Playing With Mildly Military

I need some help on a Mildly Military Playing with a Trope entry.

Basic premise: a military organization with very lax discipline and rules of hierarchy.

• Played Straight: Pvt. Jones routinely calls his Lt. Smith by her first name.
• Exaggerated: ???
• Justified: The Troperia "Army" is a hastily recruited Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
  • Or the Troperia Army is a hybrid military/civilian organization.
• Inverted: The head of the electronics company Troperia Electronics Inc. is known by the title "General" and workers salute their bosses.
• Subverted: ???
• Double Subverted: ???
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: The Troperia Army gets their ass handed to them during their first real battle due to their total lack of discipline.
  • No one takes the Troperia Army seriously because of their lack of discipline.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Averted: The Troperia Army places strict emphasis on discipline.
• Lampshaded: "Gee, the Troperia Army doesn't seem to be very professional."
• Invoked: The Big Bad, knowing that Troperia's army is undisciplined and likely ineffective in combat, decides to invade Troperia.
• Defied: "Ugh, we've got to teach these 'soldiers' of Troperia some discipline."
• Discussed: ???

edited 13th Oct '10 7:55:03 AM by DialgaX

I think the best "Justified" examples (and most-common Real Life ones) tend to involve units that are substantially different in kind or physically distant from "the Regular Army." M*A*S*H or Real Life Special Forces guys in the Afghanistan boonies come to mind.

It might be better to have the examples talk about a unit as opposed to "The Troperia Army" - having an entire army be Mildly Military would be pretty uncommon, at least if there's any sort of genuine threat in the universe.

Exaggerated: You get put in the brig for trying to enforce the rules.

Reconstructed: The lack of discipline leads to a disastrous defeat, but they partially redeem themselves because their focus on individual initiative and loose organization make them surprisingly good at guerilla warfare.