I'm very interested to see what the SWC community thinks of this. Me and several of my colleagues (who all grew up with the '80s cartoon, comics and action figures) are in abject shock over it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296054,00.html

A snippet--

No longer will G.I. Joe be a U.S. Special Forces soldier, the "Real American Hero" who, in his glory days, single-handedly won World War II.

In the politically correct new millennium, G.I. Joe bears no resemblance to the original.

Paramount has confirmed that in the movie, the name G.I. Joe will become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity" — an international, coed task force charged with defeating bad guys. It will no longer stand for government issued, as in issued by the American government.