Warrant Officer
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File Name: Dashiell R. Fairborn
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Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas |
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Rank: Chief Warrant Officer
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Primary Military Specialty: Infantry |
Secondary Military Specialty: Helicopter Pilot
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Status: Inactive (Resigned) |
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First Appearance: G.I. JOE # 37 (July 1985)
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"This is bad... a pro shouldn't let the fight get personal... I should
calm down and -- Naaah! I'll worry about it after I stomp a few more
Cobras!"
— Flint
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Before joining the Army,
Flint
was a Rhodes scholar and earned a degree in English Literature, before
deciding he was bored with scholarly pursuits and enlisted. He
graduated
with top honors from Airborne School, Ranger School, Special Forces
School
and Flight Warrant Officers School, and is also a qualified helicopter
pilot. Out in the field, Flint quickly gained a reputation for leading
dangerous rescue missions. He met
Duke some time before either of them
joined G.I. Joe, and a few years later, Duke recruited him for the
team.
Flint's outspoken, self-confident personality often borders on
arrogance,
but his actions usually back up his attitude.
Before his first mission
with
the team, Flint's first meeting with Lady Jaye was less than civil.
Lady
Jaye didn't like Flint's attitude, and didn't mind letting him know it.
Shortly afterward, the Joes discovered Cobra operatives at the Arbco
Brothers
Circus. Flint dove off of a Dragonfly helicopter onto the top of a
roller-coaster
where he fought Tomax and Xamot, the Crimson Guard commanders. Flint
took part in a number of other missions with the team before leading a
rescue mission to Cobra Island to save Ripcord. The team thought they
had
succeeded, but "Ripcord" was in fact Zartan in disguise. The master of
disguise was eventually captured by the Joes, but not before causing
havoc
in Joe headquarters. Soon after that, Flint, Beach Head and Lady Jaye
foiled
Russian airline hijackers who had smuggled weapons onto an airplane in
San Francisco. While Zartan sat in a cell at the Pit, Flint and the
rest
of the Joes invaded the Cobra-controlled town of Springfield. Upon
their
return, Zartan's siblings and the Dreadnoks rescued Zartan. Flint and a
team of Joes tracked the Dreadnoks to the New Jersey swamplands, where
the Dreadnoks' Thunder Machine arrived, taking the Joes by surprise and
allowing the mercenaries to escape.
In the
aftermath
of the battle of Springfield, the Joe team was put on suspension and
the
Pit was sealed. The team was quartered in standard barracks at Fort
Wadsworth.
During this down time, Cobra sent in a team to invade the Pit. In a
secluded
area of Fort Wadsworth near a river, Flint made his first pass at Lady
Jaye. Again, his ego got in the way, and Lady Jaye wasn't interested.
The
pair then saw a half dozen Cobra Eels (divers) emerge from the river.
Realizing
the Pit was about to be invaded, Flint charged into the midst of the
Eels,
taking them on to give Lady Jaye time to warn the other Joes. As Lady
Jaye
ran off to warn the others, she realized that Flint wasn't the arrogant
jerk she thought he was. Flint didn't last long up against the Eels.
They
left him for dead on the shore, but the final Eel who was supposed to
do
away with Flint didn't expect he was still conscious, and paid for it.
After knocking out the Eel, Flint was a little worried about losing
perspective:
"This is bad... a pro shouldn't let the fight get personal... I should
calm down and -- Naaah! I'll worry about it after I stomp a few more
Cobras!"
Led by Flint, the Joes were able to arm themselves, but it was too
late.
Cobra BATs had invaded the Pit and Hawk was forced to destroy it. Joe
headquarters
was lost and Cobra escaped. Seeing that the threat of Cobra was very
real,
the army took the Joe team off suspension. While Flint recovered from
his
fight with the Eels, he and Lady Jaye became closer, and he even came
to
confide his fears to Lady Jaye. During Flint's recovery, Hawk sent
Snake-Eyes
into Sierra Gordo disguised as Flint. Snake-Eyes was to infiltrate
Cobra's
Terror-Drome, but was too well known by Cobra.
Soon, Flint returned to
the field with Scarlett and a team of Joes in Sierra Gordo. They
captured
the Terror-Drome, but Cobra got away with Snake-Eyes. A short time
later,
Flint was sent on a mission into Scotland with Lady Jaye. Destro --
presumed
dead -- had been spotted arriving in Scotland. He was returning home
and
had decided to break his ties with Cobra. Flint and Lady Jaye teamed
with
two British operatives in order to obtain the plans for Cobra's
Terror-Dromes
from Destro. They watched as Destro arrived at Castle Destro only to be
met by an impostor, posing as him, who promptly had Destro arrested.
The
Joes decided to break Destro out of jail and Lady Jaye used her
undercover
skills to pose as an elderly charity worker to get access to Destro's
cell.
Once inside, she got Destro to safety as Flint and the others blew a
whole
in the jail's wall, freeing the weapons supplier. Together, they
exposed
the impostor, and though Destro could have easily disposed of the Joes
with his private army, but he decided to honor his deal with the Joes.
From that time on, Destro was less apt to see the Joes as his enemies.
Some time later, Flint and
Lady Jaye went with Scarlett and Snake-Eyes on vacation to Grenada.
While
there, Lady Jaye and Flint were horrified when Scarlett and Snake-Eyes
were apparently killed by a landmine. In reality, they had faked their
deaths so that they could undertake an unauthorized rescue of three
Joes
being held in a Soviet gulag in Borovia. During the months that
followed,
Flint led a team of Joes into Southeast Asia to ambush a Soviet armored
column and capture a Russian scientist carrying top secret computer
chips.
In reality, the mission was meant to fail. The CIA operative in charge
of the mission expected the Joes to never succeed. He instead wanted
the
chips to remain in Russian hands, since they would sabotage Soviet
computer
systems. Despite the CIA agent's betrayal, Flint's team made it out
alive
and inadvertently ruined the agent's mission, anyway. When Snake-Eyes
and
Scarlett finally returned from their unauthorized rescue mission, Flint
could not keep his anger at them, in check. He blurted out that they
could
have included he and Lady Jaye in the mission and not make fools of
them!
Lady Jaye was so upset by Flint's outburst that she punched him,
knocking
him to the ground. She angrily told him that Snake-Eyes and Scarlett
did
what they did to protect their friends. The argument didn't last long,
however, and Lady Jaye and Flint admitted to their feelings for each
other.
Months later, Flint and Lady Jaye were interrupted during a tender
moment
by a Cobra infiltrator in the Pit. They sounded the alarm and chased
the
intruder, but he escaped. That infiltrator's stealing of a secret
military
"black box" sparked the Joes involvement in the Cobra Island civil war.
Lady Jaye, Flint and Mainframe served as the Joes' operations team on
board
the U.S.S. Flagg aircraft carrier. They were disappointed that they
never
made it into the battle. Flint was later teamed up with Lady Jaye,
Scarlett
and Snake-Eyes on an undercover mission into Darklonia. They posed as
obnoxious
American tourists to the eastern European nation in order to expose a
traitor
in the Wolkekuckuckland military, which was being advised by the Joes.
Over the next few months,
Flint
took part in a battle with Dreadnoks on a Long Island expressway,
stopped
two brainwashed Joes from getting loose in Pit III and journeyed into
the
nation of Sierra Gordo, where a group of Joes teamed with the new
October
Guard. Lady Jaye had to deal with Flint's jealousy as she flirted with
the Guard's Lt. Gorky. The team eventually made it out of Sierra Gordo
alive, but just barely. Flint also took part in the Battle of Benzheen,
a major operation in the middle east in which many Joes lost their
lives.
Just after that, Flint was one of the Joes who assisted Destro when
Cobra
Commander decided to exact his revenge on Destro once and for all. Once
again, the Joes and Destro became reluctant allies. For a short time
after
that, Flint led the team known as the Eco-Warriors in their fight
against
former Cobra operative Cess-pool. One of Flint's last missions
for
the Joe team took him back into eastern Europe with Flint, Hawk,
Stalker
and Snake-Eyes. The Joes were trying to stop Cobra's invasion of
Wolkekuckuckland,
advising the military once again. They succeeded in rescuing Snake-Eyes
from Cobra's castle in Trans-Carpathia. During his time on the Joe
team,
Flint was a vital part of the team as both a soldier and a leader.
Despite
his occasionally arrogant behavior and his fiery temper, Flint is
well-respected
and well-liked by his teammates, who know that there is a courageous
man
under all his bluster. Flint remained on the Joes team until it was
disbanded
in 1994.
Artwork: G.I. JOE #114
(interior
- dossier)
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