During the Vietnam War Ramon Escobedo was one of a six member Long Range Recon Patrol (L.R.R.P.), led by the future Stalker and also containing the future Snake-Eyes, the future Storm Shadow, Dickie Saperstein and Wade Collins. One day Ramon received a letter from his mother, telling him that his younger brother had just graduated from basic training and was about to enter the infantry. Ramon's tour of duty was due to end in three months and he wanted to go home "more than anything else in the world". But his younger brother would be eligible to serve in Vietnam. So Ramon extended his tour of duty to exploit the rule against two members of the same family serving in the same war zone to keep his brother away. Two weeks later the L.R.R.P. was ambushed in a valley and Ramon and Dickie were k