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[Mulan] If Mulan can wash out of boot camp why couldn't her dad?

So Mulan is a fuck up when she first tries to train for being a soldier, to the point that Captain Shang tries to drum her out and send her home.. so why wouldn't that be an option for her Dad who could barely walk without a cane a handful of steps to receive his conscription notice?
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Mulan’s father was already a decorated war hero. They wouldn’t have sent him to basic training. Shang’s division was specifically raw recruits. Being a war hero, it would have been an incredible dishonor for him to wash out, or take an administrative position to avoid fighting. He knew he wasn’t fit, but he was going to go until he keeled over, because that’s what soldiers do.