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1983

• January, Nicaragua: Due to his reporting knowledge of a "weird operation" in Columbia to their covert contact Antioch, The Covenant of the Sword arranged for U.S. Army and Special Services Cpl. Jake "Dutch" Holland to test an exo-armor prototype against Sandinistas. Such an accomplished soldier wouldn't normally be assigned a "meat grinder maneuver," where he was maimed; losing his left arm to another EXO program device test, the Aztech robot. His psychological profile rightly predicted his obsessive paranoiac tendencies would cause him to blame the military for his misfortune, eventually leading him to later desert them for Cybernet. [Youngblood Strikefile #8, 12/1994]
• Nicaragua: Chapel led a team of mercenaries to assassinate Colonel Black. Entire party died, aside from Jeff Jackson and Chapel, the latter of whom killed the demonically possessed Colonel. [Chapel #1-2, 03-05/1995]