- "Yeah, that's the smell of America."
- ―Ponytail[src]
Ponytail was a U.S. Army Soldier who served with John Kreese and Terry Silver in Vietnam.
Biography
Cobra Kai
Season 3
Ponytail served in the US Army alongside John Kreese and Terry Silver in 1968 and 1969. He snatched a photo of Kreese's girlfriend Betsy and teased him over the photograph, with Silver joining in. Later, the trio is given a special mission alongside another group of soldiers. The mission was led by Captain Turner.
On the mission, Ponytail planted explosives on a VietCong base while Kreese, Silver and other soldiers kept watch behind a bush. Kreese was tasked with initating the explosives once they were set. However, when Silver's radio erupted, the captain told Kreese to blow the charges and allow them to escape, however Ponytail was still inside and would die along with the detonation, causing Kreese to hesitate and not blow the explosives. Ponytail tried to flee the scene, but was knocked to the ground by a Vietnamese soldier, while Kreese and the others in the bush were taken capture.
The group was taken captive and placed in a large cage, where a Vietnamese soldier pointed a gun at Ponytail. His final word to Kreese was "Johnny" before he was executed by the soldier. This horrifed Kreese and Silver, while Turner blamed Kreese for his death.
Even years after his death, Kreese continues to remember his fallen friend, as a photgraph of Kreese, Ponytail, and Silver is kept in his office.