COUNTDOWN. The code name used by U.S. Air Force Captain David D. Dubosky. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Countdown is a NASA astronaut and electronics engineer, as well as a ranking chess master. Countdown occasionally served with the G.I. Joe team onboard the space shuttle Defiant. He took part in the mission that launched a Joe vehicle into orbit, then dropped it into Trucial Abysmia on a rescue mission to save the group of Joes who survived an attack by Cobra in which a SAW Viper killed several others. Countdown, like most former Joes, is currently a reserve member of the team. He was assigned to domestic operations in the United States during the conflict known as World War III.One of many Joes listed on the World War III member assignment map first seen in AE #28.
(GI 109, 110; Figures: 1, 2, 3)