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GI JOE OPERATOR

Ettienne Robert LaFitte was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. His father, Charles LaFitte, was a hardware store owner and part-time amateur boxer. His mother, Christine LaFitte, was a homemaker. After Ettienne graduated from high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Upon completing recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, he went on to the Marine Rifleman Course at the School of Infantry at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Afterwards, Ettienne was assigned to a rifle platoon in 1st Battalion 5th Marines.

He eventually became a fire team leader. Soon after, Ettienne attended the Basic Reconnaissance Course and was subsequently assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. Shortly afterwards, he attended the Marine Corps Combatant Diver Course and then the Basic Airborne Course at the U.S. Army Airborne School. Ettienne eventually rose to the position of a reconnaissance team leader. Sometime later, he went through Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. Soon after, Ettienne was assigned to a force reconnaissance platoon. After being promoted to Gunnery Sergeant, he became the platoon sergeant.

A little while later, Ettienne's exemplary work during maritime interdiction and counter-piracy assault operations while attached to a Marine Expeditionary Unit caught the attention of an official with the Joint Special Operations Command, Brigadier General Lawrence J. Flagg. After reviewing Ettienne's records, Flagg believed he would be perfect for a newly-established and highly unconventional anti-terrorist special operations group. In short order, Ettienne was offered a position in an elite military black ops organization called the Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Group, or "GI Joe".

Commanded by Brigadier General Flagg, GI Joe is an ultra top-secret elite military black ops organization directed to attack terrorist threats where they originate. The Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Group functions as a high-tech mobile tactical operations unit with the capability to covertly move from country to country anywhere in the world to unilaterally neutralize terrorist activities in locations too politically-sensitive to intervene through conventional means. All of its work is unofficial and "off the books." That allows its personnel to operate independent of the U.S. national security apparatus and therefore disregard various laws and international treaties.

It draws its personnel from all branches of the U.S. military. Along with intelligence analysts and technical support staff, GI Joe is composed of five Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Teams, or "GI Joe Teams": GI Joe Team Alpha, GI Joe Team Bravo, GI Joe Team Charlie, GI Joe Team Delta, and GI Joe Team Echo. The missions tasked to the GI Joe Teams are deniable covert and clandestine operations that would be completely disavowed by the U.S. government if ever made public. They include targeted killings, false-flag actions, enforced disappearances, clandestine insertion and extraction of operatives, and providing secret military assistance to foreign governments in their counterterrorism efforts.

Ettienne accepted the offer and joined the Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Group. He was then assigned to GI Joe Team Alpha as a reconnaissance specialist. Although official records simply state that Ettienne is assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command, the details of the job are not mentioned. In his capacity as a GI Joe operative, he engages in both covert military direct action and special reconnaissance operations, as well as unilateral espionage operations in which he assumes a false identity and goes deep undercover in order to identify targeted terrorists, track them to a specific location and capture or kill them as necessary.

A clear-thinking and reliable Force Recon Marine, he brings strategic clout to the Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Group. As a premier GI Joe operative, Gunnery Sergeant Ettienne LaFitte has helped save the United States from devastating terrorist attacks on numerous occasions.