Stuck in Korea

Fool 

I've been thinking a lot about the A-Team recently and come to the conclusion that Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus is an idiot. Hear me out...

As we all know, he's afraid of flying. So how the hell did he get to Vietnam in the first place? I don't think there were any troop ships, so either he swam or they drugged him. Also remember that he was part of a crack commando unit, which I assume did lots of special forces stuff behind enemy lines and all that. You notice that everyone got transported around by helicopter?

"I ain't flyin' on no chopper, fool!"

Right there, refusal to obey orders. And they say he didn't commit a crime. Of course there could have been the drugging option just before take-off...

"I told you I ain't flyin...milk? Yeah, I like milk. I drink milk."

But this way you're going to have a very groggy soldier on your hands - a bloody liability to a crack commando unit deep in the jungles of Vietnam. You would have thought after the first 20 or 30 times he'd catch on. Or develop a fear of milk rather than flying. A quick note - the unit consisted of Colonel Smith, Lieutenant Peck, Captain Murdock and Sergeant Baracus. Does anyone else think the command structure here is a tad top heavy? Also they never killed anyone when they worked as soldiers of fortune, so what do you think their kill count was in South-East Asia? I'm beginning to understand how America lost the Vietnam War.

Either way B.A. couldn't have been a very good soldier. Or Face for that matter. Can you picture that smarmy lounge lizard fighting in Vietnam? Yeah, right. And Hannibal reached retirement age during World War 2. Which leaves Murdock, who's a nutter. This is your crack commando unit then. The cream of the U.S. military.

Anyhow, back to B.A. and his brainlessness. How many bloody times did he fall for the drugged sandwich/milk thing? The fact that the next mission is in Columbia and the team have all stopped for a picnic at an airstrip would be a pretty good indicator that something's rotten in Denmark. But no. Plus he still considers them his friends! All the druggings and abductions in Vietnam and America and he still trusts them.

B.A.'s a fool. We should all pity him.