Duke (Comic, 6)

FIRST SERGEANT

Code Name: DUKE
FILE NAME: Hauser, Conrad S.
SN: 234-55-0189
PRIMARY MILITARY SPECIALTY: Infantry
SECONDARY MILITARY SPECIALTY: Intelligence
BIRTHPLACE: St. Louis, Missouri
Grade: E-8

DUKE is fluent in several languages and graduated top of his class at Airborne School, Fort Benning. Calm and determined, he commands by winning respect. He turned down a battlefield commission because it would distance him from his troops — and from the center of the action. As the G.I. JOE® team’s field commander, DUKE demands only top-notch performances from everyone, but it’s nothing he doesn’t also require of himself. He met his equal in RED STAR of the OKTOBER GUARD, respecting the Russian soldier even as he fought to defeat him whenever they crossed paths.

Nobody owes me any respect. I have to earn it. Just the way everybody else has to earn mine.”