Consider them the armed-forces cousins of the Cowboy Cop. Military personnel who break all the rules, annoy their superiors, but generally win because they break the rules. Existing largely because of the Rule of Cool, as in real life, the military needs people they can be certain will stop fighting when ordered just as much as they need people who will start. The primary purpose of discipline is to learn self-restraint, after all. (They will occasionally face Reassigned to Antarctica, because the writers know that's where the next trouble will break out.) Examples of Military Maverick include: