Give the poor sod a chance. He cannot do anything in the army because our loyal media would fill the internet with where he is going or what he was doing before he had blacked his face. The Navy is no use because he would be picked out of a rowboat by some middle eastern patrol boat so that leaves the RAF. Stovies and likewise are out for the same reason so that leaves SAR. Mum runs the shop so he can choose.
The good thing about it that the paparazzi, having monitored every form of communication in the SAR world, may well slide down a wet grassy slope and pitch themselves, and their cameras, over a two hundred foot cliff trying to get an exclusive shot.