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The class ahead of me once was in a no salute zone and one guy saluted his commander anyway out of habit and we had to declare that cadet dead for the duration of the day since (I believe) you only salute a fallen soldier in a no salute zone. So everyone had to refer to her as The Ghost of Cadet Caldwell when they spoke to her for the rest of the lab because "Cadet Morris fucking killed her"

Just ORI things: ironing your collar when you're still wearing the shirt in the bathroom ten minutes before inspection and getting walked in on by a member of cadre, who takes one look at you, shakes their head, and walks right back out.

Alacrith deals with her trainees' shenanigans by just sort of staring into the camera like she's in The Office. Vorlen tries to look disapproving but ends up just cracking the fuck up and then has to get on to everyone for laughing with him and breaking their bearing.

One time the supply officer slacked off and left only a handful of us to carry a shit ton of stuff out to the training field by ourselves, so a guy in my squadron carried an entire (leaking) gatorade cooler full of water out there all on his own and by the time we got to the field with the supplies he was entirely soaked from like the waist down. So we formed up in our flights and our deputy commander came prowling over, looked the guy up and down while he's standing there at rigid attention, and asked, "Cadet, why are you wet? You look like you pissed yourself." And since none of us want to throw the supply officer under the bus and earn ourselves a lecture about failing our team, the guy just stares straight ahead into the middle distance and replies "Sir that is exactly what happened." The deputy commander just sort of shook his head, muttered "holy cats, I'm not fucking dealing with this," and walked away.

I want to incorporate the fuckery that happens in ROTC into the behavior of my Sunsharp dragons because they, too, present as an effective and professional military front but Nith's guardsmen would ABSOLUTELY dab in place of a salute and earn themselves ten laps around the border.