HEAD: Renegades Duke
BODY: ROC Sgt. Stone
NOD HELMET, BACKPACK, PISTOL: ROC Desert Ambush Duke
BELT & HOLSTER: ROC Elite Viper modded with an elastic strap from Snake Eyes v.54's web gear.
WEB GEAR: 25th Roadblock
RIFLE: POC Zartan
MP5: ROC Para-Viper

Code Name: Duke
File Name: Hauser, Conrad S.
Primary Military Specialty: Airborne Infantryman
Secondary Military Specialty: Small Arms Armorer
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Grade: E-8 (Master Sergeant)

GI JOE First Sergeant Conrad "Duke" Hauser is the senior non-commissioned officer on the GI JOE team. While not the highest ranking member of the team, Duke's extensive operational experience and practical knowledge in the field of Special Warfare is virtually unparalleled in the whole of the United States Military. In a unit where wisdom and capability often trumps official rank, Duke more often than not calls the shots in the field.

Duke's first deployment as a nineteen-year-old Army Ranger was Mogadishu, Somalia, where he participated in the Battle of the Black Sea, helping to secure Black Hawk Super Six-1 along with other Rangers and Delta Operators. While he lost a number of friends that day and experienced the horrors of war first hand, it was the professionalism, bravery and bonds of brotherhood exhibited by his fellow soldiers that had the biggest impact on him. With the guidance of a Delta Force Operator nicknamed Strider, he made it through the night with only a deep cut on his face, and vowed to follow in Strider's footsteps.

After returning to the States, he attended Special Forces School and spent several years in the Green Berets, serving in a number of classified operations in the Balkans, Central America and Asia before being selected for Delta.

Duke was not a founding member of GI JOE, having joined at a point when several of the surviving original thirteen members rotated out and the team was being expanded. He has been an integral part of the team ever since, however, mentoring new members, guiding their professional development and leading them in the field.

To the Operators working with him, Duke can seem like a practically super heroic older brother one minute, and then a pragmatic task master the next - a contrast of compassion and cold, hard-hearted reality. He sees to it that the men and women on his team are constantly training and improving their skill sets in order to increase their chances of survivability against seemingly impossible odds because he knows from personal experience that as elite soldiers, they all may be asked to pay the ultimate price.