In 1993, he was made a member of the Mega Marines, and given special Bio-Armor, a breakthrough in bio-mechanical armament. After joining the Joes in 1993, Mirage led a three-man Greenshirt team in the town of New Moon, Colorado, a suspected Cobra front. When one of the Greenshirts, Julie Haun, was critically wounded, Thomas Stall began to panic. Mirage instructed the recruit to provide cover while he tried to steal a vehicle, but Stall broke cover and drew the attention of their pursuers, leading to the death of his third teammate, Curtis Letson. As they ran for extraction, Mirage angrily told Stall to keep his head in the game, and that they could worry about what went wrong later.