WINDMILL. The code name used by U.S. Army Captain Edward J. Roth from Allentown, Pennsylvania. A skilled pilot with years of flight experience, Windmill became a flight instructor at the Army Flight Warrant Officers School in Fort Rucker. Later, he flew experimental prototype helicopters there, for the Army Aviation Department Test Activity. Eventually, Windmill was assigned to the G.I. Joe team as pilot of the new, advanced Skystorm X-Wing Chopper (a combination fighter jet and helicopter). He became known among the Joes for his dry, sarcastic sense of humor. When first assigned to the team, Windmill traveled to the Pit with Skidmark in the new desert fox jeep. They unwittingly gave Cobra's Star Viper access to the Pit when the electronically-enhanced Viper snuck underneath the Desert Fox. Windmill and the others chased the Star Viper later that evening as he escaped with top secret electronic "black boxes". His escape led to the Joes' involvement in the Cobra Island civil war. Over the years, Windmill served on many missions, often as air support or on reconnaissance operations, until the team was shut down in 1994. Some time after the Joe team was reinstated in 2001, Windmill served as a pilot during the team's invasion of Cobra Island to battle the forces of a revived Serpentor.