Being unrealistically small for a standard Finnish garrison it only houses one of each rank of officer between Sergeant Major (Körmy) and Colonel (Tossavainen), as well a group of four corporals who start off as privates in the first film of the series.
The first film features a joke of Finland winning the Ice Hockey World Championships against the USSR.
The character Körmy describes himself as "the meanest bastard of a Sergeant Major" to the privates in the first film.
At times Körmy is also the subject of simple rotten luck, such as when his parked army jeep slid down hill and pushed a row of cars into the Gulf of Finland.
Körmy is also quick to take action and is generally displayed as being far more competent than most of the officers that outrank him in Räyhäranta.