From what I noticed the REs are mainly used as cheaper bazooka troops and cache builders, especially when the USF player also goes Infantry/Heavy Cav and now Rifle Company for the Riflemen field defenses. They're not as required as for the Ost or Sov for example because they don't build the HQ buildings.
Perhaps giving them some sort of late game upgrade similar to the UKF Sapper "Heavy Sapper" upgrade to give them more utility? I'm not entirely sure what else to do with them in terms of utility, they're obviously not going to be as good as the Riflemen in the combat role. Unless...
Maybe an M1919A6 upgrade with a "setup" ability? Squad becomes a light machine gun team alternative to the .50 cal, gets the old rifle ability when they had the M1919A6s equipped, can't equip any other weapon. I'd say it be a cheaper option if you needed suppression, you'd be trading some ammo for manpower and fuel (to unlock LT tier).
Sure it's more of a combat role but like I said, I really don't know what else to do with them and your idea sounds a bit... on the extreme side of things so to speak, they'd be more of an officer type unit providing a boost aura to other units around them than actual support/utility units...
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