Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6747658-20130401084750/@comment-72.45.58.157-20130408062911

Guys, bear with me here, but I don't think the XOF Commander is burned at all. His ears and nose are more or less intact, which doesn't make sense for severe burn scars as they'd be the first tissues to be destroyed. You can see this in photos of real life facial burn victims, their ears and nose are almost always melted off. Now, this is hearsay, but a friend of mine has a background in forensics, and he says that if anything, the XOF commander looks like an improperly preserved corpse that's been rotting for a while.

Considering how batshit Kojima can get, plus what the guy above me said about Kojima implying him to be 100 years old, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the XOF commander is someone Big Boss killed at some point who was brought back after they were dead for an extended period.