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I’m currently writing a story that involves a set piece battle in the future ( whether I post it or not depends if I think it’s any good) anyway it got me thinking about what the structure of Johns command would be like.
Rank isn’t just to say who’s top dog, it designates what unit types/numbers you command. For example a lieutenant commands a platoon of approximately 11-44 soldiers give or take and a captain commands 2 platoons or more called a company and so forth.
Perry is a one star General (Brigadier General) so he is either a deputy commander to commanding General of a division or is the commander of a brigade size unit, 3000-5000 strong
John is a four star General (General) and can command anything from 50000-1000000 soldiers, that is, multiple divisions (Corps) or Army (Corps or multiple Corps)
I some how doubt that John has that many troops under his command so I think his command structure while following general military principles is probably akin more to the French resistance of WW2 with “cells” rather than the regular army chain of command. Each “cell” would be independent and wouldn’t know the location of other “cells”, they would have a set zone of operation and wouldn’t be any larger than Company size as larger formations would find it harder to avoid detection.
A cell could be commanded by any rank from lieutenant to colonel regardless of actual unit size. It would be conceivable that officers of varying rank survived JD but lack the troop numbers to justify that rank so I envisioned a divvying up process of the available officers to the various “cells”

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"Maybe but we will have to find out for sure. He seems pretty white to me. Unless that what his new fake id may say about him in 2007"

What does race have to do with anything? Excluding in some anthropological outlooks race coincides with nationality (paticularly in Mexico)...but in this day and age you can be Haitian and be white racially---of course in Haiti you'd be considered Black even if you made Frosty the Snowman tan in comparison.

The only group that is not a racial group is Latino/a. Since every country taht speaks spanish in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are of mixed descent unless they can say otherwise....which not many can.

So being "white" doesn't stop you from being Mexican or even Chinese for that matter.

As for his status...he's a US citizen. He'd have dual. Only if he was Haitian would he not have dual, he'd have to choose. I realize that Sarah was driving to Mexico at the end of T1 and she could have very well aided with the Zappatista movement, but when I was thinking of Guerilla warfare I figured she went down to Souh America like Columbia or stayed in Central like Nicaragua.

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