@Aldrich:
What's the point of the Admirals? Really you're making some spectacular lapses of logic sometimes.
Huh? Did you only read part of my post? I'm saying that, what's the point of the these of the mighty Aokiji if so many people within the marines come so close to their power? Great men are rare, and not defined by any rank. Their are only 3 Admirals and who knows how many VAs. If one VA could attain that rank, we'd have more then 3 for sure.
Garp's a great example. He's a strong man. He's a great VA. But he's not great because he's a VA–he's a legend on his own "The legendary VA Garp."
Hey, he should be an even higher rank, the fact that he's not shows that ranks are only a title of strength for the Admirals and shichibukai. Smoker's strong because he's smoker, the fact that he's a captain means jack shit.
It's like the Yankees, are they all like Babe Ruth? They're all on the same team...
I can't see any VA getting his ass kicked by Nami.
Even that old lady? Well, I kind of see that too. However, lets not forget that strength is defined by comabt effectiveness in One Piece. Maybe some of them have strength through techniques that are ineffective on the SHs. It's happened before.
That scarface VA, for all we know he may have just been a marksman. He was awfully fast to pull out his gun as opposed to fists of fury..