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Ace is the original fighter-jock jet driver of the G. I. Joe Team. Ace would rather fly than do anything else. During high school, he worked after school and weekends to pay for flying lessons. He spent one year flying pipelines in Alaska and two years stunt flying for movies before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force at 22. He joined the G. I. Joe team after serving in pilot combat training school as a senior instructor to the U.S.A.F.'s Fighter Weapons Squadron (known to most aviators as "The Aggressors"). Ace is a graduate of the Combined Services Escape and Evasion School.
He's an expert pilot qualified to fly an F-5E, F-16, XP-14/F, and the Ghoststriker X-16 jet. He can push a twin-engine, air superiority fighter to the red-line, performing daring aerobatic maneuvers that other pilots would consider impossible. To Ace, taking an open-harness, high-powered craft into the heart of Cobra-controlled territory is the ultimate challenge of his flying skills.
Ace has one major character flaw: cutthroat poker. A predilection for gambling would ordinarily disqualify an applicant for the G. I. Joe team but in Armbruster's case you can hardly call it gambling since he never loses. That's why his code name is Ace.
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