Most certainly. Hohiro's and Victor's posting was generally understood as part of a mutual deescalation between Theodore and Hanse. Send their heir somewhere remote, where there will be no chance of conflict with the other side. As for Janos... it's just his lot in life, I guess. Suffer I must, so suffer I will.
I like the comparison between Janos and Theodore more and more: Both get assigned a somewhat sub-par Mech by their fathers, both get send to less than prestigious units. Janos decided to shoulder this burden and pull through by determination and sense of duty. Theodore, on the other hand, tries to one-up his father by going around him (in pursuit of a better Mech) or spite him by turning is posting into a proving grounds of his ideas on how to reform the military. Later, too, Janos shows a strong inflexibility when met with difficult situations: His daughter refuses to engage in a political marriage and wants to marry for love? Disown her and all but send her into exile. There's discontent in his immediate family about his policies and the way things are run? Bull through, tattoo an eagle on your forehead and execute your son, when the rebellion comes. You can not doubt the man's sense of duty and adherence to what he thinks is proper. But if you look at the series of conflicts with his children and next of kin, I can not help but see a man so consumed by his rigid code of conduct that he alienates all those that can not or will not live up to his expectations.
