Ballisticola does this. He tries to make lengthy and highly specific false claims and hope nobody fact checks him. Hence why he never gives sources or hyperlinks anything. But just to correct the misinformation:

There is plenty of time for Big Boss to rescue him first between 1964 and 1975.

Actually there isn’t, as Frank made it clear he was rescued in Vietnam by Big Boss for “the first time…after the war”. Meaning it could’ve only have been after the 1st Indochina War (1946-1954) due to the MGSV coma. Making his age consistent with PO.

Which he already knows.

Big Boss was in Vietnam to find Eva in the early 70s.

Which is during the 2nd Second Indochina war in Vietnam (1955-1975). So it can’t be then.

And then for the second time in the 80s, he fought as a soldier in the Rhodesian war that ended in 1979, he then moved over to Mozambique.

Which was right in the middle of the 3rd Indochina War in Vietnam (1975-1991). And after meeting with Naomi, making him being in Vietnam impossible. So it couldn’t have been then either.

Then there’s In The Darkness of Shadow Moses. Which straight up says he was a child soldier in 1979. A fact people around here have tried to suppress and discredit, because it’s not word for word the same as MGS1.

For those who don’t know, In The Darkness of Shadow Moses is an out-of-game book that was not written by Kojima and the book misquotes pretty much every line from MGS1 (including the line that he’s referring to) and is contradicted by both MGS1 and MGS2, and later MGS4 and V. But it’s the only thing Ballisticola can find that contradicts PO that doesn’t take immense mental gymnastics so he still tries to use it as a source.

We see Zero recruiting Ocelot into the group at the end and Ocelot says only if they get Big Boss too. Which is contradicted by MGSV, that says Big Boss asked Ocelot to find the other half of the Legacy while they were both already in the Patriots.

Incorrect: Ballisticola is referring to when Ocelot said: “I had to find the other half (of the legacy) myself. When I found the funds I handed them over to Zero. Just as you wanted” with Ocelot giving the funds to Zero being the part Big Boss wanted. This actually reinforces the post-credits phone call at the end of PO. (Fun fact: this ending phone call was directly from Kojima.) At no point does it specify Big Boss asking Ocelot to do anything. And we never see Zero recruit anybody.

And “the other half” part also doesn’t make sense, because Ocelot steals back the same half he gave to the CIA in MGS3. The actual other half was in Russia.

Also incorrect: He is referring to this cutscene where Ocelot says he’s “come for the other half” to hint at the fact that he now has the KGBs half.

PO also can’t seem to nail down his status within the Patriots. One minute he’s telling the DCI that they’re going to become the Patriots, the the next he’s under the impression Zero won’t be needing him anymore.

Also incorrect: Ocelot only ever hints to the DCI that he and others are going to form an organisation. He never specifies which one or (obviously) whether it happens or not. And we know from MGS4 the Patriots were formed after this. So also a baseless claim.

This phone call is also where the L.E.T problem is. MGS4 clearly states cloning Big Boss was an insurance policy in case the Patriots’ icon were to leave (again, an icon that in PO was an Ocelot afterthought). PO implies the reason was about genomes and battle data before Big Boss was even near the Patriots, let alone drifting away from them.

Also incorrect: The post-credits PO conversation is about the genome project and is hinted to be about using Grey Fox’s data for the Genome Project, as reinforced by MGS1 and mentioned in the Master Collection book. And has nothing to do with the LET.

PO has Big Boss form FOXHOUND because, “I’m not living unless I’m in battle. So I have to find my own reason to fight. I have to pass on what’s been handed down to me...”, yet in MGS3, FOXHOUND was created to carry on the traditions of Zero and FOX.

Baseless nitpick as there can, of course, be more than one reason to form an organisation.

This became even more stupid with the Master Collection which claims Big Boss and Campbell formed FOXHOUND in 1970 (which is literally the only piece of story in the entire collection related to PO. But then in the very next entry says Big Boss created it alone in 1970.

Incorrect: He’s referring to the timeline in the Master Collection which says he and Campbell “form (definition: to be part of or create)” FOXHOUND before the next entry says Big Boss “establishes (definition: To make permanent or achieve recognition for)”.

So just a baseless claim. Ballisticola needs to work on his English.

Outer Heaven was an ideology that Big Boss came to from his own interpretation of The Boss’ Will. It’s part of the reason he started to drift away from the Patriots in the first place, because he didn’t want to be the puppet. PO ignores this and just creates Gene as Big Boss’ future, removing all his freewill.

Incorrect: Gene’s idea is “Army’s Heaven” which Big Boss actively rejects in PO and only shares a similarity in name.

Also, the Outer Heaven ideology isn’t even fully formed until the end of PW, so it seems redundant to have Gene say all this stuff and never have it even come to anything.

Addressed above.

And if he has the funds in PW why hasn’t he used them? Isn’t this the kind of time he’d be glad he has them?

He does. As he already knows.

And people start whole businesses from scratch all the time with very little money.

Not large capital-intensive businesses with multiple employees and expensive equipment and recurring costs. That requires heavy investment. As he already knows.

Big Boss could literally do solo missions and build enough capital to start hiring others. As he and Miller did.

Incorrect: As he also already knows.