Shipwreck (SG)

"The G.I. Joe team may be a bunch of landlubbers who wouldn't know a beam from a buoy, but they've got true fighting spirit that any sailor would respect."

Shipwreck has earned a reputation as being one of the more rambunctious members of the G.I. Joe Team. It's not that he is in any way disobedient or disrespectful of higher up officers. It's just that his arrogant, brash personality and stereotypical sailor attitude has gotten him in trouble so many times. He prefers to take up his own actions and fight the enemy in his own way. He also has a reputation for telling tall tales and for his poor culinary skills. It seems he is the only one who can stomach his own cooking. His superiors have had enough and shipped him to Navy S.E.A.L. School in the hopes the training there would make him a better man. It made him better alright... a better fighter only, with no change at all to his salty personality.

Shipwreck grew up just by the side of the sprawling San Diego Navy Yards. He enlisted at the youngest possible age with his parents' permission and then served with distinction in the Mekong Delta where he contended with river pirates, smugglers and insurgents. He also spent time at several naval bases and on carrier-initiated operations in the Middle East.

MUX History:
Shipwreck led a team of Joes assigned to erect the new transportable Air-Sea Base in the Gulf of Mexico when they were attacked by Cobra, who were seeking to trigger the geological faultine. The result was the creation of Cobra Island. He was subsequently part of the team that sought to drive Cobra off the island before sovereignty could be claimed, but the lawyers were too fast.

Shipwreck then participated in a mission to steal a Soviet laser from Afghanistan, preparing an ambush in neighbouring Pakistan.

Shipwreck later returned to the Gulf as part of a Joe team seeking to rescue Ripcord and Snake-Eyes from the island. Soon after he took part in the assault on Springfield. Back at the Pit he was part of a team unsuccessfully sent to recapture the escaping Zartan. Not long afterwards Hawk announced the grim news that the G.I. Joe team was being shut down and Shipwreck was temporarily quartered up in Fort Wadsworth.

Much later at the new Pit Shipwreck was one of the Joes tasked with cleaning the base for a snap inspection.[8]

OOC Notes
Steve Gerber summed his character up best: "Write him like Popeye, play him like Jack Nicholson." -- Interview with Buzz Dixon

2000

 * November 15 - "Diplomacy," Hawk and the Joes meet with Cobra Commander to try to secure President Clinton's release

Players

 * June 2009 - Present: zgilley