Scarlett

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**Scarlett** is a member of G.I. Joe. She held the rank of colonel.

## Biography

### Intelligence Work

While undercover in Bosnia, O'Hara was gathering human intelligence trying to find information on a massacre. During the operation. her cover was blown while in a market and she was attacked by three armed men. O'Hara fought the three of them off, and the incident made her more determined in her mission when she thought about what would have happened to her if they had managed to capture her.

### Early Service With G.I. Joe

Around 2006, Scarlett was recruited into the G.I. Joe team as the unit's intelligence expert. As part of her induction, she was paired with Duke to conduct a training exercise that doubled as a real mission. Scarlett and Duke were briefed by General Hawk in a C-130 over the desert and were given codewords: "Buick" and "N.L.V.C.H." respectively. As part of the exercise, Stalker threw two parachutes out of the plane, forcing Scarlett and Duke to jump out of the plane to catch the parachutes. The pair streamlined and caught up to the packs, landing in the desert. Policing their chutes, Scarlett determined that they were in Nevada, north of Las Vegas.

Scarlett and Duke hitch a ride from Connie, an injured veteran who helps them solve their codewords. "N.L.V.C.H." stands for North Las Vegas Community Hospital and "Buick" stands for Burn Unit Intensive Care, bed K." Arriving at the hospital, they find the bed occupied by an Airborne Ranger with extensive facial injuries and surmise they are there to recruit him to G.I. Joe. After seeing a report of a billionaire massacring federal agents in Dallas, the Ranger communicates to Scarlett and Duke to get him out of the hospital.

Connie volunteers to stay behind, hooked up to the Ranger's monitors so Scarlett and Duke can sneak him out of the hospital. As they approach Connie's van, the ward explodes and they are chased by the perpetrator of the attack who is after the Ranger. The trio manage to escape in the van; as Scarlett drives, Duke officially recruits the Ranger—whom was called "Snake Eyes" by their attacker—into G.I. Joe.

Scarlett oversaw a doctor's visit to Snake Eyes at the Las Vegas Motel, then escorted him back to Nellis Air Force Base to take a C-130 back to Andrews Air Force Base. Along with Duke, Scarlett left Snake Eyes at the motel later to contact Hawk on a secure link. Upon returning, she noticed that the lock to the motel room had been jimmied; finding no one inside apart from Snake Eyes, Scarlett was aware something had transpired in the room but had no idea what it was.

In Las Vegas, Scarlett met with new G.I. Joe members Heavy Duty, Breaker, and Rock N' Roll in the Las Vegas Motel. The team was being moved from "provisional" to "operational" due to Chimera's actions, and the Joe team was being deployed to a secret military installation in north-western Nevada where the terrorist was seemingly heading. The team, lead by Duke, deployed from a C-130 out of Nellis Air Force Base, parachuting into the desert six kilometers from the target location. Crossing the desert to the installation, they found tracks leading into an underground facility. Scarlett found a single shoe by the entrance, indicating that Chimera had taken a female hostage. Communications with Hawk was cut off, leading Duke to make the decision to infiltrate the facility using an aboveground entrance.

### Pit Invasion

Stationed at The Pit in the Think Tank, Scarlett oversaw multiple G.I. Joe operations, including the recovery of a mysterious cargo from the wreck of the *Badeaux Strait* by Shipwreck's team, and working with Duke on uncovering information on who or what "Cobra" was. Three days later, she received a package from Snake Eyes containing material evidence in the attempted assassination of Nico Mandirobilis. Scarlett also authorized Dusty's team to open the cargo recovered from the *Badeaux Strait* under strict level five isolation protocols.

Scarlett used the evidence Snake Eyes sent to deploy Stalker's team to Manila in the Philippines in pursuit of Mandirobilis, and handed off the physical items to Lab Rat for study. Lab Rat reported that the ceramic gun had no metal in it, and was breaking down at the molecular level as if it had been disassembled and reassembled at the atomic level. The dust also had all the constituent materials that made up the human body in the same ratios.

After learning that Scarlett had sent Stalker's unit to Manila, Duke confronted her believing that it should have been assigned to his team given the initial lead was recovered from their mission in Istanbul. Duke also believed that the follow up information was given to her by Snake Eyes and warned her about working with the AWOL Joe.

When the spider-bots were activated and began assaulting The Pit, Scarlett comandeered a Bradley during the defense. She used the vehicle to crush one of the invaders, then used an Uzi at close range to finish it off. In doing so, she saved Brainstorm, Duke, and Beach Head. Brainstorm informed Scarlett that one of the bots was heading for The Silo and they needed to intercept it. En route, the team destroyed another spider-bot before meeting up with Dial Tone who was keeping an eye on the bot as it breached The Pit's servers. Beach Head severed the connection between the bot and the servers, but the unit escaped into the ventilation system.

## Appearances

* *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
* *G.I. Joe #1* (First appearance)
* *G.I. Joe #2*
* *G.I. Joe #3*
* *G.I. Joe #4*
* *G.I. Joe #5*
* *G.I. Joe #6*
* *Rom #1: Earthfall: Prelude*
* *Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude*
* *Rom #1: Earthfall, Part One*
* *Revolution #1: Chapter One: Concorde Hymn*
* *M.A.S.K.: Revolution #1*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *G.I. Joe #1*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
4. ↑ *Revolutionaries #1* dates the formation of G.I. Joe to 2006.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *G.I. Joe #2*
7. ↑ *G.I. Joe #3*