Before joining the Army,
Snow Job was a member of
the U.S. Olympic Biathalon team. He first enlisted for the privileges
and
special training his status as an Olympic champion gave him. But after
some time, Snow Job surprised every public relations officer by asking
to join the G.I. Joe team, and he was accepted! His first mission with
the team took place in Alaska. Snow Job and the rest of the team foiled
Cobra's attempts to poison the Alaskan Pipeline and steal plutonium. On
that mission, Rock & Roll found out that Snow Job got his nickname
for
being a con artist, not a skier. He tried to scam Rock & Roll out
of
some
money and made him look like a fool. It's not known if Rock & Roll
ever
got even.
Later on, Snow Job was one of the Joes involved
in
the capture of Cobra Commander. Unfortunately, the Commander escaped
with
the help of his bodyguard, Storm Shadow. Months later, Snow Job and
Torpedo
engaged in a battle with a Cobra base on a small island, piloting the
Joe
hovercraft. There, he and Torpedo beat the Cobras again and again,
leaving
their base in shambles. But what the two Joes didn't realize was that
the
Cobras had kept the secret that they had been ordered to protect. That
mission led to the creation of Cobra Island. Soon afterward, Snow Job
was
one of the many Joes to fight in a battle with Cobra in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Cobra Island was created when Cobra tricked the Joes into bombing a
faultline
that caused the land mass that would become Cobra Island to be thrust
up
out of the ocean depths. Snow Job was injured in the battle, but was
stationed
as a gunner on the Joes' landing craft. Their mission to push Cobra off
of the island before it became a sovereign nation failed. A few months
later, Snow Job was one of the Joes involved in the invasion of the
Cobra-controlled
town of Springfield. Snow Job was a part of many other missions
including
an operation to neutralize a cache of nerve-gas found in a
fifty-year-old
Nazi bomber trapped in a glacier.
A disastrous mission into Eastern
Europe led to
the
toughest five months of Snow Job's life. Along with Stalker, Quick Kick
and Outback, Snow Job travelled to the Soviet bloc country of Borovia.
The mission was top secret and they were told that the state department
would disavow all knowledge of their mission if they were captured. A
series
of events led the Joes to be captured, with only Outback escaping into
the sewers of Borovia. He had been ordered to get out of the country
and
ask for help. Stalker stayed behind since Snow Job and Quick Kick were
injured, and they were his responsibility. The government did in fact
disavow
all knowledge and the three Joes were thrown into a Borovian gulag for
five months. They were treated harshly and Snow Job was at one point
beaten
after another prisoner overheard him and Stalker planning an escape
attempt.
Snow Job may have died in that prison if not for an illegal rescue
mission
led by Snake-Eyes, Scarlett and Storm Shadow. When the Joes returned
home,
Outback felt guilty for leaving the others in Borovia. Quick Kick and
Snow
Job told Outback his job was to get out and tell everyone back home
what
had happened. "We couldn't walk," Snow Job told Outback. "What were you
going to do, carry us all across the border? You don't have a cape and
a pair of tights, do you? No, man...you did right!"
During the Cobra Island civil war,
Snow Job was
one
of the few Joes who were not part of the operation. When the members of
the team were unrightfully taken into custody, Snow Job and several
other
Joes went underground. They organized a mission to rescue Hawk and
General
Hollingsworth when they were arrested for acting without orders and
entering
the civil war. During the rescue, Hawk and Hollingsworth were cleared
of
all charges and the corrupt generals responsible were exposed. On a
following
mission into Alaska, Snow Job and a small group of Joes joined forces
with
the Soviets' October Guard to destroy a Cobra base in the middle of an
ice flow. During his time on the team, Snow Job also served
as a rifle instructor. Many of Snow Job's subsequent missions remain
classified,
but he stayed on the Joe team until it was disbanded in 1994.
After the
Joe team was reinstated in 2001, Snow Job helped stop Cobra agents
trying
to carry a nuclear weapon into the United States over the Canadian
border. Months
later, Snow Job headed into Tibet
as backup for a team investigating a hidden Red Ninja retreat where
Cobra
Commander and Storm Shadow had been hiding. A short time later, members
of the Joe team fought Cobra forces that were drawn into an attack on a
train guarded by the Joes, believing that Destro was being held
prisoner onboard. At the battle's end, Hawk was shot in the back by
Cobra Commander and paralyzed. In Hawk's absence, the Jugglers began to
take control of the team to reign it in, if not disband it altogether.
Eventually, the team's roster was cut down to only a dozen Joes, and
Snow Job was one of many reassigned to other units. After the remaining
Joes stopped a plot by Cobra to unleash the weapon known as the
Tempest, and defeated a new threat, the Red Shadows, the military again
disbanded the team. One year later, the Joe team was reformed with a
smaller roster of active members. Snow Job, like most former Joes, is a
reserve member of the new team. He was called back to duty to shut down
Cobra's illegal oil-drilling operation in the arctic
.