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in reality most likely she'd be a WMD-tier military asset with her own special operations attachment, there would be a score of men both at home and on the field just to communicate with her, plan her movements and responses to the target, monitor her vitals and "fusion levels," provide fire support, and probably act as first responders to the collateral damage she'll inevitably cause - which would be entirely reasonable to an extent for something like the US government, considering she's fighting giant monsters.

if they built armor, weapons, or produced size-appropriate clothing for her (assuming her clothes don't somehow grow as well and the ones she does wear as a giant can be damaged) then there would be just as well a score of technicians following her along to maintain her equipment and outfit her, almost reminiscent to a corp of modern squires.

with all this though none of it means she would have even a single modicum of militarial authority over any of them. at least in the eyes of the government, at best she would be their equals in rank, at worst a paramilitary black-ops kind of tag-along. but i think thematically having that sort of physical, immediate power would certainly hold her in a place of respect and a rational, though discrete, level of fear - by everybody, government, civilian, military. so i think the dead and rotting horse trope of "they treat her like a weapon maaaan like a machiiinnee in a laaab" is just ridiculous. absolutely nobody would directly fuck with her but some sort of indirect political divide over her deployment and damages would exist simply because of the inevitable merits of the concept itself. she would also probably be one of the first targets for foreign gov-approved assassination in hot/cold war scenarios with her host nation and another superpower, they would be after her in non-giant mode constantly because again she is essentially a nuke on legs.