User blog comment:Draen1/How do you use your squadmates?/@comment-68.102.180.51-20120514005303/@comment-1388547-20120524054151

I don't think it makes a difference, but I'm not entirely certain myself. There's no obvious indication, so I'd have to watch the power cooldowns with a couple of different loadouts on the same squadmates, which would require running two separate missions to check. Not really difficult, but annoying.