I bought Muskrat online not all that long ago, maybe 2008 or even 2009. Still a rather new(er) to me figure. When I bought the 2004 Vamp with Whirlwind, the Torpedo figure was the first time I shad the Muskrat body in person. I thought the Torpedo figure was great with that set, I just had it in my mind that THAT head belonged to Wet-suit (I had the 1992 Wet Suit already, side by side... didn't work for me...). It was a great figure otherwise, and being that other than the head, the rest was Muskrat, I had to get Muskrat. That's pretty much why I went after getting Muskrat.
It wasn't too long after getting Muskrat that I was working on my "department" project, where I was grouping certain figures into certain squads if they fit together.
Muskrat, being a swamp fighter, I placed into my "jungle squad." Looking back, I think it was a fairly good looking group of figures. Pathfinder and Recondo probably fit the best with Muskrat. Leatherneck could have gone just about anywhere, I suppose, but Tunnel Rat felt right to me on this squad due to the EOD specialty and his look.
Now that my large force is gone, though, a goal with my small team was to retain a sense of my former large force of a variety of specialists. I figured that character-wise, Muskrat was quite interesting, as his file card indicates that he felt that Ranger school and JWTC were like summer camp.
The character was born tough and seems like a guy that would be great on just about any mission, especially lrrp-style patrols. And especially in tough terrain.
And the figure is great, fairly basic soldier looking, with a great shotgun.