But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
-Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
In other words, everyone hates to play the fool, and Slug’s fucking with these enlistment officers has them pissed off.