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Tripwire joined the army at age 19, and claims to have received spiritual awakening on the grenade range.

He is proficient with all NATO and Warsaw Pact explosives, detonators, ignition initiators and blasting machines.

He has had a green/grey uniform (1983, 2001, and 2008), a red/orange (1985, packaged with a "Listen n Fun" audio tape),[3] and a brown/yellow/black Tiger Force style (1988).

[7] Tripwire, Mutt and Torpedo are assigned to investigate Cobra activity in the Florida Everglades.

They encounter most of the Cobra high command and temporarily capture Firefly and Wild Weasel.

[8] In issue 28, Tripwire attempts to save the lives of other Joes by throwing himself on top of a makeshift bomb.

After that threat is defeated, all available Joes take part in an aborted raid on the newly formed Cobra Island.

[11] Later, he saves a Joe assault team by defusing bombs moments before Tomax and Xamot would have set them off.

[12] Tripwire is used as a source of comic relief, playing-off the juxtaposition of his extreme clumsiness and his role as the Joe team's EOD expert.

[13] In the 2003 Frontline miniseries, Tripwire works with Flash, Beach Head and Airtight to prevent a militia led by Tyler Wingfield from launching a bioterrorist attack, but they wind up coming into conflict with Joe undercover specialist Chuckles, who had come in contact with the group while posing as a Cobra agent.

In a flashback, Skoog steps on a land mine and is eventually rescued by Duke who pushes him off the landmine taking the brunt of the explosion.