I like the spring loaded missile launchers!

I agree, Rich. I'd prefer a military story that has characters that resemble our fave Joes and are even called them. Look at Predator. Yeah, it's sci-fi but it's got enough 'real world' elements to make it great. I'd use Aliens, but that's a tougher sell. It'd almost be MORE fun to do it like STar Trek where you got a crew that's thrown together, they go thru some gnarly mysterious stuff and they just kinda earn their codenames thru the first missions in the movie.

By the end, you could have General Abernathy saying, "Listen up people, we now know this terrorist group called Cobra is for real and we've been tasked to combat them. You Hauser, you call yourself "DUKE", you're in charge. The world's change and so has the battle. We are designated GI Joe. Let's do this!"