A to Z Challenge Day 20: Tunnel Rat vs Torch

"Tunnel Rats" were mostly associated with the Vietnam War.  The North Vietnamese or sympathizers would often have networks of tunnels and a soldier referred to as a tunnel rat would have to crawl in with a flashlight, knife, and explosives to destroy the tunnel.  The long-running Harry Bosch series's titular character was a tunnel rat in the war.

So unlike many other GI JOEs, Tunnel Rat is actually based on a real thing.  And I suppose COBRA might dig tunnels from time to time that would require a tunnel rat to destroy them.

Tunnel Rat was one of the characters who appeared in the animated movie.  He crawls in a water pipe to defeat a training exercise and later shows the Joes how to navigate some obstacles in the Himalyas to reach Cobra-la's base.  He didn't really appear in the DIC cartoon series or the live action movies either.  But I'm sure he was in the comics at least a few times.  So that's something.

The Dreadnoks are the henchmen of Zartan.  They're supposed to be punks from Australia or some damned thing.  They aren't very bright, because good help is hard to find.  The first three were Buzzer, Ripper, and Torch.

Torch had a brown beard and a flamethrower, which is what differentiated him from the other two.  Otherwise they were pretty much inseparable.  And later they added Monkeywrench and Thrasher, followed by Road Pig to their numbers.  The Dreadnoks appeared in the Sunbow series fairly often, but not really in the DIC series.  They also appeared in the comics a few times.  Though Zartan was in the live action movies, his Dreadnoks weren't.  Such a shame.