Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-40594-20130610230333

82.74.13.1 wrote: Liquid's story, so far it's know, depicts him as having been send to the UK as a young boy, there he spend most his childhood and was one of the youngest to join SAS, part of the Brittish Airforce. Also his time in the UK is evident to the accent of his voice. He was about 18 when he participated in the first Gulf War which resulted into his capture in Iraq, and where his hair became blond.

It wouldn't be the first time Kojima retconned a character's past for the prequel.