-1 rank, officer rank, OG13, PMS, Sergeant First Class, SMS, Staff Sergeants, tank, tank commander, tank platoon, tradecraft, Transportation, US Army, XAFV Project0 comment

Story by Staff Writer Shaft Today we look at G.I. Joe Steeler. His PMS is “Armor” and SMS is “Artillery” and “Transportation”. He is listed as a “Tank Commander”. A tank commander is actually a position in an armor platoon in the US Army (four tanks per platoon, four soldiers per tank). So there are four “tank commanders” per platoon, each leading their own tank. The actual platoon leader would be an officer of the rank of lieutenant and also serve as that tanks “tank commander”. The other three tank…

G.I. JOE INSIDE THE FILECARDS FEATURING ‘BREAKER’

December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 Serpentorslair Staff25 series, 25C Radio Operator Maintainer, 5th Special Forces Group, Breaker, CIA, Communications Sergeant, Covert Electronics, Covert Operations, E-7, E-8, G.I.Joe, Green Beret, Hasbro, Infantry, Language Training, Military MOS, OG13, Project Gamma, Radio TelePhone Operator, RTO, Signal Corps, Signal School, Special Forces, Surveillance Electronics, Vietnam War0 comment

Breaker is interesting in that he only has a PMS listed (Infantry) and no SMS. It also indicates he went to Signal School, which is what MOS’s in the Signal Corps Branch (25 series) go to. So his Infantry PMS and Signal School are very conflicting. What is usually not known is an RTO (Radio Tele-Phone Operator) within an Infantry platoon is not from the 25 series, but rather an 11B Infantryman assigned the radio. They usually give it to someone in the lower ranks (Privates). 25 series MOS’s typically…