I'm sure some people join both services because they want to give something to their country/community,
or to de-escalate angry men with guns by removing their shades/stop wife-beating child-haters. Equally others join for adrenaline or because it's what their dad/grandad did, even though they're temperamentally unsuited. Unfortunately no selection process can catch them all, so there will be numpties. Not sure quoting Standard (part of Mail group?) will convince emvee.
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Mon 9 May 2011, 16:38, 1 reply)

This ^
Plenty of #1 a bit of #3 and quite a bit of #4 for me.
I'm a fairly average example of the type of bod that joins up. I've just finished 22yrs in the mob including a couple of sandpit tours and have managed to avoid shooting any forrins, despite having mortar rounds dropped around me on a number of occasions by the locals.
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Mon 9 May 2011, 20:13, closed)

I'll ring the defence secretary and let him know there's no need to issue weapons to the British army
They're not there to kill people after all, it turns out. They're actually some sort of charity organisation. I would have signed up years ago if I'd have known that was the case.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 9 May 2011, 20:25, closed)