

While he loses his right eye during the mission, Snake is ultimately successful in completing his mission and is awarded the title of Big Boss by President Lyndon Johnson.

During the course of this mission, he teams up with an alleged KGB spy named EVA and fights against the members of the Cobra unit. Afterwards, he is sent on a follow-up mission codenamed "Operation: Snake Eater", where he is sent back to Tselinoyarsk to prevent the completion of Shagohod and assassinate both The Boss and colonel Volgin (her apparent benefactor). Sokolov, during the Virtuous Mission, but fails his mission after he is seemingly betrayed by The Boss and Sokolov's design lab (OKB-754) is destroyed by a nuclear missile. He is initially sent to Tselinoyarsk to retrieve defecting Russian scientist, Dr. He was a former apprentice of The Boss and helped create his hand-to-hand combat style ( CQC ) with her. He is given his codename at the beginning of the Virtuous Mission, but he is referred to simply as Snake for convenience. He is initially referred as Jack by Major Zero and The Boss, but occasionally also introduces himself as " John Doe " or just John (to Para-Medic and Major Ocelot respectively). Naked Snake is an operative for the FOX unit, a newly formed special forces branch of the CIA.
