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| Full Name | Hector Xavier Delgado |
| Place of Birth | Chula Vista, California |
| Affiliation | United States Navy |
| Rank | Chief Petty Officer |
| Qualified Expert | M-16; M-4; Browning .50-caliber; 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; M-1911A1 auto pistol |
| Rating | Gunner's Mate |
Hector Xavier Delgado was born and raised in Chula Vista, California. A bit of a loner who never knew his true family (he was adopted), he grew up in the shadow of the sprawling Naval Base San Diego. Seeing service as an opportunity to get away from an impoverished and directionless childhood, Delgado enlisted in the United States Navy right out of high school at the age of seventeen with his parents' legal permission.
After attending recruit training and then Gunner's Mate "A" School, he was assigned as a gunner's mate to the Weapons Department aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Roosevelt. Delgado was later accepted into the Navy SEAL training program. After completion of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, he went on to the U.S Army Airborne School. Upon completion of airborne training, Delgado attended SEAL Qualification Training and then SEAL Delivery Vehicle School. He was then assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1.
After his tour with SDVT-1, Delgado was assigned to SEAL Team 5. Having honed his field skills as a Navy SEAL during multiple combat deployments, he eventually entered the Naval Special Warfare Development Group selection and training program. Upon its successful completion, Delgado was assigned to DEVGRU as a SEAL operator in Gold Squadron. As a member of SEAL Team 6, he consistently showed himself to be an experienced professional with exceptional field discipline and eventually rose to the position of a platoon leading petty officer.
Delgado received numerous commendations and at some point, his exemplary work during pre-emptive counterterrorism missions caught the attention of a high-ranking officer in the United States Special Operations Command, Brigadier General Lawrence J. Flagg. After reviewing his records, Brigadier General Flagg believed Delgado would be perfect for a newly-established and highly unconventional anti-terrorist initiative within the U.S. Special Operations Command. In short order, he was offered a position in an elite military black ops organization called the Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Team, or the GI Joe Team.
Commanded by Colonel Clayton Abernathy, the GI Joe Team is a top-secret special mission unit mandated to investigate, identify, and dismantle emerging paramilitary terrorist syndicates that pose an imminent threat to U.S. national security. Directed to attack terrorist threats where they originate, it functions as a high-tech mobile tactical intelligence and assault group 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. The GI Joe Team draws its personnel from all branches of the U.S. military.
The primary target of the GI Joe Team is Cobra Command, an international militaristic criminal syndicate that has embedded itself in the power structures of various third world countries. Their sole mission: creating chaos and anarchy, and gaining power through terrorism and extortion, and not stopping until the governments of the world have toppled, and Cobra reigns supreme. Its leader, known only as Cobra Commander, has convinced like-minded individuals to join him on his endeavor, rallying around him not only an army, but a formidable cabinet of powerful personalities to help govern the growing organization.
Delgado accepted the offer and was promoted to Chief Petty Officer. He then joined the Global Intervention Joint Operations Expeditionary Team. With the codename "Shipwreck", Delgado serves as one of the GI Joe Team's lead field operatives. In that capacity, he takes part in covert military direct action and special reconnaissance operations. Delgado also engages in 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 naval special warfare operator, he brings strategic clout to the GI Joe Team. As a premier counterterrorism operative, Chief Gunner's Mate Hector X. Delgado has helped save the United States from devastating terrorist attacks on numerous occasions.
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- A version of this character appears in the GI Joe franchise.