Orphaned at the age of three by a drunken driver, Hit & Run grew up in a county institution from which he escaped with alarming regularity, climbing down sheer walls and running for miles across the plains in the middle of the night. When asked what he was running away from, he replied, "I'm not running away from anything. I'm practicing." He went from the custody of the county, directly into the Army...
"Infantrymen don't march. They run. They run to get to the battle, the run during the battle, and they run to get away from the battle. The Army doesn't call it running. They call the first one 'advancing', the second 'maneuvering', and the last, 'disengaging'. Hit & Run calls it all running, and he's real good at it."
Hit & Run is a G.I. Joe team operative in the A Real American Hero line. First released as a Hasbro carded action figure in 1988, with 1 distinct figure version produced across the 1982 to 1994 vintage run.
Hit & Run did not appear by name in the Sunbow or DiC cartoon series synopses. Original Hasbro file-card lore and Marvel ARAH comics appearances are the primary characterization sources.