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| LANSKY. An air traffic
controller at the
McCord Air Force Base in Washington, DC. Lansky was on duty when a
government
jet carrying a bio-lab carrying the Death Angel virus was hijacked and
disappeared off radar. (FL 11) |
| LAW & ORDER. The code
names used by
Military Police officer Corporal Christopher Lavigne and his canine
partner.
Law grew up in Houston, where he became a cop and walked a beat in the
city's Fifth Ward for two years. Finding his job unfulfilling, he
enlisted
for the military police, and brought his German Shepherd, Order, with
him.
Law has an affinity for animals and is a trained dog handler. He is
also
became airborne qualified as part of his military training.
|
| LEATHERNECK. The code name
used by U.S.
Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Wendell A. Metzger. Born in Stromsburg,
Nebraska,
Leatherneck enlisted at a young age to start a long career in the
Marine
Corps. After serving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Leatherneck fought in the
war in Vietnam as a member of the 1st Recon Battalion. After the war,
he
became a drill instructor, serving at Parris Island and finally Camp
Lejeune.
Around 1986, he was recruited for the G.I. Joe team. Leatherneck is
tough,
loyal and mean. Any Joe would feel safe having him watch his back, but
that doesn't mean they like him. Leatherneck is gruff, opinionated,
overbearing
and stubborn. He has no patience with anyone he sees as indecisive,
lazy
or dishonest. This attitude has brought him into several confrontations
with his teammates, but Leatherneck is always at his best on the
battlefield.
|
| LT. FALCON. see FALCON |
 LIFELINE.
The
code name used by U.S. Army Captain Edwin C. Steen. Lifeline grew up in
an affluent Seattle neighborhood, where he lived alone with his father
after his mother died when he was very young. A quite, sensitive child,
he lived alone with an abusive, workaholic father, whose abuse made
Lifeline
shun violence in his life. He learned the non-violent, defensive
martial
art of Akido and decided he wanted to work in a field where he could
help
to heal others. He began working as a paramedic for the Seattle Fire
Department,
but when he learned he could jeopardize his pension if injured while
providing
care off duty, Lifeline decided to enlist in the Army where he would
never
be off duty. After basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, he attended
X-Ray technician school at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. After a few years,
he was offered a postion on the G.I. Joe team.. As a combat medic he
was
officially a non-combatant, and intended to stay that way.
On one of his earliest missions, for the Joes, Lifeline was constantly berated by the marine Leatherneck for his unwillingness to fight, even in the face of enemy fire and injured teammates. Lifeline didn't let the insults bother him, and tended to the others' wounds, even Leatherneck's. As in many other missions, Lifeline was more than willing to lend a hand at other non-medical tasks, as long as he didn't have to use a weapon. At the end of the missions, Lifeline gave up the Joes' primary objective in order to save the lives of the Joes and members of the October Guard, ensuring that he and Leatherneck would never settle their differences. Lifeline continued to participate in many more missions, including the Cobra Island civil war, which the Joes entered on the side of Serpentor. A short time after the war, Lifeline and a number of Joes flew a Tomahawk rescue chopper into Southeast Asia to pick up four Joes who had been on a long mission since before the war. The aircraft went up against Russian attack helicopters and was nearly shot down before the team reached their objective and picked up their teammates. In subsequent years, Lifeline was one of the Joes who met the original G.I. Joe and later heped the Joes fighting to stop Darklonian terrorists in the heart of New York City. Lifeline remained with the Joes until the death of the team's
medical
doctor, Doc, prior to the Battle of Benzheen. He was given the
opportunity
to go to medical school and attended John Hopkins University. Before he
could complete his schooling, the Joe team was shut down in 1994. He
worked
at Walter Reed medical center for the next several years until 2001,
when
he was assigned to the reinstated G.I. Joe team. Lifeline's first task
with the new team was to try and discover a way to stop the Cobra
nano-mites
that had infected many of the Joes. With Mainframe's help, he figured
out
how to save them. He later headed to the Arctic circle to investigate a
secret laboratory where experiments had gone wrong and fought the
mutated
humans trapped inside. (GI 56, 63, 67, 74, 75, 77, 86, 95,
129; SM 4, 18, 19, 25; GIv2 2-4, 22-26, 36-38, 40; FL 5-8, 16; BF 1; AE 15; Figures: 1, 2, 3) |
 LIFT-TICKET.
The
code name used by U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Victor W. Sikorski.
Lift-Ticket
joined the Army to get out of his hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. What
made
him different was the fact that his scores on the aptitude test were so
high that he qualified for West Point Prep, Officer Candidate School
(OCS)
and Flight Warrant Officer School. No one in his hometown had expected
Lift-Ticket was that smart, including himself. He opted for Flight
School,
seeing it as the only position with skills that could apply to civilian
employment. Lift-Ticket became know for being skilled and persistant
enough
to get to a landing zone amidst enemy fire. Adding that to his apparent
good luck made the G.I. Joe team take notice and offer him a position
flying
their new Tomahawk assault and rescue helicopter. Lift-Ticket was put
into
immediate action with the Joes, transporting one portion of their
invasion
force during the Battle of Springfield. For the next several years,
Lift-Ticket
and his Tomahawk took part in many operations. He delivered a group of
Joes to the top of a glacier in Greenland, transported wounded Joes and
stolen Terror-Drome components in Sierra Gordo, ferried Joes from Fort
Wadsworth to the new Pit in Utah and rescued a small team from a
near-disastrous
mission into Southeast Asia. During the Joes involvement in the Cobra
Island
civil war, Lift-Ticket's Tomahawk, carrying several Joes was hit by
enemy
fire as it off-loaded them on the ground. Lift-Ticket was injured in
the
attack and was out of commission for the rest of the battle. It wasn't
long before he made a full recovery and served as co-pilot aboard a
C-130
transport plane, bringing a group of Joes to a newly-formed, unstable
island
to prevent Cobra from claiming it as a second Cobra Island. A short
time
after that mission, Lift-Ticket and a number of Joes flew a Tomahawk
rescue
chopper into Southeast Asia to pick up four Joes who had been on a long
mission since before the Cobra civil war. The aircraft went up against
Russian attack helicopters and was nearly shot down before the team
reached
their objective and picked up their teammates. Lift-Ticket continued on
with the team for years on various dangerous missions, including the
Joes'
biggest operation yet, the Battle of Benzheen. At one point he even
accomplished
a believed-to-be impossible feat by barrel-rolling his helicopter to
save
Joes that fell from the top of the Cobra Consulate in New York. He
remained
on the team until it was shut down in 1994. Years later, he again
served
with the Joes during their mission to stop terrorist Tyler Wingfield
and
joined the team's invasion of Cobra Island to battle the forces of a
revived
Serpentor. (GI 49, 56, 62, 65, 73, 74, 75, 77,
80, 81, 82, 86, 93, 96, 98,
111, 113, 116, 117, 125; SM 2, 8, 16, 18, 19, 23, 28; GIv2 24; FL 12; AE 15; Figure: 1) |
LIGHTFOOT. The code name used
by U.S. Army
Sergeant Cory R. Owens, from Wichita, Kansas. Lightfoot is a explosives
expert known for his vast knowledge from years of studying the military
manuals' sections detailing the calculations needed to create explosive
devices, as well as the types and amounts of explosives needed for
demolitions
work. He is extremely meticulous in his job to ensure the safety of
himself
and those around him. His skills made him a candidate for the G.I. Joe
team.  While
most members of the team are simply hand-picked from the elite of the
armed
forces, some soldiers undergo the weeding out process of the Joes own
version
of boot camp. Lightfoot holds the unique distinction of being the only
Joe to go through that training twice. After
the first time
through, Lightfoot made it all the way to his "final exam" -- and
actual
mission out in the field. A supposedly simple mission in the Middle
Eastern
nation of Trucial Abysmia to destroy a buried U.S. weapons cache became
much more when the team led by Outback and Dusty were ambushed and
captured
by the local army. When the Joes refused to talk, the unit's
overzealous
political officer took charge and decided to torture the Joes into
talking.
He randomly chose Lightfoot, who was severely beaten for a time, but
refused
to talk. But when they used alligator clips to shock him with
electricity,
it was too much for him to bear, and Lightfoot revealed the team's
objective.
The young recruit, Mangler, chastised Lightfoot for giving in, but
Dusty
and Outback backed him after seeing what he'd been through. The Joes
were
left behind with a junior officer to execute them while the rest of the
enemy unit went to find the cache. The officer disagreed with the
torture
of Lightfoot and let the Joes go rather than execute them. Left in the
desert with only a small amount of water, the Joes were ready to head
for
friendly territory, but it was Lightfoot who pushed them to complete
the
mission. He could barely walk and Mangler carried him on his back
through
the desert. Lightfoot was on the mission to destroy the cache and the
Joes
did so and escaped thanks to Mangler sacrificing his life. It was
months
before Lightfoot returned to active duty, but was forced the undergo
the
rigorous G.I. Joe boot camp to be a member of the team. Only he, Budo
and
Repeater made it through. Their first mission for the team soon
followed,
and it was another "final exam". The Piccatinny weapons arsenal
was
being raided by Cobra forces. After their team leader, Grand Slam, was
injured in a firefight, the three new Joes performed well and repelled
the attackers, learning in the process that it was actually Destro's
Iron
Grenadier army disguised as Cobra who had attacked the arsenal. Over
the
years, Lightfoot's missions included battling with Cobra agents in
Manhattan
-- during which the Joes met the original G.I. Joe -- and stopping a
group
of Darklonian terrorists in the heart of New York City. He served with
the team until it was shut down in 1994. Some time after the team was
reinstated
in 2001, Lightfoot joined
the
team in New York, where he assisted in clean-up and rescue operations
after
Cobra detonated a bomb in a television studio where Hawk was appearing
on the television show, "Twenty Questions." (GI
82, 86; SM 13,
25; GIv2 29, 34; Figures: 1, 2) |
| LILIAN OSBORNE. see MISTRESS
ARMADA |
| LIN, MAY. A television news
reporter covering
the aftermath of a battle at Manhattan's Battery Park Marina between a
group of Joes and Cobra Mamba helicopters led by Destro, a short time
after
the Joe team was officially disbanded by the military. (FL
2) |
 LONG
RANGE. The code name used by U.S. Army Sergeant First Class
Karl W. Fritz. As a boy in Warwick, Rhode Island, Long Range had
difficulty
grasping simple arithmetic. As he grew up he did, however find a
natural
aptitude for trigonometry and calculus. When he enlisted in the Army,
Long
Range joined the Artillery corps where he could put his trigonomety to
good use, plotting the trajectory of artillery shells and came to be so
accurate that he became known as "The Knock Out Man". He eventually
became
part of the G.I. Joe team, driving the Joes' long-range artillery
vehicle,
the Thunderclap. On one of his earliest missions, Long Range and
other Joes were supposedly demonstrating the Thunderclap to the nation
of Punta del Mucosa's El Presidente, but they instead used the
vehicle's
"test firing" to fire into neighboring Sierra Gordo, helping a group of
Joes escape the country after rescuing a team of Joes and members of
the
October Guard who were being held prisoner there. Long Range continued
to operate the Thunderclap for years before the Joe team was shut down
in 1994. (GI 92, 99, 110; Figure: 1) A later "Long Range" figure is a different
character. |
| LOUIE. A police officer in the
Springfield
Police Department who -- along with fellow officers Huey and Duey --
was
beaten up by the Soft Master when the old ninja master tried to access
the police station's computer records in the Cobra-controlled town. (GI
42) |
 LOW-LIGHT.
The
code name used by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Cooper G. MacBride. While
growing
up in Crosby, North Dakota, young Cooper was a timid child who was
terribly
afraid of the dark. When his father took him out on a hunting
expedition,
the boy got lost in the woods, and spent much time in the pitch
blackness.
By the time he was found three weeks later, Cooper had conquered his
fears
and became stronger for it. After joining the Army, Low-Light became a
self-taught expert on image intensification and later became an
instructor
at the Army marksmanship program at Fort Benning. His knowledge and
skill
made the G.I. Joe team take notice and recruit him. On one of his
earliest
missions with the team, Low-Light joined a group of Joes sent to aid
the
counter-revolutionaries of Sierra Gordo, who were fighting a government
backed by Cobra. The mission was actually two-fold, since the Joes also
had to rescue Snake-Eyes, who was being held in Cobra's Terror-Drome
launch
base. During the mission, Low-Light used his skills as a sniper to fire
tranquilizer darts at Cobra troopers through the dark jungle so that
the
Joes could steal their uniforms and sneak into the base undetected.
After
spending some time with the rest of the team, helping to finish the
construction
of the new Pit in Utah, Low-Light was sent on a dangerous mission into
Southeast Asia. The Joes were sent to retrieve traitor and spy Theron
Portland
who had stolen valuable microchips and met up with a Soviet armored
convoy
near the border of Thailand. Low-Light's task was too shoot and kill
Portland
if they were unable to capture him. In reality, the mission was
designed
to fail by CIA agent Anderson. Portland was meant to defect and the
chips
contained a computer virus that was to disable Soviet computers. They
had
also analyzed Low-Light psychological profile and decided he wouldn't
shoot
the unarmed Portland. The Joes barely made it to their extraction
chopper
with their lives. Low-Light himself reached the aircraft just as it
lifted
off and he was being fired upon by the Russians. Once on board, he
admitted
that he couldn't kill Portland, especially while the man begged for his
life. Unfortunately for the dishonest CIA agent, Low-Light knocked
Portland
out with the butt of his rifle and took the microchips that the Soviets
were supposed to hang on to. Low-Light took part in many more
operations,
including a hostage situation in Germany, the Cobra Island civil war, a
fight with Cobra Vipers in Manhattan when the Joes met the original
G.I.
Joe, and he defense of Castle Destro when Cobra attacked their former
weapons
supplier's home in Scotland. After the Joe team was shut down in 1994,
Low-Light bcame a special agent for the Army's Criminal Investigation
Division,
though he found the work less challenging than his time with the Joes.
In 2001, the G.I. Joe team was reinstated to fight a renewed Cobra, and
Low-Light was thrilled to rejoin the team. He was later one of the many
Joes involved in an invasion of Cobra Island to battle the forces of a
revived Serpentor. A short time later, headed to Sierra Gordo on a
mission to assist the small nation's army in fighting off an invasion
of Destro's Iron Grenadiers, who had allied with the country's
neighbor, Sierra Muerte. In reality, the entire operation was allowed
to go forward thanks to Duke, who had let it happen as a means to
capture Destro. Low-Light was injured in battle during that operation,
and many Joes were angry that Duke had never told them the true reason
behind their mission and had endangered the lives of his teammates.
Low-Light eventually recovered from his injuries and returned to duty.
Some time later, after the Joes stopped a plot by Cobra to unleash the
weapon known as the Tempest, and defeated a new threat, the Red
Shadows, the military again disbanded the team. One year later, the Joe
team was reformed with a smaller roster of active members. Low-Light,
like most former Joes, is a reserve member of the new team. He was
called back to duty to stop a group of terrorists who had taken control
of a Cobra biological weapon facility in Manhattan. (GI
55, 63, 64,
74, 75, 76, 77, 83, 86, 116, 117, 119,
130; SM 8, 11; GIv2 24, 25, 28, 29, 30; BF 1; FL 16; SM:M; Figures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) |
| LUNDQUIST, SERGEANT. A
sergeant in the
Springfield Police Department, who was shocked to watch the Soft Master
beat up three officers in his the police station in the
Cobra-controlled
town. He fired on the old ninja master several times, but he managed to
dodge every shot. The frightened Lundquist eventually let him access
the
station's computer records to look up information on the death of the
Hard
Master. (GI 42) |
| LYDIA.The
wife of G.I. Joe team member Lonzo "Stalker" Wilkinson. Lydia met
Stalker when he and two other Joes were vacationing in Mexico. They
stayed at the same hotel and Lydia and Stalker met while relaxing at
the pool. Their budding romance was cut short when Stalker had to help
his teammates stop a group of terrorists who had hijacked a tour bus
full of tourists. They both kept in touch over the years and were
married some time after the Joe team was shut down in 1994. Lydia all
ready had a son named Alvin and she and Stalker had a son who they
named Jamal. While living in Detroit, Stalker got the call to return to
the newly reinstated G.I. Joe team and the family moved into housing at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Recently, the Joes have opened
new headquarters, though it is not yet known if Stalker's family moved
to a new home. (SM 27; GIv2 1, 6; FL 15) |
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When
Law first believed he had joined the G.I. Joe team, he was assigned to
guard a top secret missile silo hidden on the Jersey shore, along with
two other soldiers. A short time later, a man codenamed Chuckles
arrived
and told them that they were not really a part of the Joe team. An
intelligence
agent Chuckles was investigating was covering up the existence of the
missile
silo. To protect the missile, he reassigned Law and the others and told
them they were part of the G.I. Joe team. To clear their names, the men
"kidnapped" Hawk from the Newark airport and showed him the missile.
Meanwhile,
a group of Dreadnoks learned of the missile and found out it was aimed
at Cobra Island. A brief battle followed, ending when a Cobra
helicopter
arrived and destroyed the missile just as it launched. Hawk offered Law
and the others -- including Order -- a spot on the Joe team then and
there.
Law joined the team just as the new Pit in Utah was completed. During
the
Cobra Island civil war, Law was one of the few Joes who did not
participate
in the operation. He and Order remained at the Pit, seeing to the
base's
security. Just after the war, Law and Order joined Cross Country, Mutt
and his dog Junkyard on a surveillance mission keeping watch over the
Dreadnoks'
New Jersey hideout. They were eventually spotted by the mercenaries and
after a brief battle arrested some of them. Those Dreadnoks were soon
released
due to legal technicalities, upsetting Law and the other Joes, but soon
after, Zarana and Zanzibar were arrested by New Jersey State Police
officers.
Law stayed at the local police station where they were being held,
trying
to let the officers know just how dangerous the Dreadnoks were. He was
proved right when a newly-arrived Dreadnok named Road Pig arrived and
started
destroying the station until he freed Zarana and Zanzibar. Law
continued
to serve the Joe team for many years until the team was shut down in
1994.
Years later, he again served with the Joes during their mission to stop
terrorist Tyler Wingfield. (
Leatherneck's
first mission with the Joe team was one of the team's biggest
operations
ever, the Battle of Springfield. After that first mission, the Joe team
was placed on suspension and quartered at Fort Wadsworth. During this
time,
Cobra attacked the Pit and the Joes' headquarters was destroyed. Once
the
team was back on duty, Leatherneck joined a group of Joes sent to aid
the
counter-revolutionaries of Sierra Gordo, who were fighting a government
backed by Cobra. The mission was actually two-fold, since the Joes also
had to rescue Snake-Eyes, who was being held in Cobra's Terror-Drome
launch
base. The rescue was successful until Stalker -- the team leader -- was
seriously wounded. Snake-Eyes was the next senior man and relieved him,
staying behind while the other Joes got Stalker to safety. Snake-Eyes
was
captured again and rescued some time later. A short time after that,
Leatherneck
and a group of Joes traveled to the war-torn Middle East where they
stole
a top secret spy plane from the dictator Colonel Sharif. Leatherneck's
next mission was in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The Joes were on a
transport
plane carrying a stolen Cobra Firebat when they were attacked and shot
down by the October Guard, who had sustained enough damage from the
Joes
to crash as well. The team was forced to bail out of their plane and
the
Joes headed out to find the plane before the Soviets got there first.
One
of the Joes' medics, Lifeline, took part in the mission and quickly
came
into conflict with Leatherneck. Lifeline was a pacifist, and refused to
fight or use violence in any way, even in the face of enemy fire which
injured Wild Bill. Leatherneck thought Lifeline was a useless coward
and
told him so, though the medic continued to do his job and ignore the
marine's
insults. Leatherneck never came to respect Lifeline, and was angered
when
the mission ended with Lifeline giving up the team's objective to save
their lives and the October Guard's lives from vicious river pirates.
Some
time later, Leatherneck confronted Outback when the Joe returned from
the
nation of Borovia. Outback, Stalker, Quick Kick and Snow Job went on a
secret mission into the country, but only Outback evaded capture and
returned
home. Though he left the others behind per Stalker's orders, many of
the
Joes were suspicious. Leatherneck openly questioned Outback's honesty.
Outback wasn't interested in his opinion, but when Leatherneck started
to threaten him, Outback pulled a hunting knife on him, warning the
marine
not to threaten him. The situation calmed down and Roadblock explained
that Outback was following Stalker's orders. Leatherneck wasn't
completely
convinced (recalling the mission in Sierra Gordo when Stalker wanted no
man left behind), but he never brought it up with Outback again.
Leatherneck
continued to participate in many more missions, including a
near-disastrous
mission to capture a traitorous American scientist in Southeast Asia
when
the man was travelling with a Soviet convoy. He was also one of the
many
Joes who took part in the Cobra Island civil war, which the Joes
entered
on the side of Serpentor. Leatherneck stayed with G.I. Joe for the next
several years until the team was shut down in 1994. He was later called
back to join the reinstated Joe team in its battle against the forces
of
a revived Serpentor on Cobra Island. (