AVAC

MobileBattleBunker · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:51 pm

What does it stand for?

Simple question sorry for being uninformed.

Matthew · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:52 pm

MobileBattleBunker wrote:

What does it stand for?

Simple question sorry for being uninformed.

Air Viper Advanced Corps

MobileBattleBunker · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:04 pm

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I thought it stood for Air-Viper Aeronautics Corps... 8-O

MaroonTyphoon · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

GITrekker wrote:

I thought it stood for Air-Viper Aeronautics Corps... 8-O

I've always heard "advanced corps", plus "air viper aeronautics corps" is kind of redundant....

pluv · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:38 pm

Matthew wrote:

MobileBattleBunker wrote:

What does it stand for?

Simple question sorry for being uninformed.

Air Viper Advanced Corps

It is Advanced Class. At least that is what MC used on the Air Viper parachute figure's file card. http://www.thejoeindex.com/joeindex/usf ... airviper1/

Mysterious Stranger · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:07 pm

A Very Awful Codename? What's his real name? Yum Kleener?

Patrick A. Riley · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:37 pm

According to Mark Bellomo and his book: Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994 the name stands for Air Viper: Air Corps

Quote:

And about A.V.A.C., on Larry's prototype dossier for A.V.A.C., he had written "Air Viper-Air Corps". I don't think I stated this in the book, though...

-- MWB

I still prefer Advanced Class ;-)

GITrekker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I have to admit, "Advanced Class" or "Advanced Corps" does sound less redundant, and makes sense from the standpoint of one would need to be rather advanced to fly that one-man rocket plane called the Firebat.

Always bugged me a bit that there was never an actual Air-Viper, until we got the recolored Vapor from the Club a few years back.

Straight Edge · **Joined:** Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:54 pm

I always considered the Viper Glider Pilot to be the standard Air-Viper, from the early days of Cobra. IE, Cobra pilots looked like Cobra Troopers, but wore the silver sigil of an officer, since only better trained, higher ranked soldiers would qualify for the Cobra Army Air Corps.

Also the fact that after 1986, calling a Viper Pilot "Viper" is cofusing and redundant, but calling him an Air-Viper (Glider Pilot) hits all the bases.

I have 18 in my 25th collection, to pilot my six Trubble Bubbles, Fangs, and Claws.

AVACs, as the Advanced Corps, make perfect sense piloting a vehicle much more complicated than those three.

Stalker · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Straight Edge wrote:

I always considered the Viper Glider Pilot to be the standard Air-Viper, from the early days of Cobra. IE, Cobra pilots looked like Cobra Troopers, but wore the silver sigil of an officer, since only better trained, higher ranked soldiers would qualify for the Cobra Army Air Corps.

Ditto.

HypnoHustler · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:16 pm

That's what I'm calling my 25th Jetpack troopers. The rebreather helmet, combined with a silver logo body (I swapped the legs and webgear from all my silver logo Troopers onto the Air Trooper red logo bodies) makes for a perfect Air-Viper in my mind.

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