
1989 Characters, Page 2
Click-to-Reveal Profiles for HEAT Viper, Gnawgahyde, Backblast,
Downtown, Frag-Viper, Night-Viper, and Annihilator
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+ HEAT Viper
+ Gnawgahyde
+ Backblast
+ Downtown
+ Frag-Viper
+ Night-Viper
+ Annihilator
Character Contributions
HEAT Viper
- Cobra Bazooka Man: The bazooka is a man-portable anti-armor rocket launcher using high explosive anti-tank shells.
- High-Explosive Anti-Tank Trooper: uses conventional or improvised high explosives to disable or destroy armored vehicles and armor-protected fortifications.
- Earthquake Driver: operates and maintains Cobra earth mover vehicles and other heavy equipment to provide combat engineering support.
Gnawgahyde
- Dreadnok Poacher: illegally acquires and sells plants, game, and supplies from private land to further the interests of the Dreadnoks or their current employers.
Backblast
- Anti-Aircraft Specialist: supervises or serves as a member of man-portable air defense system missile units and air defense activity engaged in operations and intelligence functions.
- Air Defense Artillery: operates, maintains, and supplies ammunition for man-portable multiple-launch surface-to-surface and air-defense missile systems. Applies infrared techniques to detect and engage targets.
- Signal Corps: coordinates, supervises, and participates in the operation and management of integrated C2 telecommunications and information management networks. Uses computers to control and monitor network status in an operational environment and helps develop frequency alocation plans. Develops and implements battlefield signal operations plans.
Downtown
- Mortar Man: The indirect fire infantryman serves as a supervisor or as a member of a mortar squad, section, or platoon. Employs crew and individual weapons in offensive, defensive, and retrograde ground combat tactical operations.
- Infantry: The infantryman supervises, leads, or serves as a member of an infantry activity that employs individual or crew served weapons in support of offensive and defensive combat operations.
- Special Operations: employs highly demanding conventional and and high-risk unconventional warfare and techniques in individual and small unit infantry operations
Frag-Viper
- Cobra Grenade Thrower: operates and maintains man-portable grenade launchers; performs infantry activities with fragmentation explosives as primary armament.
- Demolitions: performs and teaches tasks in demolitions, explosives, improvised munitions, and mine/counter-mine operations. Plans, teaches, and performs sabotage operations with standard, nonstandard, and improvised munitions and explosives.
Night-Viper
- Cobra Night Fighter/Night Spotter: assists and performs reconnaissance operations by operating, maintaining, and zeroing night vision devices to engage targets; leads after-dark tracking and covert operations missions.
- Squad Leader: Leads an infantry squad and/or a reconnaissance (scout) team during combat operations. Supervises tactical deployment of assigned element in offensive, defensive, and retrograde operations. Provides tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to both subordinates and superiors in the accomplishment of their duties.
Annihilator
- Destro's Elite Trooper: select soldiers recruited with higher standards than normal troops, for purposes of power projection, expeditionary warfare, and special operations requiring superior skills. Elite units may be created and maintained for political as well as military purposes.
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