Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1918136-20131020014707/@comment-1672596-20131020123344

Bluerock wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: The OP was probably referring to the Raymond Benson novel, but what I was actually referring to was the secret tape in Peace Walker (which made it pretty clear even if not explicitly stated that Cipher planned to train Solid Snake and Liquid Snake as part of their insurance plan against Big Boss). Not necessarily trained from early childhood though. And the "insurance" may also have been to simply secure a Big Boss clone for themselves if they couldn't have the real deal, not just to have the clone specifically take him out.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: The quote/exchange made it a bit clear that Gray Fox had at the very least been introduced to the battlefield since a very early age. Your original message seemed to indicate that Gray Fox had implied that Snake was a child soldier, so I misunderstood. Well, yeah, namely because the guy asked if they saw direct combat. I was trying to say that Gray Fox implied that Solid Snake most likely never saw direct combat even if he were a child soldier.