1987 Characters, Page 5
Click-to-Reveal Profiles for WORMS, Gyro-Viper, Rumbler, Steam-Roller,
Hardtop, Payload, Starduster, and Steel Brigade
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+ Starduster
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Character Contributions
WORMS
- Maggot Driver: operates and maintains Cobra's modular long-range battle tank.
- Weapons/Ordnance: supervises and performs direct and general support maintenance on vehicle, infantry, and artillery fire control systems and equipment
- Rugged Machine Specialist: operates tracked and armored vehicles designed for travel over rough terrain and in inclement-weather environments.
Gyro-Viper
- Mamba Driver: operates and supervises the maintenance of Cobra's intermeshing-rotor attack synchropters and detachable flight pods.
Rumbler
- Crossfire Driver: operates and maintains the Joe Team's heavily armed off-road combat buggy.
- Fast Attack Vehicle Driver: operates desert patrol vehicles and other FAV and lightly armored equipment in combat and security operations. Maintains expertise in off-road control.
- Small Arms Armorer: Performs direct and general support maintenance and repairs on small arms and other infantry weapons, and towed artillery. Diagnoses and troubleshoots malfunctions on this and related equipment.
Steam-Roller
- Mobile Command Center Operator: commands and operates the G.I. Joe Mobile Command Center.
- Heavy Equipment Operator: operates crawler and wheeled tractors with dozer attachments, scoop loader, motorized grader, and towed or self-propelled scraper. Cuts and spreads fill material, stockpiles, backfills, and loads; Constructs berm, excavates sidehills, and finishes side slopes; performs surface and drainage maintenance.
- Armor: operates tracked and armored vehicles in combat and training exercises. Has special knowledge of tank-launched and tank-mounted weapons.
Hardtop
- Crawler Driver: oversees the maintenance and operation of the gantry, transport, and launch complex for the Space Shuttle Defiant. Employs Crawler defenses to clear and secure the area for launch.
- Heavy Equipment Operator: operates crawler and wheeled tractors with dozer attachments, scoop loader, motorized grader, and towed or self-propelled scraper. Cuts and spreads fill material, stockpiles, backfills, and loads; Constructs berm, excavates sidehills, and finishes side slopes; performs surface and drainage maintenance.
- Electronics: Performs electronic maintenance, adjustments, tests, fault isolation, and repairs of experimental equipment; operates and performs preventive maintenance checks and services on assigned vehicles and power generators.
- Tiger Force Special Operations: employs high-risk conventional and unconventional warfare tactics and techniques in individual and small unit infantry operations.
Payload
- Defiant Pilot: commands space shuttle missions, pilots the space shuttle, accomplishes on-orbit duties, operates Department of Defense payloads, and provides manned space flight consultation.
- Astronaut: operates and manages systems involved in space flight, surveilance, and satellite command and control.
- Fixed Wing Pilot: pilots fighter aircraft and commands crews to accomplish combat, training, and other missions. Reviews mission tasking, intelligence, and weather information; ensures aircraft is preflighted, inspected, loaded, equipped, and manned for mission. Performs, supervises, or directs mission training, navigation, in-flight refueling, and weapons delivery. Specialty in the F-4 Phantom long-range supersonic fighter-bomber.
Starduster
- Jet Pack Trooper: operates and maintains back-worn rocket-propulsion flight units in demonstration, rescue, and combat operations.
- Infantry Transportable Air Recon: uses flightpacks and other portable means to gather information and conduct raids and patrols to support a task force.
- Helicopter Assault: light infantry inserted by aircraft or helicopter to engage and destroy enemy forces or to seize and hold terrain.
- Counterintelligence Agent: supervises and conducts, or assists in conducting, CI surveys and investigations of individuals, organizations, and installations to detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit, and neutralize threats to national security.
Steel Brigade
- MOS options included:
Infantry, Medic, Airborne, Pilot, Intelligence, Artillery, Armor, SEAL, Communications, Jungle Warfare, Special Forces, Martial Arts, Computers, Drill Instructor, Rifle Instructor, Laser Weapons, Combat Engineer, Gunners Mate, Counter-Espionage, Radar, Electronics, Machinist, and Frogman.
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Comic and Animation Notes: Hardtop appeared in 6 issues betwen 1987 and 1994: #64, 65, 75, 109, 145, and Special Missions #28. He was animated only for a commercial featuring the Defiant.
Comic and Animation Notes: Payload appeared in 10 comics between 1987 and 1994: #64, 65, 109, 110, 145-149, and Special Missions #28. He was animated only for a commercial featuring the Defiant.
Comic and Animation Notes: Starduster did not appear in the Marvel comic, but a small mini-comic was issued with the figure. He was animated for a commercial for G.I. Joe Action Stars cereal. The chest strap direction reflects a "variant A" design.
Animation Notes: Animated WORMS were only briefly glimpsed in a commercial featuring the Maggot.
