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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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10-07-2011, 03:04 PM
Blue Ninja
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Question:
As I understand it, ODAs, or Alpha Teams, were used in Nam as Force Multipliers, working with and training indigenous forces (as their primary role).
A) is this still a correct definition/mission role for Alpha Teams?
B) if so, wouldn't it seem unlikely for GI Joe to have any ODAs, or at least more than one?
Joe's mission is nothing like SF in Nam or any conventional/modern warfare tactic. There are rarely if ever a indigenous force to train as guerrilla fighters. Or even conventional recce or search/destroy missions, as in Nam or Iraq, Afghanistan or other open warfare areas.
Obviously, Joe is based on a subset of SF's organization...a team, like Delta or Seal Team Six. Trying to ascribe large unit organizations to them just doesn't seem to work.
Of course, I am beginning to think that the whole thing of Joe being a military run unit at all...more like a CIA or other Alphabet soup organization that draws on military resources but isn't restricted by the same policies as the military like Posse Comitatus. Posse particularly bugs me because Cobra, Joe's primary tasking, is primarily a domestic terrorist organization.
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