SALVO
Anti-Armour Trooper
Filename: Hasle, David K.
S/N: 524-7110-AR42
Primary Military Speciality: Anti-Armour Trooper
Secondary Military Speciality: TOW/Dragon Repair Technician
Birthplace: Arlington, Virginia
Grade: E-7
SALVO has a deep distrust for high-tech weapons systems with laser range-finders, targeting computers, and micro-circuit, heat-seeking detonation components. Such complexity makes them inherently unreliable, especially in chaotic battlefield conditions where dependability is the name of the game. Salvo prefers to carry great quantities of conventional weaponry to overwhelm enemy forces with massive expenditures of sheer firepower rather than battle them with sophisticated electronic hardware.
"Salvo doesn't believe in wasting perfectly good ammunition on wooden targets on firing ranges. Instead, he'd rather test his anti-armour projectiles on actual enemy tanks and armoured personnel carriers, such as the Cobra H.I.S.S II. Nothing aggravates Salvo more than to go out on patrol and not find any Cobra targets to blow away. That would mean he'd have to lug all his unused ordnance back to GI Joe headquarters, and he doesn't enjoy that at all".