So if you ignore the reasons Jim has cited, all of which seem perfectly reasonable to me, what other reasons are there for a bus driver in Bolton to leave his family and go to France?

You know, the words "brave" and "foolhardy" are not mutually exclusive.....

Your pathetic attempts to gag reality on the flimsy basis that YOU think dissent to the official MoD account of their cock ups is disrespectful doesn't wash. Dragging the "brave young men" into your justification is not nice, not clever and not very respectful either.