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02-26-2009, 05:41 PM
Tanksmasher
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You raise an interesting point, Loose. There are enough "named" Joes to make up a small company, but they are run like a Brigade if you think about it because they have armor, an aviation element, artillery and even combat engineers. And Brigades are typically run by Colonels and even Brigadier Generals, which Hawk is.
And Special Forces, which the Joes more closely resemble, are divided into Groups and Regiments, which are close to Brigade size. So they need a huge command staff, and greenshirts can fulfill these duties, but are greenshirts regular army or are they just nameless GI Joes? In other words, in the IDW GI Joe, Bankshot is an undeveloped, greenshirt-ish character that gets killed quickly, but I'd consider him a Joe because he has a code name. And I like the idea of greenshirts being actual GI Joes, except they just don't take center stage in the story like Duke and Beach and Flint, and many don't partake in combat actions so they're less important in that respect.
But given that GI Joe has its own aircraft and armor and artillery, and that they are an elite, special force, I'd say that they are the size of a brigade, and thus require a similar brigade-size command element and staff.
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