Military

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“It's National Guard, fool! Weekend soldiers! Ain't no match for Grove Street OG's!”

— Ryder

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The United States Armed Forces, referred to simply as the Military, are a group of armed forces appearing in the 3D Universe.

Description[]

After the player gains a six-star wanted level in any game set in the 3D Universe, the Army will begin to chase the player. On the ground, two military vehicles are used against the player: the Barracks OL, which is used for pursuit and roadblocks, and the Rhino tank for pursuit. The soldiers themselves are always armed with M16s. Because of the limited number of soldiers seen in roadblocks, they are not as lethal as the SWAT or the FBI, as only two spawn near every Barracks OL seen in the corresponding roadblock.

The military are apparently members of the United States National Guard. They operate a depot in Ocean Docks, Los Santos, where weaponry, vehicles, and ammunition are stored. In the mission Robbing Uncle Sam, Ryder and Carl manage to break through the gates and steal several crates of weapons.

The United States Navy makes a brief appearance in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where they occupy a naval base in San Fierro, and the United States Air Force itself makes an appearance in the mission N.O.E. A recruitment commercial for the military also appears on the radio in the game.

In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the National Guard are deployed to survey Fort Staunton after its destruction. If the player approaches any of them, they will immediately open fire. The military mount a temporary base in the area, as seen two years later, during the events of Grand Theft Auto Advance. The base was removed shortly before the construction of the Staunton Plaza in 2001, during the events of Grand Theft Auto III, which does not feature any military base in Liberty City.

Basic Behavior[]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories[]

Members of the military behave as a gang in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, despite not being an actual gang and will attack the player on sight, regardless if they are on military property or not, unless if the protagonist is wearing the Cop Outfit (or the Army Fatigues in GTA Vice City Stories).

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Hydras will appear in the air if the player obtains a four-star wanted level and is flying an aircraft or the Vortex hovercraft, and will try to shoot them down. Despite being a military vehicle, they will always spawn without a pedestrian piloting them. The only time the military personnel can pilot these vehicles is in the mission Vertical Bird.

Known Military Personnel[]

Certain characters are stated to be either affiliated with a military force or have been in one in the past. Some even have been in notable real-life events, such as the Vietnam War.

United States Armed Forces[]

Mills - General, Area 69
Fitzgibbon - Army Colonel, retired
Henry Bolt † - 66th Cavalry Colonel, Fort Carson, died during the rescuing mission in 1842 along with his whole force in accident near Las Barrancas
Fuhrberger - Colonel, Vietnam War veteran, retired
James P. - Colonel, Australian-American War veteran, if was Army at all
Beverly McFadden - Commanding Officer, Fort Baxter Air Base
Michael Klebitz - Captain, serving in the Middle East
Kyle P. Slater - First Lieutenant
Jerry Martinez † - Army Sergeant, Fort Baxter Air Base, killed committing military crimes
Peppah - Army Sergeant, Fort Baxter Air Base
Dud Clark - Army Sergeant
Victor Vance † - Army Corporal, Fort Baxter Air Base, dishonorably discharged
Scott Wilson † - Army Corporal, deceased
Cam O'Flarge - Army Private, Fort Baxter Air Base
Parts - Army Private, Fort Baxter Air Base
Places - Army Private, Fort Baxter Air Base
Mitch Baker - Vietnam war veteran, awarded the Purple Heart for burning down Vietnam village
Clinton - Vietnam War veteran
Bobbie Ray - Vietnam War veteran
Ray Machowski - Vietnam War veteran
Phil Cassidy - military service unknown due to contradictory reports

Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure[]

Pierre La Ponce † - Secret Service Agent

Other Military[]

Juan Garcia Cortez - Colonel in unnamed Latin America country

Equipment[]

Uniforms[]

the military has been dressed in either traditional green fatigues or BDUs featuring the U.S. Woodland camouflage pattern.

In GTA III, they are shown as wearing simply an olive drab jumpsuit with a matching PASGT helmet, a M69 flak jacket, and an IIFS LBV II load-bearing vest.
Troops stationed at Fort Baxter Air Base in GTA Vice City wear the M81 BDU uniforms and patrol caps that were standard-issue during the late 1980s, with what appears to be an ALICE utility belt with no pouches.
The same seems to carry over into GTA San Andreas, though the utility belt appears to have been replaced with a load-bearing vest resembling the TLBV. Soldiers now don black gloves as well.
In GTA Liberty City Stories, the uniform is now a hybrid of the looks seen in GTA III and GTA Vice City; soldiers wear BDUs with a utility belt and a PASGT helmet. Interestingly, the texture of the M81 camouflage makes it slightly appear like Flecktarn, a similar woodland camouflage from Germany. The gloves seen in GTA San Andreas also return, now in an olive drab colour.
In GTA Vice City Stories, there are two sets of uniform observed here.
- The first uniform can be seen on soldiers patrolling Fort Baxter Air Base, which are plain BDUs. African-American soldiers wear matching patrol caps, while Caucasian soldiers wear dark-colored berets with a gold badge.
- A second uniform, likely a surplus one, also exists for GTA Vice City Stories that can be seen in a cutscene for the missions Soldier and Conduct Unbecoming, as well as used by National Guard soldiers sent after the player during a six-star wanted level. This more combat-style outfit uses Vietnam-era OG-107 fatigues with an ALICE harness and an M1 helmet.
- The uniform worn by Corporal Victor Vance, however, is very different from those worn by regular soldiers; who instead wears an untucked tan T-shirt with standard trousers, no patrol cap, and unbloused boots.

Vehicles[]

Grand Theft Auto III[]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]