That thought had entered my head as well that he just wanted out.
I have seen it before as a civi and I was none to happy with the way the guy did it.
He was all set up for a top telecoms job and it was to start in 3 months.
He was a sigs scaley with some special training in packet switching and some special system which was the reason he was hired.
He put in to get out but because he was one of the few that had been through the course for it and he had a return of service they were saying 18months plus.
So he beat the crap out of a blanket stacker WO1.
Took a month to process, one month in colchester and then out the door to start his 100k a year job via 2 weeks in Cyprus
My main beef was that he did the guy some serious damage with a detached retina, and if he had any balls he should have gone and smacked one of the infantry WO1's or Engineer ASM's.
I did say that we shouldn't take him but was overruled because he had a rocking horse poo skill set.