9. Discipline
Part and parcel with the GI Joe recruiting practices above is how they condition and unify their soldiers once they join. Let's look at MacArthur S. Ito (codename:
Quick Kick). Quick Kick is a master of silent weapons and, as you know, it's the silent ones that are the most deadly. His primary military specialty is infantry. In every movie that you've ever seen with infantry soldiers, you'd expect every single soldier to wear ... oh say ... shoes. Quick Kick has no regard for the uniform policy that is essential to the conforming of many wills into a unified collective. Even the great Harry Potter wears a uniform. Find me two Joes that are dressed the same. Just two. Quick Kick declines even to cut his hair. His secondary military specialty? Intelligence. That must be why he's shirtless and shoeless in the Artic. He's a real genius. Or what about David Katzenbogen (codename:
Bazooka)? This guy just rolled up to work wearing his football jersey with camo pants. Really effective camouflage if you want to blend into a Nascar race. Hector Delgoto (codename:
Shipwreck) dresses like he's straight out of a Village People video. And then there's Robert Blais (codename:
Cross Country). This guy wears a Confederate Flag on his belt buckle AND a grey Confederate uniform! I'm sure the back of his HAVOC assault vehicle is loaded with white hoods and wooden crosses for burning. How is his personal fashion sense going to help morale when Cross Country works with Roadblock, Doc, or Frostbite?
