Code Name: Sgt. Slaughter Drill Instructor File Name: CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET SN: 817-76-981 Primary Military Specialty: Infantry/Drill Instructor Secondary Military Specialty: Survival Trainer Birthplace: Parris Island, South Carolina Grade: E-8 -------------------- All the Joes are super-tough, and they've been through the roughest, most grueling training to become the most skilled specialists in the world. Because of this, just about every member of the G.I. Joe team is qualified to be a drill instructor, meaning it takes a special kind of heavy duty honcho to keep 'em squared away---a master of drill training to weld these stiff-necked tenderfoot Americans into the most stout and honorable positions in the Elite Mobile Strike Force. Sgt. Slaughter fits the bill the way his bullet head fits his Smokey the Bear hat. Slaughter is the only G.I. Joe drill instructor with the full authorization to drive the new Joe artillery machinery. Though all G.I. Joe personnel are capable of driving these vehicles, only the Sarge knows how to beat on one to get the most out of it. That's why he's the head D.I.--- because he knows exactly how to break in something new! He's also the only Joe with the nerve to pull even the high brass into an 0500 crawl through a mudhole with artillery fire blaring overhead...even General Hawk isn't safe from the Sarge's training regiment. After the Joes were disbanded, Sgt. Slaughter was granted seniority and promoted to a desk job with the Pentagon. After about a month, the Sarge had successfully "convinced" the brass that he wasn't ready to slip into a job as a pencil-pusher for the rest of his career. Slaughter was returned to Parris Island, acting as a drill sergeant---much to many new recruit's chagrin---until the Joes reformed. The Sarge has returned to what he does best, whipping troops into shape and intimidating Cobras with his mere presence. Let's face it---the man be rough and takes no guff. -------------------- Submitted by: Delgado, Hector X. "They say he cut his teeth on a bogey wheel from a Patton tank and that his first words were 'Semper Fi'. They say when the Sarge dresses down a boot in Camp LeJeune, the trainees cringe all the way to Pendleton; most boots would rather dive for apples in the grease trap than cross the Sarge. They say he can blow a month's pay in one night in Thule, Greenland. Of course, 'jarheads' are prone to exaggeration. We all know it is impossible to blow a month's pay in Thule, Greenland."   Submitted by: Melendez, Rafael J. "Sgt. Slaughter thinks it is his personal mission to kick the butt of every boot in Pendleton. This guy can drill his trainees into the ground 72 hours straight before he breaks a sweat. His favorite pastime is marching over the boys' backs while they do finger pushups in the mud, and spewing out brutal verbalities. He has been known to ride his tank through enemy fortresses rather than blow them up just because it is more fun. They say he eats nails and spits out dumdum bullets. They say he cleans his teeth with barbed wire, brushes his hair with a rattail file, and shaves with a blowtorch. Everything and everywhere is battlefield for Sgt. Slaughter."   Submitted by: Katzenbogen, David L. "Whenever Sgt. Slaughter gets behind the wheel of some heavy artillery, he's like a raging bull in the china shop, tearing up everything in his path! He runs it through the gauntlet, hammering at it and crushing it into the ground as if it were another 'wet-behind-the-ears' recruit. He's gotta be that way, 'cause no one is going to cut you a break on the battlefield. If it's not as tough as he is, he doesn't want it!"   Submitted by: Metzger, Wendell A. "When Sgt. Slaughter yells 'jump!', the men say 'how high?' He trains the toughest, most disciplined outfit in the military. The man is a master of getting the troops to do what he wants to be done! You can see it in his success ratio; he has never lost a confrontation! That means something, especially when he's constantly slugging it out with the most diabolical combat machine in the world...Cobra!"