***CONRAD "DUKE" HAUSER***Specialty: Field Cammander
Preferred M2X1 Suppressive Fire
Weapon: Heavy Machine Gun with Grenade Launcher
Strong, Determined, Loyal; A Natural Leader.
While General Hawk is generally the commander of the GI Joe counter-terrorist team, the man codenamed Duke is the field leader, the guy who most often gets it done at the sharp end. He may actually be outranked by a lot of the men he commands, but he’s still unquestionably the guy in charge.Duke holds the official rank of master sergeant in the Army – he considers it a point of pride that he’s never been promoted into the officers’ ranks. In his opinion, more often than not an officer is the type that claims credit when things go right and dodges the blame whenever things go wrong. Duke’s willing to shoulder the load no matter what happens, although with him in charge missions typically go pretty smoothly.
In a couple of different versions of the GI Joe continuity, Duke is romantically linked with Scarlett, one of the other members of the team (although, more often, she and Snake Eyes are a couple). GI Joe: The Movie and later stories also introduced his younger half-brother, the not-quite-as-reliable Lieutenant Falcon.
In the 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra live-action Movie, Duke is played by Channing Tatum. There, he’s a young special-operations veteran tapped to lead GI Joe in the field. This particular Duke, aside from having served with some of the other members of the squad, also has some history with the masked rogue operative now known as Cobra Commander.
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