I finally saw X Men Origins: Wolverine, and the credit montage at the start of Logan and Victor fighting through The Civil War, World War One, World War Two and Vietnam was, in my opinion, the best part of the movie. And, since the strips are going into the dark side of lycanthrope history, I thought I'd ask a few questions regarding weres having fought in wars.
I can easily understand how enlisting as a soldier would be a promising career choice if you're superhumanly strong/fast and can heal from nearly any injury in minutes, but I can also see how getting up good as new after a point blank grenade blast would risk the Secret. I imagine governments would be all too eager to employ such people in their military and do what they can to cater to them? In fact, have there been any All Were combat squads in recent history?
It also seems like it would be easy to accidentally create thralls during war if lycanthrope soldiers get a little too feral in hand to hand fights. Also, while I know nobody really likes to talk about this, with war and conquest you get rape. Given the old fashioned ways of "Find out for yourself or die," just how much was lycanthropy spread by worked up weres who either didn't know or didn't care that sex can transmit it? If you really want to get dark with it, they could potentially get away with it if they made sure to kill the victim afterwards.