Operation: Flanks for nothing.
Dr. Rich enters Hawk's office with a folder. "Here's all the case files from the last few days, General."
"Thank you; you not done kicking yourself for not figuring this out yet?" Hawk asks him while going through them.
Psychiatric reports of G.I. Joe operatives.
Case 1. Ace.
Ace came in to my office at 0936 hours about a bad dream involving a flight of a P-51. Having made a strafing run on a German armor brigade, the engine suddenly seized up, after which time the propeller blades began transforming into snakes and burst through his canopy.
I made the recommendation for leave time.
Patient called the next day stating said treatment proved ineffective.
Case 4. Airtight.
Reported a dream about the Cobra "funhouse" raid where he was forced to incapacitate fellow operative Dusty. Unlike the real outcome, the hallucinogenic cloud moves and effects him, causing him to see snakes emerge from Dusty's pockets which lunge at him.
Awaiting call from Walter Reed mental health department for records on battle fatigue episodes from previous decades.
Case 10. Cross-Country.
This patient reported that after opening the bag with the stolen items; General Hawk, his squad, and the three Cobra agents he (Cross-Country) just chased off each are standing there with angry expressions and begin raising their weapons at him.*
Case 26. Bazooka.
This patient's nightmare was situated in his family home. Bazooka and his wife, one Taeko Katzenbogen, were placing his step-son into a crib. As with some of the previous patients, he then states that the overhead mobile strings turn into snakes, immobilizing him before killing his family members.
The need for any relief grows with all the pounding on my door from every ungrateful pain in the...from every patient on the base so far.
"It's not that i overlooked it, sir. I simply attributed the snakes as being the visualized frustration over how long this conflict has been going on. Being overworked by all of them coming in at once didn't help, either." Dr. Rich tells Hawk as he leans back and looks up absentmindedly, only to hear the blades of the ceiling fan start hissing.
The Dr. wakes up with a yelp, finding himself safe at his desk at 0210 hours, and pokes at his phone before using it. "General...yes, i know what time it is, but whatever we're being affected by, i have it too, now."
Chapter twenty-four.
* Skipped the last episode of season 2 so it doesn't contradict the 1987 animated film.