What do you mean by “ribbing”? Especially in the context of your military culture (about which my entire knowledge comes from hoping the fiction I read was based on more than imagination)?
1.
a riblike structure or pattern, especially a band of knitting in rib.
"a fleecy sweatshirt with ribbing at neck, cuffs, and hem"
2.
informal
good-natured teasing.
"he took a good deal of ribbing with the utmost good humor"
I already knew the definition, I was asking for examples. Were they sexual, anatomical, scatalogical, combative, suggesting one person was someone else’s toy, something else, or all of the above?
let's see... anatomical (I got called "HEED" because my hat size was larger than anyone else's there (it's a reference to So I Married An Axe Murderer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-OCjvbV2Z4))... sexual (your manliness was often called into question, usually humorously), combative (sometimes your reputation was called into question)... There are probably more categories of teasing I saw
