Hehe. I suspect, in the not-quite-game-accurate version of the story that is my imagination, Alice Carter went more with her title as General of the Commonwealth Minutemen. After all, even if the idea in the old thread of her having military/DIA/something connections in her history is accurate, you don't go talking about that to random civilians in power armour with mercenary markings on it, even two hundred years later. She went with relatively polite, mostly respectful, and initially declined his offer to join the Brotherhood as a recruit, given her own priorities and the responsibilities she'd accidentally inherited from Preston.

While I've joined the Brotherhood in-game, for the purpose of seeing that part of the storyline, the less scripted version would likely have her offering a somewhat informal alliance, which the Brotherhood would probably assume was her joining up and trying to make her gang of mercenaries look more legitimate. And if they want to be smug and not pay too much attention to the artillery the Minutemen allied settlements are building, that's fine by her.

I just reached the Prydwen, and they're all calling Alice 'Initiate', even though she's wearing the Minutemen Generals uniform, and Piper is standing next to her in a blue Colonial Duster (Yay Minutemen Uniform mods!). I'd have brought Preston, but he's at the Castle with Ronnie Shaw, ready to start throwing artillery the airships way if they try anything. Better safe than sorry when dealing with these guys.

Mind you, while considering the barely filled out Pre-war backstory, the old fiction trope of Everyone knew Everyone occurred to me, leading to an amusing mental image for when Alice's patience with Elder Maxson officially runs out. It'd come somewhat late in the BoS story, right before the cutoff point that turns certain factions against you. Maxson, ranting and raving about a shocking discovery he's managed to reach all the wrong conclusions on, starts accusing the player of being in on the 'conspiracy' and not truly loyal to the ideals of the Brotherhood, etcetera and so on.

SOLE SURVIVOR
Roger would be ashamed of you boy.

ELDER MAXSON
... Who?

SOLE SURVIVOR
Roger Maxson. Your ancestor. Founder of the Brotherhood of Steel. Captain in the United States Army. And my friend. I knew him well, before the old world fell apart. And let me tell you, he'd have been ashamed of what you idiots had done with his legacy.

(Hey, information on just what sort of man Roger was before they discovered the FEV experiments is pretty non-existent. The thought of him being the sort to stand against the modern Brotherhood is kind of pleasing.)

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter