Finally got around to watching “Falcon and The Winter Soldier” and it would have been so much better if Isaiah Bradley’s story had been the first episode, or a stand-alone movie. Instead it’s just told in exposition. If you go read his backstory, it is a pillar of the F&WS plot. Disappointing that an interesting chapter of this universe is confusingly meted out in bits and pieces across episodes. Here’s hoping his “prequel” eventually gets told.
As an aside — am I really supposed to believe Falcon doesn’t get paid the big bucks and can’t afford to pay to fix up his sister’s boat?
If he’s not on anyone’s payroll, how does he afford Falcon suit maintenance and fuel? Or plane tickets to all these exotic locations where he’s fighting crime? Dude needs some endorsement deals.
By that time, his Exo suit was a Stark design, so I assume it was using repulsors and some kind of mini arc reactor power supply.
But you’re right, in the beginning of the show, he’s USAF.
I always figured he had a small network of contacts coming from Cap being a fugitive during Infinity War. Obvious by Endgame it’s a slightly different story, but I figured the loose network of connections continued even as the world changed. Like Falcon knew about all of Caps connections based on their interactions during Ultron. Obviously the entire world changed, but some people still kept things going.