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Well, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. There's certain ways that Div 6 is like it is because of the characters involved - simply put, you can't make Nanoha or Fate or Hayate into a martinet without destroying their characters. Vita is a bit more picky on things like that, so they have her ask Nanoha "wait, what about all that crap?" and Nanoha comes back with the "if they have time to salute, I'm not working them hard enough" answer. VERY like Nanoha. ;p
But in other ways, it's set up like the Japanese military because, well, that's what the writers know. Disaster relief and law enforcement, not "eternally vigilant against an enemy", all that jazz. It -should- be like a special forces unit (and the relaxed discipline is a lot like that too), and it is in ways that the writers need it to be in order for their plot to work, but it's not consistently like it in ways that it would be if the writers were familiar with special forces training (and worried about keeping that consistent, which they probably aren't. ;p)
The -good- thing about Hayate's rank, weird as it is, is that if we assume that it's largely related to her mage rank, we can assume that it's hit a plateau; it's not unreasonable that Hayate would get better from when SHE was a captain, but it's unlikely that her power's going to continue going up and up and up, especially now that she's more or less a staff puke these days. ;p With her spending her days doing the paperwork, the political maneuvering, and not making things go boom interestingly, we can assume that SS is as high as she's going to go for quite a while (!) and that they're going to leave her at that rank for ages'n'ages.
Or, assuming that she isn't in Div 6 forever, she might get transferred to another arm where rank isn't a big deal - the enforcers seem to be a little less military in that respect. On the other hand, there's still going to be the question of how much they can trust Hayate, with her squad of Velkan buddies; they can't just slap a limiter on her if she'd be operating independently...
Hayate having that limiter on her is interesting. It's not just "okay, we don't like people being over AAA" - they rank her all the way down to A, which puts her in the "able to fly" range but not any better than, say, the crowds of enforcers who get wiped in seasons 1 and 2. Subtle message by the high command that she shouldn't be leading from the front? Plot device to keep Nanoha up on the screen more? Your call. ;p
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