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  ZAP.
The code name used by U.S. Army Corporal Rafael J. Melendez, from New
York City. He studied to become an engineer and trained in the Army'
Ordnance
School after enlisting. It was there that Zap became familiar with
anti-tank
and armor-piercing weapons. He also became a demolitions expert. He
later
was recruited by the G.I. Joe team. Zap is known for being laid-back
and
staying cool even when working with things that can blow up in his face
at any time. He's infamous for his strange and sometimes dark sense of
humor. Zap was one of the original 13 members of the G.I. Joe team. He
was part of many of the Joes' major missions including the rescue of
Dr.
Adele Burkhart. Grunt quite possibly saved the country from
annihilation
when he helped Zap disarm a nuclear bomb set to detonate by Commander
Wingfield,
the leader of a local para-military group funded by Cobra. Zap also
defended
the U.S. space shuttle when Cobra attacked Cape Canaveral, Florida. Zap
was part of many other major operations as well. Zap, along with
Scarlett
and Snake-Eyes were the first Joes to learn that Cobra was
hedaquartered
in the United States in the town of Springfield. The group was
kidnapped
and left in a jail cell until they escaped with the help of a young
boy,
who they would later learn was Billy, the son of Cobra Commander. The
Joes
never learned the town's exact location, but they brought back valuable
information about Cobra's operations. After the re-dedication of G.I.
Joe
headquarters, aka "The Pit", Zap and many of the other original Joes
were
taken off active duty. He still occasionally participated on missions
with
the team. He was part of the G.I. Joe security team during the invasion
of the Cobra-controlled town of Springfield. On that mission, Zap
dicovered
an underground tunnel system that had been lined with explosives set to
go off when Cobra forces evacuated the town. He was unable to disarm
the
hundreds of bombs lining the town but his warning saved many lives.
Later,
Zap helped to establish the new G.I. Joe headquarters in Utah. After
that
Zap became involved in recruiting and training potential members of the
team. Many of his subsequent missions remain classified, but Zap stayed
on the Joe team until it was disbanded in 1994. Some time after the
team
was reinstated in 2001, Short-Fuze and many other former Joes joined
the
team on another invasion of Cobra Island, this time to fight the forces
of a revived Serpentor. (GI 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16,
22,
25, 33, 49, 50, 64, 82; SM 24; YB 2; GIv2
24, 29, 36; GI:D 1-3; Figures: 1, 2, 3, 4) |
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