Rambo finally received his official military discharge on September 27, 1974. At some point in his military career he also received training in flying helicopters. Rambo's unit was decimated during the ordeal, but Delmar and Rambo managed to escape captivity in May 1972, and Rambo was immediately re-deployed at his own request. Delmar, Rambo, and some other surviving members were captured by North Vietnamese forces near the Chinese-Vietnamese border and held at a POW camp, where many other American POWs were imprisoned and repeatedly tortured. In an event that would haunt Rambo for the rest of his life, Danforth died in Rambo's arms after being fatally wounded by a rigged shoeshine box while their unit was on rest and recuperation time.ĭuring a mission in November 1971 Rambo's unit came under surprise attack by NVA forces. Other known members were Delmar Barry (a black operative who quickly became Rambo's best friend), Joseph "Joey" Danforth (another friend of Rambo), Manuel "Loco" Ortega, Paul Messner, Delbert Krackhauer, Giuseppe "Greasy Cunt" Colletta, and Ralph Jorgenson.
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Trautman's team received the code name of Baker Team and usually consisted of eight men. He became part of a Special Forces Long-range reconnaissance patrol unit commanded by Colonel Trautman. In late 1969, Rambo was re-deployed to Vietnam as a member of a SOG brigade. Army Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under Colonel Samuel Trautman's tutelage. Rambo was deployed to South Vietnam in September 1966. After he graduated from Rangeford High School in 1965, his military service began in January 1966. Army at the age of 17 on August 6, 1964, although he states in Rambo he was "drafted into Vietnam". John's niece is also well known, Shirlene.
In Rambo: First Blood Part II, he is said to be of Native American and German descent, while the film's novelization reveals he has an Italian father and a Navajo mother. He was born on July 6, 1947, in Bowie, Arizona, to father Reevis Rambo (1922–2000) and mother Helga Rambo (1926–1969), as shown on the graves at Rambo's farm in Rambo: Last Blood.
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In the animated TV series, the character is voiced by Neil Ross.Īccording to all the films, the character's full name is John James Rambo. In all five films, Rambo is portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. In the DVD commentary for First Blood Morell remarks that the inspiration for Rambo was World War II hero Audie Murphy. He is also an expert in guerrilla tactics, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat. Rambo is an expert in surviving in dense forests against a large number of enemies due to his experiences in the Vietnam War. He has a high amount of strength and stamina. Rambo has a muscular physique due to his time as a soldier in the army and his intense training regimen.
However, Colonel Samuel Trautman (who was his commanding officer in Vietnam and is probably his only friend) understands him and the pain and torture he has endured in the war and is the only one able to reason with him when he becomes an outlaw after incapacitating police officers in the town of Hope. Due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. In the next films and novelizations he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends and the people he cares about from any danger. He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. In the novel and first film, Rambo appears as a soldier who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to normal life. He was granted the first name "John" as a reference to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again". His name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned. Morrell felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work A Season in Hell, seemed to him "an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering". Today, many of his descendants can still be found in this region of the US.
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The name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget (a hill on the Hisingen island in Gothenburg, where Peter Gunnarsson was born) plus "bo" (meaning "resident of"). These apples, in turn, were named for Peter Gunnarsson Rambo who sailed from Sweden to America in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania.
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