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** Judging from his reaction to Spike's mocking claim in late season 4 that a military career was "all he was good for," it seems more than plausible that Xander ''really'' didn't want to join the army. Can't say I blame him.
** Joining the military makes it very difficult to control your own time, and there's a good chance he'd end up on active duty at some point. Xander's not cowardly but I don't think that being separated from Buffy and Willow for months on end would work for him.
*** Technically that would be correct, because the instant 9/11 rolls around Naitonal Guard Xander is getting mobilized and will be spending the next year in Iraq. However, at the time he'd be making the hypothetical decision to enlist (the late 90s) nobody would know this was ooming, and NG duty would look like a guaranteed access to military training and resources in return for losing the standard 'one weekend a month and two weeks every summer'. So, its still a question as to why he didn't take the option.
* On a related note, why didn't Xander ever obtain a gun? His soldier period would have given him the knowledge to operate at least a couple of firearms. He lives in America, where guns are stupidly easy to legally obtain. While guns won't kill vampires, Darla shows that they do cause incredible pain, so a gun would still be useful on patrol to incapacitate a vampire from a distance before moving in for the staking. Also, as was shown when Buffy blew up The Judge and Wesley killed Skip, guns are entirely capable of killing various demons.
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