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10-07-2011, 03:18 PM
thegame68
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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.
That is a very good point. I guess how I'm viewing these ODA teams like Tiger Force is based on some of the comics. I can't quote issue numbers, but we are shown that Recondo works in Sierra Gordo with the local population resisting Cobra. Also wasn't there an issue where the Joes are sent into a Middle Eastern like country to fight Cobra when the political situation prevented the normal military from intervening. There are other issues where certain Joes end up working with rebel forces in some way or another. That's why I thought of turning some of the subteams into ODAs.
I see what you are saying about Posse Comitatus though. With Cobra being an ever present enemy of the United States for decades now and the fact that they are a sovereign nation on Cobra Island, couldn't Congress declare war on the Nation of Cobra? Wouldn't that then make their forces operating in the United States a foreign invasion and allow regular military forces to fight them within the borders?
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