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Mock the Medal of Honor box art and this man may kill you

by David Hinkle on Dec 3rd 2009 5:00PM

It seems the cover star for EA reboot Medal of Honor bears quite a resemblance to a real-life military man -- and not the fictional lumberjack uncle we like to think resides in every Canadian family. Life did a feature on the armed forces in Afghanistan back in 2002, and one of the individuals (codenamed "Cowboy") highlighted in several photos (via UGO) seems to match the one highlighted on the FPS cover.

EA did mention working closely with "Tier 1 Operators from the US Special Operations Community," so it seems possible that the main character could be inspired by (if not actually based on) Mr. Cowboy. We've contacted EA to get some intel on this. We'll let you know, if we haven't been taken out for yesterday's ZZ Top joke.

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Tags: afghanistan, cowboy, ea, ea-la, Electronic-Arts, fps, medal-of-honor, Medal-of-Honor-2010, Microsoft, Xbox-360

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I love Joystiq drama

2 things:

1. WHO THE FUCK IS APPLEBANANA?

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQschA2lC_Y

STOP MOCKING HIM!!

Whoa, reading this made my skin crawl.

Imagine if you were this "cowboy," and some company wanted to make a game that allows other people to kill the same way you do.

I know every war game has you doing something similar, but I don't think I've ever thought of it being so personal as this.

I look at this mans glorious dirty santa beard, and then down at my own five o'clock shadow, and I get a little bit jealous. One day...one day...

A good buddy of mine has a beard that doesn't connect at his temple. So he's got like, a full head of hair, and a beard... and a void between the two. So weird.

"Bluurble......Gurrble........Brainnns."

beards are important in afghan culture, our special forces interact with the locals much more than regular soldiers and many have beards because they claim the locals trust them more

He has the beard of an SAS man.

or a dwarven warrior.

i made an account just so i could say how annoying both of you are

I'm assuming me?

I'm sorry that my posts are being distracting right now. But it's pretty frustrating to be attacked over stupid stuff like this.

Also this (toy) guy looks the same. Check out the other pictures on the page.

http://hottoys.com.hk/index.php?target=products&product_id=337

Hey how do i sign up on joystick?

You just did.

It's the "Stiq"

good one

Don't call it 'The Stiq'

I made that mistake once. SpyderTaco reamed me a new one over it.

Speaking of which, where is that old con?

Welcome to the Jungle, leave your pants at the door.

In the new Medal of Honor game your rank is based on the size of your beard.

All commanders are dwarves.

After reading through over two pages of comments, it would seem all that came of this post was a discussion of combat-beard relevance and blog-posting douchebaggery. I could have done without the douchbaggery, but beards are awesome.

On a completely different note, I look forward to hearing more about this game.

this guy has nothing on FIGHTING JACK CHURCHILL!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

maybe someone already posted it but this guy in the picture was KIA, go ahead and read his story...

http://fortignorance.blogspot.com/2009/10/us-army-special-forces.html

He's dead? O_O

That's unfortunate if true.

And it seemed he was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

aw now youre making everyone feel uncomfortable

Life says "Cowboy" and the blog says "Iceman".

Either way, the blog made that soldier even more badass then his beard was.

that would make an awesome final level, one worth crying over.

yes, some game endings make me cry, so what.

Calling BS on that story, there is no listing for an "Erik Westmoreland" at the Congressional Medal of Honor Society (cmohs.org). The only two recipients to date for service in Afghanistan were Lt. Michael P. Murphy (Navy SEAL; "Lone Survivor" recounts the events) and Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti (10th Mountain Division, U.S. Army).

It is NOT to my knowledge practice to award medals in secret; two ACTUAL Tier Ones received the Medal posthumously but publicly.

Is he suppose to be the good guy or the terrorist XD

Modern of Honor? H-E-double hockey sticks, yeah!

not bad at all ... I laughed when I saw the beard and the goggles ...

this guy loooks more simila:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/spiegel/478-1.jpg

"Someone tell me why he is allowed to have a full grown beard in the military..it's a disgrace"

It's common practice for members of special forces (SEALs, Rangers, etc) to try to fit into the local populace as much as possible. As the game takes place in Afghanistan it obviously makes sense for members to grow a beard as all the native men in afghanistan do. Take a look at this SEAL team from operation Red Wing a few years ago: http://www.navy.mil/moh/mpmurphy/images/image005.jpg

FYI, All the men in that picture, save the third guy from the right, were KIA.

I read through most of the comments and didn't see anyone post this so:

http://gamesblog.ugo.com/games/meet-the-real-life-hero-behind-medal-of-honor-in-afghanistan

I apologize for being too incompetent to remember how to make it a link.

Apparently I don't have to. Yay technology.

Thats a hardcore beard

Actually my dad did have that exact same look when he was young ! Now, he's nothing like that, thanks to Mom ! xD

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