Hawk

## [Source]

**Hawk** is the commander of the G.I. Joe team.

## Biography

### Forming G.I. Joe

Around 2006, Hawk met with a United States Army soldier called Conrad Hauser, who was recovering from injuries sustained during an ambush on his convoy in Trucial. Hawk offered Hauser a choice: in or out? He would offer no further details when pressed, except to say that officially, Hauser would be listed as killed in action. When Hauser accepted, Hawk told him his old name no longer existed, and from that moment on, he was Duke.

Some time later, Hawk assembled some of the first recruits to G.I. Joe in a C-130 to conduct a training exercise that doubled as a real mission. Duke and Scarlett were given a codeword each by Hawk—"N.L.V.C.H." and "Buick" respectively—and then they were forced to jump out of the plane to catch up to parachutes that had already been thrown out by fellow Joe, Stalker. Stalker believed that the tactic was risky, but Hawk pointed out that there was no recycle in the G.I. Joe program. As Stalker deployed out of the C-130, Hawk informed him that the parachute he was wearing did not work, and that the testing phase of the mission included him. Hawk then threw a third parachute out of the plane for Stalker.

Following Duke, Scarlett, and Snake Eyes' run-in with Chimera, Hawk briefed Duke about the individual aboard a C-130 on the tarmac at Nellis Air Force Base. Hawk was leaving to oversee another operation for a new team member, and told Duke he would be in touch by secure satellite link. As Duke left, Hawk informed the C-130 pilot he would be deplaning at a classified location when the plane made the journey back to Andrews Air Force Base.

Later, near the Nevada/Utah border, Hawk briefed Heavy Duty on a group of outlaw tax resistors who had taken over a bank. Their operations were to secure money to buy MREs, bottled water, and ammunition, and Hawk wanted to know where they were stockpiling their supplies. Heavy Duty stormed the bank and subdued three of the tax resistors, with a fourth fleeing in a vehicle. Hawk and Heavy Duty gave chase, heaving for the desert in Nevada. The pair continued to tail the tax resistor until satellites took over the pursuit and they pulled back, allowing the resistor to believe he had lost his tail. The satellite tracked the resistor to an abandoned military installation in the north-western Nevada desert.

Hawk assembled the fledging G.I. Joe team in the Las Vegas Motel; Duke, Scarlett, Stalker, Snake Eyes, Breaker, Heavy Duty, and Rock N' Roll. 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. Hawk monitored the mission until all communications were cut off; Hawk went to the motel manager, Bob Light, hoping to use his email but the phone lines to the motel were out as well. Hawk and Bob left the motel, driving as far as they needed to try and find a working telephone.

### Clandestine Operations

Hawk's operation with Chuckles began to bear fruit when the operative reported in that he had been approached by an unknown organization with impressive counter-intelligence capabilities. Hawk ordered Chuckles to go radio silent until extraction, and ordered Jinx to meet him in ten hours with final orders and codes.

### Pit Invasion

Following the Istanbul operation, Hawk met with Duke in the Think Tank and informed him that mention of "Cobra" had spiked. He assigned Duke to work with Scarlett to determine who or what "Cobra" was. After Dusty's team analyzed a mysterious cargo brought up from the wreck of the freighter *Badeaux Strait*, they requested permission to open it. Hawk informed him that it was a security issue, and therefore Scarlett's call. Several days later, Hawk oversaw a successful test firing of the Broadcast Energy Teleporter at Brainstorm's request.

During the invasion of The Pit by spider-bots, Hawk was pinned down with support personnel in the command center. He marshalled the personnel under his command and ordered them to retreat, covering the repositioning effort with an M60 machinegun.

## Appearances

* *G.I. Joe #0*: "In Or Out?" (First appearance)
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
* *G.I. Joe #0*: "Deep Cover"
* *G.I. Joe #1*
* *G.I. Joe #2*
* *G.I. Joe #3*
* *G.I. Joe #4*
* *G.I. Joe #5*
* *G.I. Joe #6*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *G.I. Joe #0*: "In Or Out?"
2. ↑ *Revolutionaries #1* dates the formation of G.I. Joe to 2006.
3. ↑ *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
6. ↑ *G.I. Joe #0*: "Deep Cover"
7. ↑ *G.I. Joe #1*
8. ↑ *G.I. Joe #2*
9. ↑ *G.I. Joe #3*