The Dude’s High 5s: Supersoldier Squad
Happy belated Veteran’s day everyone. Its one of my favorite holidays. Even the most liberal of douchebags shut up and let the Military have their day. The armed forces have been great to my family and friends (and freedom) over the years. I’ve often said that I don’t have the right stuff to serve. I’m too much of an independent thinker and I don’t like absolute authority being lorded over me. However, if I did have to serve, this is the squad of folks I’d want around me.
5. Todd (Soldier)
For those of you who haven’t seen Soldier (Read As: Most of you), its a fun little movie. Todd is pretty similar to Master Chief of Halo fame. Except of course for the giant green suit and the surgical modifications. In the movie, a new batch of recruits renders Todd obsolete. He’s left for dead on a garbage world that has a small population and becomes their only line of defense.
4. Captain Virgil Hilts (The Great Escape)
The Great Escape is the best movie ever. Steve McQueen is coolest dude to ever walk the planet. He’s a no brainer. If we ever need anyone to drive, he’s the man for the job. I wanted to keep real people off this list as to not trivialize their actual accomplishments. However, this character is a composite of a few people that actually existed rather than a real person. Otherwise this list would just be full of the people from Band of Brothers.
3. Royce (Predators)
Predators was a much better sequel to Predator than Predator 2 or either of the AvP movies. The biggest surprise of the movie was how awesome Adrian Brody was in it. Going against type he plays a very experienced soldier, and proves to be a match for an alien killing machine.
2. Captain John Price (Modern Warfare)
I know there are a few Prices in the CoD pantheon. I’m going with the CoD4-MW3 Price. The man has fought everywhere and everything. Experience like that would be welcomed
1. Solid Snake (Metal Gear)
On the battlefield, intelligence is everything. Of course I’m not talking about IQ numbers or SAT scores. I mean knowing where your enemy is, what they are doing, what their objectives are, and any other piece of information you could gather. This is where Snake would come into the squad. Reconnaissance. The first rule of fighting is don’t … but if you have to, you want to make sure you have all the information you can to get the upper hand. Fair fights are best left our of actual combat.
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Despite calling this one Supersoldier Squad, I wanted to leave out any sort of cyberneticly enhanced, or otherwise super powered individuals (Like Capitan America or any Space Marine from Warhammer) but I impose no such restrictions of you folks. If you answered the call of battle, what military personnel would you want at your side?