<p>joes are people who take it upon themselves to be the policemen of the brigade, enforcing every single rule, blowing many things out of proportion and generally making themselves the pompous holier-than-thous of the brigade. it is a decidedly negative term. to those who say they would feel it necessary to ‘uphold standards’…joes are about so much more than that. but until you get to annapolis, you can’t really know what they are. you know one when you see one. joes are usually insecure and subpar performers who feels the needs to make up for it by cutting everyone down around them and ‘exposing’ the various misdeeds of their classmates, no matter how minute.</p>