Making them longer and fewer or giving all the orders to a sim one time around would work. The tedium of doing the same thing over and over again is a turn off for me. Another way of doing would be to call all the military sims together in a formation and then giving them orders. It's not realistic giving orders in a bar and having to work around celebrities and regular customers to drop someone for push ups.
It would have been nice if they had created a military only neighborhood/base.