Captain America - Part One - Entertainment

The impressively long history of the comic superhero Captain America began in December 1940, a full year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. "As the ruthless war-mongers of Europe focus their eyes on a peace-loving America..the youth of our country heed the call to arm for defense," came the bold declaration on the first page of Captain America Comics. One of those young men was Steve Rogers, a skinny artist full of the patriotic fever to join the armed forces, but who was too sickly and unfit to join.

Luckily for Steve, the American government had been working on a Super-Soldier Serum as one of their tools to combat the Nazis and their allies. "Little does he realize," Professor Reinstein (or Erskine, as he is later renamed) mused minutes after injecting Steve with the Super-Soldier Serum, "That the serum coursing through his blood is rapidly building his body and brain tissues, until his stature and intelligence increase to an amazing degree!..It is working! There's power surging through those growing musclesmillions of cells forming at incredible speed!"

The professor's enthusiastic ramblings translate to mean that Steve Rogers was indeed the prime human specimen. He represented a human at peak physical condition, in strength, stamina, intelligence, senses, and speed. His power levels have fluctuated over the years, sometimes boasting the ability to run a mile in a minute, but traditionally, he has had more in common with a really fit Batman than Superman.

Unfortunately for Professor Reinstein, he did not live long enough to see the incredible feats his serum would inspire. Reflecting a trend that would be present in many of the 1940s Captain America Comics, Nazi spies were afoot and in an effort to steal the Super-Soldier Serum for their own and stop the United States from producing any more Captain Americas, Professor Reinstein was killed. But before he died, he christened Steve Rogers with his new name, explaining, "We shall call you Captain Americabecause like you, America shall gain the strength and the will to safeguard our shores."

As with most superheroes, Captain America needed a secret identity of sorts. Shipped off to Camp Lehigh, Steve posed as the bumbling and clueless Private Rogers when he wasn't donning his trademark costume star-spangled costume and matching shield. While at Lehigh, Rogers met James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, a mascot of the camp. In the original story, Bucky walked in on Steve changing out of his Captain America costume. This secreted Bucky's sidekick status because "From now on we must both share this secret togetherthat means you're my partner, Bucky!" Of course, those were the innocent days before both Marvel and DC comics started killing off sidekicks left and right, and no further explanation was needed for why Captain America would want a sidekick. In the years since, Marvel's changed the Bucky origin story several times, in an attempt to make the teenager fighting at Steve's side look more plausible. Bucky went from being the Camp mascot to being a trained operative w ho executes covert assassinations that normal soldiers and Captain America could not do. The reasons for Steve taking him on as a sidekick have changed from being Steve's idea to Bucky blackmailing him into taking him on in exchange for keeping Steve's secret identity a secret. Once Bucky became the trained agent of the military, it was retconned that he was "given" to Captain America by the United States government.

Regardless of the exact reason or circumstances for why Bucky Barnes was a part of Captain America's life, together Cap and Bucky, either solo or as part of the superhero team the Invaders, fought against the Nazi and Japanese threats. Two of their major enemies during this time included the Red Skull and Baron Zemo, both of whom would continue to reoccur as villains during Cap's later career.

As World War II came to a close, sales of all comics plummeted. Even Captain America Comics, which had sold approximately 1 million copies a month at its high point, began to suffer sales wise. After some drastic changes, such as wounding Bucky, giving the role of sidekick to Cap's girlfriend Betsy Ross, and revamping Cap into a communist hunter, the Captain America comic was cancelled in 1954.

But cancellation, like death, is short lived in comics. Ten years later, Steve Rogers and Captain America were brought back in Avengers #4. In this new version of continuity, it was revealed that Steve Rogers and the original Bucky were lost shortly after the end of World War II (the post-World War II appearances of Cap and Bucky would later be explained away as different Caps and Buckys entirely.) When trying to stop a plane programmed by Baron Zemo, Bucky was apparently killed and Cap fell to the icy waters below, where he remained in a block of ice until the Avengers found him.

Steve's first thoughts were of his fallen partner, and Bucky's death and the guilt that Steve had over it continued to be one of two major themes in the Captain America tales that followed.

The pain over Bucky's death didn't stop Steve from acquiring new partners, of course. After becoming a member of the Avengers, Steve quickly stepped into leadership and training of the younger members, a sampling of whom would grow to include Hawkeye, Iron Man, and the Young Avengers. Heavy emphasis was often placed on Cap's fighting skills and he was often given credit for being the best hand to hand fighter in the Marvel universe.

In addition to his Avengers adventures, Captain America became an active part of planetary peacekeeping force S.H.I.E.L.D. and picked up two new fighting partners. The first, Rick Jones, even wore a Bucky costume for a while. The second, Sam Wilson was written as Captain America's partner, and less like the sidekick that both Rick Jones and Bucky were.

An American Traveling Abroad Encounters Risks - Travel - Travel Tips

When traveling Americans have born the brunt of jokes and insults. Have you heard the one about the ugly American? Its not very fair. Americans are an enthusiastic peoples, who want only the best for everyone. Currently an American Traveling abroad encounters risks as they journey. You do the math. There have been bombings in London, Madrid, Mumbai and various south East Asian destinations. Then there was the infamous day on September 11 2001. You must conclude that today terrorists are the problem. The State Department United states of america publishes regular consular information sheets also know and travel advisories.

Travel advisories exist for countries around the world such as Uzbekistan. Others include advisories for Kenya, Iran, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia together with Iraq. Although advisories go out for a generally peaceful country like Nepal there is a connection with a country such as Israel. Then there is an advisory for those who must travel to the West Bank and Gaza. Please note that just because a country isnt on the current warning list, you should still pay attention to news media and other reliable sources for signs of trouble.

High on the list of travel warnings are countries such as Somalia Zimbabwe, Liberia as well as Afghanistan and Nigeria. Consular information provides information for the world tourist traveling abroad in such diverse destinations as Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, and Cte d'Ivoire. There are continuous advisories publishes on countries associated with place on earth such as Libya, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Haiti.

The country of Haiti is marked since there has been protracted unrest. Uzbekistan seems to be a terrorist training base. At the present time, there are advisories to read if youre planning to travel to destination such as Thailand and Myanmar. These two countries are to be avoided indefinitely. Likewise travelers are urged to avoid such nations as Central African Republic and Congo-Kinshasa. There are lengthily warnings about destinations as Pakistan and Yemen. Indonesia, The Philippines, Columbia and Lebanon are high the advisory list as well. Colombia is listed since an ongoing degree of violence with strong ties to the drug cartels.

Today if you are an American Traveling abroad with an American passport you are bound to be a target for terrorist activity. As far as the United States is concerned with several of the countries listed should be of no surprise. The news media is filled with difficulties around the globe. In all cases, the United States.

Government warns traveling Americans to avoid most if not all these courtiers since citizens may find themselves caught in the middle of an armed conflict. To find out current travel information, please visit the United States State Department's site for international travel at a web address called travel.state.gov.

An American Traveling Abroad Encounters Risks - Travel - Travel Tips

When traveling Americans have born the brunt of jokes and insults. Have you heard the one about the ugly American? Its not very fair. Americans are an enthusiastic peoples, who want only the best for everyone. Currently an American Traveling abroad encounters risks as they journey. You do the math. There have been bombings in London, Madrid, Mumbai and various south East Asian destinations. Then there was the infamous day on September 11 2001. You must conclude that today terrorists are the problem. The State Department United states of america publishes regular consular information sheets also know and travel advisories.

Travel advisories exist for countries around the world such as Uzbekistan. Others include advisories for Kenya, Iran, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia together with Iraq. Although advisories go out for a generally peaceful country like Nepal there is a connection with a country such as Israel. Then there is an advisory for those who must travel to the West Bank and Gaza. Please note that just because a country isnt on the current warning list, you should still pay attention to news media and other reliable sources for signs of trouble.

High on the list of travel warnings are countries such as Somalia Zimbabwe, Liberia as well as Afghanistan and Nigeria. Consular information provides information for the world tourist traveling abroad in such diverse destinations as Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, and Cte d'Ivoire. There are continuous advisories publishes on countries associated with place on earth such as Libya, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Haiti.

The country of Haiti is marked since there has been protracted unrest. Uzbekistan seems to be a terrorist training base. At the present time, there are advisories to read if youre planning to travel to destination such as Thailand and Myanmar. These two countries are to be avoided indefinitely. Likewise travelers are urged to avoid such nations as Central African Republic and Congo-Kinshasa. There are lengthily warnings about destinations as Pakistan and Yemen. Indonesia, The Philippines, Columbia and Lebanon are high the advisory list as well. Colombia is listed since an ongoing degree of violence with strong ties to the drug cartels.

Today if you are an American Traveling abroad with an American passport you are bound to be a target for terrorist activity. As far as the United States is concerned with several of the countries listed should be of no surprise. The news media is filled with difficulties around the globe. In all cases, the United States.

Government warns traveling Americans to avoid most if not all these courtiers since citizens may find themselves caught in the middle of an armed conflict. To find out current travel information, please visit the United States State Department's site for international travel at a web address called travel.state.gov.

Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe - Law

A kidney fetches $2700 in Turkey. According to last month's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, this is a high price. An Indian or Iraqi kidney enriches its former owner by a mere $1000. Wealthy clients later pay for the rare organ up to $150,000.CBS News aired, two years ago, a documentary, filmed by Antenna 3 of Spain, in which undercover reporters in Mexico were asked, by a priest acting as a middleman for a doctor, to pay close to 1 million dollars for a single kidney. An auction of a human kidney on eBay in February 2000 drew a bid of $100,000 before the company put a stop to it. Another auction in September 1999 drew $5.7 million - though, probably, merely as a prank.Organ harvesting operations flourish in Turkey, in central Europe, mainly in the Czech Republic, and in the Caucasus, mainly in Georgia. They operate on Turkish, Moldovan, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Romanian, Bosnian, Kosovar, Macedonian, Albanian and assorted east European don ors.They remove kidneys, lungs, pieces of liver, even corneas, bones, tendons, heart valves, skin and other sellable human bits. The organs are kept in cold storage and air lifted to illegal distribution centers in the United States, Germany, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Israel, South Africa, and other rich, industrialized locales. It gives "brain drain" a new, spine chilling, meaning.Organ trafficking has become an international trade. It involves Indian, Thai, Philippine, Brazilian, Turkish and Israeli doctors who scour the Balkan and other destitute regions for tissues. The Washington Post reported last week that in a single village in Moldova, 14 out of 40 men were reduced by penury to selling body parts.Last year, Moldova cut off the thriving baby adoption trade due to an - an unfounded - fear the toddlers were being dissected for spare organs. According to the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, the Romanians are investigating similar allegations in Israel and have withheld p ermission to adopt Romanian babies from dozens of eager and out of pocket couples. American authorities are scrutinizing a two year old Moldovan harvesting operation based in the United States.Organ theft and trading in Ukraine is a smooth operation. According to news agencies, last August three Ukrainian doctors were charged in Lvov with trafficking in the organs of victims of road accidents. The doctors used helicopters to ferry kidneys and livers to colluding hospitals. They charged up to $19,000 per organ.The West Australian daily surveyed in January the thriving organs business in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sellers are offering their wares openly, through newspaper ads. Prices reach up to $68,000. Compared to an average monthly wage of less than $200, this is an unimaginable fortune.National health insurance schemes turn a blind eye. Israel's participates in the costs of purchasing organs abroad, though only subject to rigorous vetting of the sources of the donation. Still, a May 2001 article in a the New York Times Magazine, quotes "the coordinator of kidney transplantation at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem (as saying that) 60 of the 244 patients currently receiving post-transplant care purchased their new kidney from a stranger - just short of 25 percent of the patients at one of Israel's largest medical centers participating in the organ business".Many Israelis - attempting to avoid scrutiny - travel to east Europe, accompanied by Israeli doctors, to perform the transplantation surgery. These junkets are euphemistically known as "transplant tourism". Clinics have sprouted all over the benighted region. Israeli doctors have recently visited impoverished Macedonia, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Yugoslavia to discuss with local businessmen and doctors the setting up of kidney transplant clinics.Such open involvement in what can be charitably described as a latter day slave trade gives rise to a new wave of thinly disguised anti-Semitism. The Uk rainian Echo, quoting the Ukrinform news agency, reported, on January 7, that, implausibly, a Ukrainian guest worker died in Tel-Aviv in mysterious circumstances and his heart was removed. The Interpol, according to the paper, is investigating this lurid affair.According to scholars, reports of organ thefts and related abductions, mainly of children, have been rife in Poland and Russia at least since 1991. The buyers are supposed to be rich Arabs.Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley and co-founder of Organs Watch, a research and documentation center, is also a member and co-author of the Bellagio Task Force Report on Transplantation, Bodily Integrity and the International Traffic in Organs. In a report presented in June 2001 to the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, she substantiated at least the nationality of the alleged buyers, though not the urban legends regarding organ theft:"In the Middle Eas t residents of the Gulf States (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman) have for many years traveled to India, the Philippines, and to Eastern Europe to purchase kidneys made scarce locally due to local fundamentalist Islamic teachings that allow organ transplantation (to save a life), but prohibit organ harvesting from brain-dead bodies.Meanwhile, hundreds of kidney patients from Israel, which has its own well -developed, but under-used transplantation centers (due to ultra-orthodox Jewish reservations about brain death) travel in 'transplant tourist' junkets to Turkey, Moldova, Romania where desperate kidney sellers can be found, and to Russia where an excess of lucrative cadaveric organs are produced due to lax standards for designating brain death, and to South Africa where the amenities in transplantation clinics in private hospitals can resemble four star hotels.We found in many countries - from Brazil and Argentina to India, Russia, Romania, Turkey to South Africa and parts o f the United States - a kind of 'apartheid medicine' that divides the world into two distinctly different populations of 'organs supplies' and 'organs receivers'."Russia, together with Estonia, China and Iraq, is, indeed, a major harvesting and trading centre. International news agencies described, two years ago, how a grandmother in Ryazan tried to sell her grandchild to a mediator. The boy was to be smuggled to the West and there dismembered for his organs. The uncle, who assisted in the matter, was supposed to collect $70,000 - a fortune in Russian terms.When confronted by the European Union on this issue, Russia responded that it lacks the resources required to monitor organ donations. The Italian magazine, Happy Web, reports that organ trading has taken to the Internet. A simple query on the Google search engine yields thousands of Web sites purporting to sell various body parts - mostly kidneys - for up to $125,000. The sellers are Russian, Moldovan, Ukrainian and Roma nian.Scheper-Hughes, an avid opponent of legalizing any form of trade in organs, says that "in general, the movement and flow of living donor organs - mostly kidneys - is from South to North, from poor to rich, from black and brown to white, and from female to male bodies".Yet, this summer, bowing to reality, the American Medical Association commissioned a study to examine the effects of paying for cadaveric organs would have on the current shortage. The 1984 National Organ Transplant Act that forbids such payments is also under attack. Bills to amend it were submitted recently by several Congressmen. These are steps in the right direction.Organ trafficking is the outcome of the international ban on organ sales and live donor organs. But wherever there is demand there is a market. Excruciating poverty of potential donors, lengthening patient waiting lists and the better quality of organs harvested from live people make organ sales an irresistible proposition. The medical pro fessions and authorities everywhere would do better to legalize and regulate the trade rather than transform it into a form of organized crime. The denizens of Moldova would surely appreciate it.

An American Traveling Abroad Encounters Risks - Travel - Travel Tips

When traveling Americans have born the brunt of jokes and insults. Have you heard the one about the ugly American? Its not very fair. Americans are an enthusiastic peoples, who want only the best for everyone. Currently an American Traveling abroad encounters risks as they journey. You do the math. There have been bombings in London, Madrid, Mumbai and various south East Asian destinations. Then there was the infamous day on September 11 2001. You must conclude that today terrorists are the problem. The State Department United states of america publishes regular consular information sheets also know and travel advisories.

Travel advisories exist for countries around the world such as Uzbekistan. Others include advisories for Kenya, Iran, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia together with Iraq. Although advisories go out for a generally peaceful country like Nepal there is a connection with a country such as Israel. Then there is an advisory for those who must travel to the West Bank and Gaza. Please note that just because a country isnt on the current warning list, you should still pay attention to news media and other reliable sources for signs of trouble.

High on the list of travel warnings are countries such as Somalia Zimbabwe, Liberia as well as Afghanistan and Nigeria. Consular information provides information for the world tourist traveling abroad in such diverse destinations as Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, and Cte d'Ivoire. There are continuous advisories publishes on countries associated with place on earth such as Libya, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Haiti.

The country of Haiti is marked since there has been protracted unrest. Uzbekistan seems to be a terrorist training base. At the present time, there are advisories to read if youre planning to travel to destination such as Thailand and Myanmar. These two countries are to be avoided indefinitely. Likewise travelers are urged to avoid such nations as Central African Republic and Congo-Kinshasa. There are lengthily warnings about destinations as Pakistan and Yemen. Indonesia, The Philippines, Columbia and Lebanon are high the advisory list as well. Colombia is listed since an ongoing degree of violence with strong ties to the drug cartels.

Today if you are an American Traveling abroad with an American passport you are bound to be a target for terrorist activity. As far as the United States is concerned with several of the countries listed should be of no surprise. The news media is filled with difficulties around the globe. In all cases, the United States.

Government warns traveling Americans to avoid most if not all these courtiers since citizens may find themselves caught in the middle of an armed conflict. To find out current travel information, please visit the United States State Department's site for international travel at a web address called travel.state.gov.

An American Traveling Abroad Encounters Risks - Travel - Travel Tips

When traveling Americans have born the brunt of jokes and insults. Have you heard the one about the ugly American? Its not very fair. Americans are an enthusiastic peoples, who want only the best for everyone. Currently an American Traveling abroad encounters risks as they journey. You do the math. There have been bombings in London, Madrid, Mumbai and various south East Asian destinations. Then there was the infamous day on September 11 2001. You must conclude that today terrorists are the problem. The State Department United states of america publishes regular consular information sheets also know and travel advisories.

Travel advisories exist for countries around the world such as Uzbekistan. Others include advisories for Kenya, Iran, the Sudan, and Saudi Arabia together with Iraq. Although advisories go out for a generally peaceful country like Nepal there is a connection with a country such as Israel. Then there is an advisory for those who must travel to the West Bank and Gaza. Please note that just because a country isnt on the current warning list, you should still pay attention to news media and other reliable sources for signs of trouble.

High on the list of travel warnings are countries such as Somalia Zimbabwe, Liberia as well as Afghanistan and Nigeria. Consular information provides information for the world tourist traveling abroad in such diverse destinations as Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, and Cte d'Ivoire. There are continuous advisories publishes on countries associated with place on earth such as Libya, Burundi, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Haiti.

The country of Haiti is marked since there has been protracted unrest. Uzbekistan seems to be a terrorist training base. At the present time, there are advisories to read if youre planning to travel to destination such as Thailand and Myanmar. These two countries are to be avoided indefinitely. Likewise travelers are urged to avoid such nations as Central African Republic and Congo-Kinshasa. There are lengthily warnings about destinations as Pakistan and Yemen. Indonesia, The Philippines, Columbia and Lebanon are high the advisory list as well. Colombia is listed since an ongoing degree of violence with strong ties to the drug cartels.

Today if you are an American Traveling abroad with an American passport you are bound to be a target for terrorist activity. As far as the United States is concerned with several of the countries listed should be of no surprise. The news media is filled with difficulties around the globe. In all cases, the United States.

Government warns traveling Americans to avoid most if not all these courtiers since citizens may find themselves caught in the middle of an armed conflict. To find out current travel information, please visit the United States State Department's site for international travel at a web address called travel.state.gov.

Captain America - Part One - Entertainment

The impressively long history of the comic superhero Captain America began in December 1940, a full year before the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II. "As the ruthless war-mongers of Europe focus their eyes on a peace-loving America..the youth of our country heed the call to arm for defense," came the bold declaration on the first page of Captain America Comics. One of those young men was Steve Rogers, a skinny artist full of the patriotic fever to join the armed forces, but who was too sickly and unfit to join.

Luckily for Steve, the American government had been working on a Super-Soldier Serum as one of their tools to combat the Nazis and their allies. "Little does he realize," Professor Reinstein (or Erskine, as he is later renamed) mused minutes after injecting Steve with the Super-Soldier Serum, "That the serum coursing through his blood is rapidly building his body and brain tissues, until his stature and intelligence increase to an amazing degree!..It is working! There's power surging through those growing musclesmillions of cells forming at incredible speed!"

The professor's enthusiastic ramblings translate to mean that Steve Rogers was indeed the prime human specimen. He represented a human at peak physical condition, in strength, stamina, intelligence, senses, and speed. His power levels have fluctuated over the years, sometimes boasting the ability to run a mile in a minute, but traditionally, he has had more in common with a really fit Batman than Superman.

Unfortunately for Professor Reinstein, he did not live long enough to see the incredible feats his serum would inspire. Reflecting a trend that would be present in many of the 1940s Captain America Comics, Nazi spies were afoot and in an effort to steal the Super-Soldier Serum for their own and stop the United States from producing any more Captain Americas, Professor Reinstein was killed. But before he died, he christened Steve Rogers with his new name, explaining, "We shall call you Captain Americabecause like you, America shall gain the strength and the will to safeguard our shores."

As with most superheroes, Captain America needed a secret identity of sorts. Shipped off to Camp Lehigh, Steve posed as the bumbling and clueless Private Rogers when he wasn't donning his trademark costume star-spangled costume and matching shield. While at Lehigh, Rogers met James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, a mascot of the camp. In the original story, Bucky walked in on Steve changing out of his Captain America costume. This secreted Bucky's sidekick status because "From now on we must both share this secret togetherthat means you're my partner, Bucky!" Of course, those were the innocent days before both Marvel and DC comics started killing off sidekicks left and right, and no further explanation was needed for why Captain America would want a sidekick. In the years since, Marvel's changed the Bucky origin story several times, in an attempt to make the teenager fighting at Steve's side look more plausible. Bucky went from being the Camp mascot to being a trained operative w ho executes covert assassinations that normal soldiers and Captain America could not do. The reasons for Steve taking him on as a sidekick have changed from being Steve's idea to Bucky blackmailing him into taking him on in exchange for keeping Steve's secret identity a secret. Once Bucky became the trained agent of the military, it was retconned that he was "given" to Captain America by the United States government.

Regardless of the exact reason or circumstances for why Bucky Barnes was a part of Captain America's life, together Cap and Bucky, either solo or as part of the superhero team the Invaders, fought against the Nazi and Japanese threats. Two of their major enemies during this time included the Red Skull and Baron Zemo, both of whom would continue to reoccur as villains during Cap's later career.

As World War II came to a close, sales of all comics plummeted. Even Captain America Comics, which had sold approximately 1 million copies a month at its high point, began to suffer sales wise. After some drastic changes, such as wounding Bucky, giving the role of sidekick to Cap's girlfriend Betsy Ross, and revamping Cap into a communist hunter, the Captain America comic was cancelled in 1954.

But cancellation, like death, is short lived in comics. Ten years later, Steve Rogers and Captain America were brought back in Avengers #4. In this new version of continuity, it was revealed that Steve Rogers and the original Bucky were lost shortly after the end of World War II (the post-World War II appearances of Cap and Bucky would later be explained away as different Caps and Buckys entirely.) When trying to stop a plane programmed by Baron Zemo, Bucky was apparently killed and Cap fell to the icy waters below, where he remained in a block of ice until the Avengers found him.

Steve's first thoughts were of his fallen partner, and Bucky's death and the guilt that Steve had over it continued to be one of two major themes in the Captain America tales that followed.

The pain over Bucky's death didn't stop Steve from acquiring new partners, of course. After becoming a member of the Avengers, Steve quickly stepped into leadership and training of the younger members, a sampling of whom would grow to include Hawkeye, Iron Man, and the Young Avengers. Heavy emphasis was often placed on Cap's fighting skills and he was often given credit for being the best hand to hand fighter in the Marvel universe.

In addition to his Avengers adventures, Captain America became an active part of planetary peacekeeping force S.H.I.E.L.D. and picked up two new fighting partners. The first, Rick Jones, even wore a Bucky costume for a while. The second, Sam Wilson was written as Captain America's partner, and less like the sidekick that both Rick Jones and Bucky were.