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The enlistment office rang her a month later to say he had died on 11 February.

"He said, 'You can either burn down a military enlistment office, set fire to a military vehicle or sabotage a Ukrainian Railways electrical box.'"

Though it is described in a title as “the least important U.S. Army base in the world,” you could do worse than spend your enlistment working in a fromagerie.

Cruise's lead role in the 1986 smash hit Top Gun shot him into celebrity status, and the film's record-breaking success spiked military enlistment.

Reflecting on his enlistment, he once said, “I just thought I was gonna go dancing all the time, have a good time, see the world. What’d I do? I got caught in the war.”