Head: 25th Airborne
Torso, arms: Retaliation Kwinn
Upper legs: PoC Steel Brigade
Lower legs: Retaliation Firefly
Harness: Marauder
Helmet: BBI Elite

American Defense was a line of 3 3/4'' military toys sold exclusively at Kmart in the eighties. The line started with Galoob's A-Team molds and Remco grew it from there. It was later produced by different companies and ended up in dollar stores and discount outlets. Similar to GI Joe, it included a wide variety of colorful characters. However, without a cartoon, comic or any marketing to back it up, the line rode GI Joe's coattails for a while and then disappeared.

To my knowledge, it was never available in Canada. I became aware of the line after reading references to it online a few years ago. Information and good pictures of the figures have only recently become easier to find, so I put this project on my to-do list. I'm hoping to make more characters over time.

Defender (AD-1) is the American Defense equivalent of Grunt, my favorite GI Joe character. As such, he was instantly on my list of customs.