One of my neighbors fled the Marines after getting his orders to go to Iraq.
The Marines lost a really worthless guy when they lost him.
My BIL was in the army, landing craft of things would have figured the navy would have handled that, when he heard the rumor that we might be heading for the Mideast to fight, just so happened that is reenlistment time coincided with the rumor, so he reupped for out after 13 years of taking the taxpayer’s money. Army was great in peacetime but he had a different opinion when the possibility of shots being fired came round.
After he got out he got a job with the government which counted his 13 years towards retirement.
I never liked that guy.