Reply To: When will the chareidim join the army like the Chashmonaim?

While it’s true that that is only in a milchemet reshut and we are now in an ongoing milchemet mitzva, the fact that the fearful person is worried because of his aveirot show that he frummest should go first (cf. the greatest talmidei chachamim arer mechallel Shabbat for pikuach nefesh). Maybe such a law will stop people from saying “Mirror, mirror on the wall – who is the frummest of them all?”