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** There's also the fact that the section Tylor's captain of is delegated as the "dumping grounds" of the military, specifically for the guys that make the military. Tylor himself was sent there because his actions (averting a terrorist threat) demanded a promotion, but his unprofessionalism (waltzing casually into a threatened zone, hitting on the hostages, picking up a discarded gun and giving it back to one of the ''terrorists'', etc.) pissed off the Brass.

* On a similar note to the above ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' has a crew with...very [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|peculiar character traits]]. Justified on two levels however. The first is that they are officially working for a heavy arms company, not the military (though they ally with military, who itself is pretty mild on the military scale). The second is that the company wanted to build the best crew possible for their ship, ignoring all character flaws.

** ''[[Super Robot Wars Judgment]]'' even went to the point of hanging two lampshades on it. In Calvina's route, she's literally the only one early on who is the [[Only Sane Man]] compared to most of the Nadescio crew she's hired to be a tactics instructor to, and even she realizes being a total hardass is less effective then accommodating their quirks within reason to get anything done. Later, when actual military brass try to impose being serious on the crews of the Nadescio and Archangel, Yurika makes it clear they can shove it while Murrue merely agrees, but in practice even Murrue quietly follows Yurika's lead in accommodating quirks in her subordinates because they have to deal with such a [[Ragtag Band of Misfits]] that the only way to maintain ANY discipline.

* The Time/Space Administrative Bureau in ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is organized rather informally. Not that they aren't fairly loose even for this, but they act more like a ''police force'' with expensive toys all the way up to a sizable fleet than they do a conventional military. Their interests seem to be solely in capturing criminals, peacekeeping, and disaster prevention/rescue, never in taking or holding territory.

** This is given a nice lampshade in ''[[Nanoha Striker S|StrikerS]]'', where during a conversation Hayate had with Major Nakajima, it's mentioned that while ace mages (such as Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate herself) tend to get promoted ''very'' quickly, the ranks are really there for show more than anything else. It's made obvious what is meant by that during the same scene; Hayate is a Lieutenant Colonel, and thus technically Nakajima's superior, but both of them act like Nakajima's the one in charge.