Tag: Infantry

Serpentorslair Staff · April 12, 2024

G.I. Joe Inside the Filecards Featuring ‘Footloose’!

April 12, 2024April 13, 2024 Serpentorslair Staff11B Infantryman, 1985 class, 4th Infantry Division, basketball coach, civilian skills, civilian world, Footloose, G.I. Joe, Infantry, Joe Team, Larry Hama, military service, military training, secondary specialties, Special Services, unit, US Army0 comment

Story by Staff Writer ‘Shaft’ Today I am starting with the G.I. Joe class of ’85. We will look at Footloose today. He is listed as “Infantry” for his PMS and “Special Services (basketball coach)” for his SMS. Obviously he is an 11B Infantryman however for his special services I could not find anything US Army related to that kind of “specialty”. If Hama was intending for some of these to be skills the Joes picked up in the civilian world prior to military service then he probably should have…

Serpentorslair Staff · March 28, 2024

G.I. JOE INSIDE THE FILECARDS FEATURING ‘MUTT’!

March 28, 2024March 29, 2024 Serpentorslair Staff11B, 18 series SF, 31K Working Dog Handler MOS, 3rd Special Forces Group, Barricade, Charbroil, Combat Tracker Teams, dog handler, Duke, filecard, G.I. Joe, Hama, helmet insignia, Infantry, Jungle Warfare Training School, Lifeline, M-14, Military Police Branch, military working dog handler, Mutt, PMS, Roadblock, SMS, Special Forces, Special Ops School, US Army, Vietnam War, Vietnam War veteran0 comment

Story by Staff Writer ‘Shaft’ Today we look at G.I. Joe Mutt whose PMS is “Dog Handler” and SMS is “Infantry”. Nowadays a military working dog handler in the US Army is handled by a soldier in the Military Police Branch, specifically the 31K Working Dog Handler MOS. So a modern take on Mutt is he enlisted into Infantry as an 11B before re-classing as a 31K. However during Hama’s time he may have been thinking of Mutt more as an Infantryman trained as a dog handler during the Vietnam…

Serpentorslair Staff · February 1, 2024

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

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 Serpentorslair Staff18D Medical Sergeant, 18F Intelligence Sergeant, 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger), 75th Ranger Regiment, 89D EOD, Advanced Infantry Training, E-7 rank, EOD Specialist, G.I. Joe Stalker, Hasbro action figures, Infantry, Interpreter, Language training in the military, LRRP units, M-14 rifle, Marvel Comics, Medic, Military branches in the US Army, Military Intelligence, Military Intelligence School, Military reclassification, Military training and specialties, Ranger School, Real-world military vs fiction, Special Forces, US Army Ranger, Vietnam War0 comment

Story by Staff Writer SHAFT Today I take a look at G.I. Joe ‘Stalker‘. He is listed as “Ranger” and has a PMS of “Infantry” and SMS of “Medic” and “Interpreter”. We once again are into potentially three different US Army branches of Infantry, Medical Department and Military Intelligence, which would not be possible in a real world scenario. First let’s look at the word “Ranger’. This can be ambiguous as the US Army has two different types of Rangers: A soldier going through Ranger School which is open to…

Serpentorslair Staff · December 7, 2023

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…

Serpentorslair Staff · November 17, 2023

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

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Serpentorslair Staff35F Intelligence Analyst, 35L, Advanced Infantry Training, Classified, Counter Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence Special Agent, Covert Ops School, entry level MOS, filecard, Hama, Infantry, Intelligence, Intelligence Branch, liberties, M-14, Marine Sniper School, MOS, OG13, PMS, Ranger School, Rock'n'Roll, Scarlett, schools, SMS, Special Air Service, trained sniper, US Army, Vietnam War veteran, women0 comment

Today i delve into the filecard of the G.I. Joe character Scarlett. She has “Intelligence” listed as her PMS and “Classified” as SMS. Her filecard also mentions “Counter Intelligence” so that helps define what MOS she would be in, which is a 35L Counter-Intelligence Special Agent. From what I read a few years ago a 35L is not an entry level MOS but reading now on the US Army’s website that has appeared to change. If you go by Scarlett enlisting years ago then she probably would have started out…