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Then Vietnam, and more adrenaline-pumping excitement. He lives his dream with luck, pluck and always knowing the glass is half-full. This is the early years of Captain Dave Case's forty-four-year action-packed career as a swash-buckling pilot; always seeking the other side of the mountain. Volume One is the first of three; each crammed with gripping yarns of one man doing it his way. Tyranny in the Ashes.
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Gunny Highway from Heartbreak Ridge fits pretty well. At least the part of annoying your superiors. And isn't there some sort of regulation that forbids the drill instructors from firing live ammunition at their recruits? Well, if there is, there'd be two outs: Colonial Jessup from " A Few Good Men " makes no secret out of the fact that he thinks he is one of these, lampshading more than once how he considers himself to be successful for being able to do things other people aren't ready to do like punishing one of his subordinates in a way that is forbidden in the military.
Deconstructed since at the beginning of the film, a marine dies because of the illegal punishment he ordered, and when the military sends people to investigate, it becomes clear that high-ranking or not, Jessup still committed a crime for disobeying the rules, and will be punished himself for it. Navy for space navies, see Space below. Though, the latter is the only one known to have risked being kicked out. Interestingly, the naval forces of the One Piece world are referred to as the Marines. He's apparently given a lot of leeway due to his combat experience, even taking his dog with him on the boat.
Down Periscope is pretty much based on the idea of the main character playing the part of this trope, in fact he is under direct orders to do so in order to test how well other navy units do when the enemy doesn't follow the script. In particular, one of his crew is deliberately trying to be as big a nuisance as possible so he'll be discharged, because he really doesn't want to be in the Navy but his dad's an Admiral and won't hear of it.
One of the central members of Team 7 in Wetworks is Jester, a hostile troublemaker who has spent more time in the brig than in the field.
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His commanding officer, Jackson Dane, is infamous among top brass for his creative interpretations of mission objectives and orders — and is the only CO Jester has ever shown any respect. Dennis effing Silva from The Destroyermen series Asides from fighting the imperial Japanese navy, he fought Chinese gangsters with a jade statue, disobeyed orders NOT to be in a location only to show up guns blazing, sneaking aboard a carrier by jumping into an ocean from an airplane that would normally kill you in minutes if not seconds His lack of discipline has been commented to be why he is arguably the alliance's deadliest warrior.
Horatio Hornblower , mostly because he has an extremely active mind and naval service is mostly routine with bursts of action; therefore he does his best to increase the frequency of those bursts. In Ship of the Line , he deliberately sails past a rendezvous at night so he can continue to independently raid. In Hotspur he casually mutilates the stern of his ship to put guns in it for a single but crucial battle. In Lieutenant Hornblower , it is suggested that he pushed his dangerously insane captain down a ship's ladder.
His fellow lieutenants suspect this, but no one calls him out on it. Live Action TV Another water-based one: If nothing else, typical naval crews were probably discouraged from carrying Japanese soldiers on board. Horatio Hornblower , which covers his early career from the novels. Horatio is particularly fond of Dressing as the Enemy ; in the first episode he forgets to strike the colors on a captured French frigate and refuses to have them hauled down later because it will let them ambush the corvettes attacking the Indefatigable , despite what the Articles of War say.
One fellow midshipman later accuses him of "cheating" tactics for stealing uniforms later, and he gets called incompetent by the admittedly paranoid and insane Captain Sawyer for firing a half-loaded gun to scare off a couple of frigates who caught them off-guard. Harmon Rabb from JAG. Extra points for being a Cowboy Cop in his regular day job, as he is technically a reservist Navy SEAL and not on full-time active duty. He will break the rules to complete a "mission" military or police , or to help his friends and family.
Real Life Horatio Nelson. At the Battle of Copenhagen in , he was signalled by superiors to withdraw. On being informed of the orders, he put his spyglass to his right eye and declared, "I really do not see the signal. He then proceeded to demolish the combined Danish-Norwegian fleet.
The episode, incidentally, gave rise to the expression "to turn a blind eye". The signal was giving him permission to retreat, not ordering him to, and his commander sent it knowing full well that Nelson would ignore it if his situation was still tenable. Still an example, for the attitude if not the action. Murrue Ramius in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is a Reasonable Authority Figure who repeatedly ignores military regulations and, occasionally, direct orders in order to best serve the well-being of the people involved.
She is contrasted by Natarle , whose strict by-the-book adherence to the rules ends up putting her on the wrong side. Comic Books Discussed in Star Trek: Hikaru Sulu explains to an ensign that the Enterprise crew get the jobs they do because they're both politically inconvenient especially after having stolen the previous Enterprise from their own government and destroyed it but also very good at their jobs. Ditto their Klingon counterpart Commander Kor who is on the outs with the Klingon Empire because of the ridged-forehead Klingons gaining power and their Romulan counterpart Commander T'Cel.
If it works, the day is saved. If it blows up in their faces, they're expendable. Somewhat justified because they aren't really soldiers. Ender Wiggin from Ender's Game was a deliberate Military Maverick - he thought he was being a rebel, but they figured he was smart enough to know better than the rule-makers, and actually intended him to break the rules. Captain Geary is thought of as crazy because he uses reasonable and not particularly noteworthy tactics. Which baffles his fleet, who are used to simply rushing into the enemy and counting how many ships are left over to determine a victory.
Willard Phule of Phule's Company. He gets promoted as a result of accidentally strafing a peace conference after the war had already ended. It wasn't a reward. He was only not fired because the Space Legion never fires anyone, wasn't demoted only because of politics, and winds up in command of an "Omega Company", a dumping ground for troublemakers too stubborn to quit. In a rare example of someone at the top flouting convention, though actually very cultured and refined in a way most Imperial fleet officers only hope to be, Grand Admiral Thrawn spits in the face of conventional strategic and tactical wisdom.
He is confident to the point where he bases entire planetary assaults around esoteric uses of obscure or rare technology and other extremely unusual ideas—ideas that are so odd that he and the captain of his flagship once had a barely-civilized argument over his use of a particular tactic.
That particular tactic was in fact outright reasonable and became routine compared to some of his more inventive concepts. Then again, Thrawn is only one step down in the chain of command from the Emperor: Thrawn was a military maverick among his own people, too. In Outbound Flight , he was the one making preemptive strikes, to the consternation of, well, just about everyone. He actually got exiled for that. Similarly, General Garm Bel Iblis is a slightly more conventional commander, but despite his cunning and ability to make do with less is often politically ostracized.
He even resisted an upgrade to his aging flagship's comm center so that secure messages would remain more secure. This has more to do with his time as an independent rebel, as opposed to capital-R Rebel, than his behavior, but he seems quite content to let matters remain as they are. Thrawn's old student and second-in-command Pellaeon , having picked up a bit of that genius and becoming Supreme Commander in time, also manages to utterly frustrate his poor captain with tactics that seem counterintuitive at best and stupid at worst.
A sort-of inversion comes in the Star Wars Expanded Universe where the Rebel Alliance fleet, now the legitimate military arm of the New Republic, has to adopt the tactics they once so desperately yet handily worked around. Some try to make the change, but find themselves psychologically hamstrung by being unable to convert to the necessary way of thinking; others take to their new roles with gusto, but forget how to anticipate unconventional tactics. Operation Emperor's Hammer resulted when New Republic officers took to the Empire 's tactics very, very well.
Emperor's Hammer, for those who never read the book, was employed against the Yuzhaan Vong, an alien race that only briefly skirmished with the Empire. Therefore they were not aware that one of the primary uses of a Star Destroyer was orbital bombardment Wedge Antilles made the Vong think he was desperately retreating, thus luring a very large ground force into the killzone, and then opened fire. Vader is definitely a maverick within the Empire's military proper court-martial?
His lieutenants can't complain literally. He was a maverick even before he fell to the Dark Side. During the Clone Wars , Anakin was known for disregarding protocol and orders from higher authorities - whether it be from the Jedi Council or the Supreme Chancellor - and still ending up with successful results. With my history, I'd be the laughingstock of the New Republic if I ever brought one of my officers up on charges of insubordination. Yes, sir, I was sort of counting on that. Half of Earthforce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the Medal of Honor.
The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn to compromise, which by all rights means: I should give you the Medal of Honor, then have you shot. Special Forces all branches. Unlike most examples, the series went for a far less positive potrayal of this type of character. Teana's Maverick nature almost caused a friendly fire incident during their second mission and her adamant refusal to listen to the advice and orders of her superiors required several officers to beat the idea into her head that being reckless just for the sake of personal pride is a quick way to get you and your comrades crippled or killed.
It was only when Teana toned down the Maverick nature of hers did she begin to be truly efficient in battle. Comic Books Snake-Eyes, G. Joe Reloaded continuity , is pretty much insane—and the most dangerous man alive. In other continuities, he's simply the most dangerous man alive. Films Deconstructed in Pacific Rim. Most action films portray disobeying or contesting orders as a positive trait, but the opposite happens early on in the storyline when Raleigh and Yancy ignore Stacker's orders for them to stay in the Miracle Mile outside of Anchorage.
Instead, they venture 10 miles out to sea in order to save a small fishing boat, which gave Knifehead the advantage of deeper water. Coupled with their cocky attitudes, this ultimately leads to Yancy's death and Gipsy Danger's destruction. It also marks the end of the Golden Age of the Jaegers, eventually leading to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps only possessing three Jaegers when they attempt to nuke the Breach. It's specifically mentioned by Chuck Hansen that one of the main reasons the Jaeger Program had been decommissioned was because of mediocre and reckless pilots.
Literature Holly Short from Artemis Fowl is like this. Infamously, when her final exam to join LEPrecon was interrupted by a terrorist plot, as her instructor was yelling at her for rescuing him rather then getting backup, she shot him with her paintball gun and repeated what he told her at the beginning of the exercise: Special Forces units do tend to be more lax on the rules. Partly because as elite units their superiors let them get by with more —which is as much because special forces tend to recruit soldiers who are self-disciplined and don't need micro-managing, yet are capable of using their initiative, as out of respect for their capabilities—and partly because they're often assigned covert missions where traditional military behavior can be detrimental.
Mark Bowden's book Black Hawk Down goes into detail about how this could cause friction with more conventional units. The Army Rangers at Mogadishu in practically idolized the Delta unit reputed for extraordinary autonomy and flexibility as the top rung of the special forces ladder, but company commander Captain Steele was concerned that Delta's "cowboy" ways would rub off too much onto the younger Rangers not to mention that he thought that "they could be comically arrogant" who needed discipline, while a Delta sergeant first class had an even lower opinion of the Rangers' basic competence, and of Steele in particular.
The movie would allude to the tensions with the "this is my safety sir" scene and then the Delta SFC's Expy arguing with Captain Steele on the battlefield nearby other Rangers. The movie version left out that the real Delta who inspired the "safety" scene defied Captain Steele in full view of other Rangers , without the immediate urgency of combat as an excuse. According to the book it was worse than that ; both Captain Steele and the Delta SFC generalized the Rangers as having been young and inexperienced and seemed to see the Rangers as not adopting the deeper understandings or self-discipline.
Egregious examples would include Rangers unknowingly firing on Delta positions at least twice without checking first, and a trio of Rangers attempting to imitate how he was taking cover, apparently not understanding that he was doing so only because he'd found a spot where the cover let him fire with impunity. Unfortunately one of those Rangers would be mortally wounded while in this position due to being exposed.
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There is a story about a regulation for "Green Berets" United States Army Special Forces in Afghanistan to wear regular uniforms and to shave after a photo came out of a topless Green Beret in a keffiyah on the scene at an averted assassination attempt. Not only would it make them more visible, but the shaving cost them street cred in a country full of traditionalist Muslims Tabletop Games Warhammer 40, Even more so since the Armageddon Wars, when they took it on themselves to protect civilians and veteran Guardsmen from the Inquisition, who would exterminate any potentially touched by Chaos.
Among the Space Wolves , the Blood Claws are the younger troops who have yet to fully master discipline, seeking only to close with the enemy and grab themselves a trophy. Averted for the most part in the Imperial Guard: The Catachans , however, are an entire army of Ramboes via the jungles of Predator and as such have a special rule; before starting the game they roll to see whether an attached commissar has suffered an "unfortunate accident" miles away from the front lines. Cain himself regularly has to deal with these guys, notably Trooper Magot, Psycho Lesbian and perennial discipline problem.
Not that Cain himself has much room to complain as he tends to ignore his own rule book on a regular basis too. The more organized forces of Chaos tend to have this problem: Video Games Army of Two somewhat takes on the Black Hawk Down example; the first mission is set back when Rios and Salem were Rangers, and their initial awe at the sight of Phillip Clyde whooping ass with his bare hands and free running is tangible.
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Unlike the Delta operators from Black Hawk Down , he's very condescending to them and rather homicidal. In fact, their awe lasts all of five minutes, after which they join the same mercenary company but refuse to work in the field alongside him. In contrast, according to the Blackhawk Down book the Deltas sometimes helped out the Rangers on-base, i. In Mass Effect , the Spectres are considered above all authority but that of the Council, and Shepard still manages to be a Military Maverick. Hell, one of the two alignments is called Renegade.
And even playing the Paragon side of things, you end up defying the Council and conspiring to get your ship back so you can save the day. And that's just the first game. Jacob Taylor, one of your squadmates in 2 , is a former Alliance soldier who's only working for Cerberus because the Alliance refuses to get involved in the colony attacks due to red tape. Despite Cerberus being Mildly Military at best, and Shepard's squad being an extreme Ragtag Bunch of Misfits , he acts the same way he would at the Alliance, and is the only squadmate who makes it a practice to salute.
A minor example only: As they are Silencers , their judgement on what they need is generally considered unimpeachable. Rainbow Six as of Vegas and onward stopped being soldiers who did everything in their power to keep the peace while minimalizing the body count of civilians to having to shoot cops just to stop them from detonating a bomb and ultimately throws the guy off the bridge anyway.
Razing Storm has Shin as the team's maverick. He tends to wind up alerting enemy presence, wreck jeeps and get his friends killed because he gets too far out into the open. Axton in Borderlands 2 was a former Commmando in the working for the Dahl Marines. Emphasis on "former" because he was facing the firing squad due to his Glory Hound ways and his preference for doing things that were "awesome" instead of following orders.
The incident that got him kicked out involved a mission to protect a dignitary from terrorists - only he allowed the dignitary to be kidnapped by terrorists, trailed them back to their hideout, and blew it up, with the dignitary still inside. He was sentenced to fourteen years of hard labour after striking an officer. His sentence was suspended upon volunteering for the commandos.
According to the tutorials, he is violent and undisciplined, but is more of a nightmare for the enemy than he is for his superiors. By far the most extreme example is in the quest "Subtle Maneuvers", where the player is called on to attend a Senate subcommittee hearing which has been called by an Imperial mole.
Mission Control wants you to wait until the Senator has finished haranguing you, at which point you can testify and present evidence of their treason — or you can respond to his first statement by shooting him. You have truly crossed the line this time.
I don't even know where to begin. This is the Republic! You are not above the law! Don't talk to me about laws — you break them left and right! I've bent the rules a few times in my career, certainly — but I've never killed an unarmed public official in the middle of the Senate Tower! You may think you can get away with anything, since there's a war on, but don't think there won't be consequences for this.