Ocelot Unit
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The Ocelot Unit (山猫部隊 Yamaneko Butai?) are an elite group of soldiers who work in the Spetsnaz squadrons of the GRU and answer directly to Major Ocelot. They have a distinct style and attitude about them. When Ocelot makes a specific cat noise, they arrive and assume their positions. Ocelot Unit members are featured as enemies in Snake Eater, and as playable soldiers in both Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. The leading player on the Ocelot Unit squadron will have the ability to play as Ocelot himself in the following round. There are also female Ocelot Unit members, as shown in MPO, but it is unknown whether they are canon soldiers or not.
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[edit] Virtuous Mission
Naked Snake first encounters the Ocelot Unit at Rassvet after rendezvousing with Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov during the Virtuous Mission. Ocelot's gun, at the time a Makarov PMM, jams unexpectedly, giving Snake an opening to tranquilize the Ocelot Unit and CQC slam Ocelot. He then escapes with Sokolov, but is quickly recaptured by The Boss and Colonel Volgin.
[edit] Operation Snake Eater
Upon returning to Rassvet and meeting up with EVA, he awakens to the sounds of the approaching Ocelot Unit, once again. They storm the shed that he and EVA are in, but despite a heavy arsenal of shotguns, sniper rifles and Stun Grenades, Snake evades capture and tranquilizes them yet again. He is confronted by Ocelot, who now has EVA held hostage by knifepoint, but he is taken by surprise when he discovers that EVA is actually a woman. His true shock, however, comes when Snake berates Ocelot for the engraved revolver he is using. Snake then proceeds to call Ocelot's bluff about the gun by making himself a target. When Ocelot tries to shoot Snake, however, he finds that the gun has ran out of bullets, with Snake commenting that it is merely a collector's item and is not meant to be used. This allows EVA to escape on her motorcycle.
The Ocelot Unit again accosts Snake upon his arrival at the Bolshaya Past Crevice. However, due to Ocelot's orders, they remain in the forest, blocking off Snake's only path of exit and forcing him to a gun duel with Ocelot. If Ocelot had become endangered at any time during the battle, the Ocelot Unit were able to fire at Snake with ease from their vantage point. Towards the end of the battle, Ocelot and Snake were discovered by The Pain, who sent swarms of his hornets to attack the two, and the Ocelot Unit were caught in the crossfire. At least two Ocelot soldiers were stung to death by The Pain's hornets, the rest fled the area to avoid the hornets.
Later on, several members of the Ocelot Unit along with regular GRU troops make a joint search party to hunt down Snake after hearing that he escaped down the sewers. The unit this time had attack dogs with them as well as Ocelot leading the search party. They might have succeeded as they cut Snake's retreat off, at the top of a huge waterfall (the end of the sewer being at least fifty meters above the river below) but thanks to Ocelot's orders to put their guns down as well as Snake actually jumping off to the bottom of the waterfall, they failed.
The Ocelot Unit's ultimate fate is unknown since Grozny Grad was destroyed by a Davy Crockett missile.
[edit] Optional Encounters
- Upon encountering The End on the Ponizovje docks, Snake can choose to snipe him and kill him prematurely. If he chooses this option, another Ocelot Unit will take his place in the Sokrovenno forest.
- If Snake doesn't remove the transmitter that Ocelot implants in his back during the torture scene, he will face yet another Ocelot Unit squadron in the forest immediately following his "battle" with The Sorrow.
[edit] Trivia
- In the Japanese version of MGS3, the Ocelot Unit is literally called the "Mountain Cat Unit."
