Them thinking of themselves like the marines or a military corp or something makes sense too. I was having some booze drinks with one of the guys one time and he was telling me about how you have to do X and then you are promoted to Y, then you do A, and you are promoted to B, etc. I know a lot of careers are vaguely like that but the way he explained it was like scout badges and you had to get a certain number, very specific, and it was documented or some crap. And iirc he listed off all the levels or whatever and what you had to do. Thinking about Pete's accomplishments it kind of seems like a lot of scout badges.