Why 30 people joined the army

1-He has always wanted to be a soldier from when he was small, and is perfectly suited to military life.

2-He carried out an armed robbery and was caught, and was given one of three options-hanging and public gibbiting, a long prison sentence in a notorious prison, or five years in the army. Now his main job is torturing POWs for information.

3-His country was invaded and he joined up out of patriotic zeal.

4-His country was invaded and he was conscripted into the army as a result.

5-He joined the army to fight against a slave rebellion, and thinks his foes to be subhuman.

6-To vote and go to university in his country, a term of military service must be served first.

7-His family have always served in the military for as long as they can remember and he didn’t want to buck the trend.

8-The only job he could find was military service and he didn’t want to become a beggar or a criminal instead.

9-The opposing army murdered his family so he joined his country’s army to seek revenge.

10-He was stupid enough to believe the military recruiter’s lies.

11-He is a secret member of a mafia gang whose members first serve a term in the army to learn how to kill effectively and then become criminals when their term of enlistment is ended.

12-In his Aztec-like society the only way for a commoner to become a noble is through a successful military career and he really wants to become a noble.

13-He was abroad and got interned and the only way to escape the internment camp was to join the army of the country that he was in.

14-He wants to join the special forces but to join them one has to join the army first.

15-His country has a three year conscription period for everyone except the blind and/or deaf,the mentally ill, those who are confined to a wheelchair, and certain top athletic stars and scientists.

16-Veterans get free healthcare for the rest of their lives-everyone else has to pay through the nose for healthcare. He wants free healthcare.

17-He wants to gain citizenship through preforming a stint of military service.

18-He was press-ganged into the army and is planning to desert, despite the threat of execution by firing squad if he is caught.

19-Veterans with an honourable discharge get free housing for the rest of their lives so he joined the army for that reason.

20-His clan chief called him out in rebellion, a rebellion that he also genuinely supports.

21-His clan chief called him out in rebellion and threatened to evict him and burn his house around his ears if he refused to join the rebellion.

22-A terrorist group that he is secretly a member of sent him to join the army to launch an attack on it from within when the time is right.

23–A war is raging and he didn’t want to be thought of as a coward.

24-He wants to murder people and commit war crimes so he joined the army as there was a war on.

25-He joined the army to gain military intelligence and then leak it to the other side as he is a spy. If he is uncovered he will be hanged in public as a warning.

26-A mental patient, he should not be in the army at all. He was on day release from a mental hospital when an unscrupulous military recruiter found him and persuaded him to join up. He is totally ill-suited to military life.

27-He wants to become a politician but a law in his country says that all members of Parliament must first serve in the armed forces before they can be elected.

28-His girlfriend said that she would only marry him if he became a military veteran-but as soon as he joins up she plans to cheat on him with his best friend.

29-He wants to join the navy but the navy only admits those who have earned an honourable discharge from the army first and have kept all four limbs and their sanity intact. That way the sailors will be used to military discipline and good fighters as well from the day that they join the navy.

30-He is of legitimate royal birth but must serve in the army first as a junior officer before he is considered to be fit to one day rule the country.