Brits who are specific heights could avoid conscription in event of WW3

Should the worst come to pass and World War Three ends up happening, then some Brits would be able to get out of military service by being specific heights.

The government has made it very clear that conscription is not on the cards and definitely not something they want to introduce, but the events of the world happen whether Keir Starmer likes it or not.

Just in 2026 alone, we've seen the US abduct the leader of another country, tensions rise over Greenland as Donald Trump insists he has to have it, and Russia threatening that such things could bring about the 'end of the world'.

It is an increasingly dangerous and volatile world we live in, and the rising tensions are boosting concerns that the cascading stupidity and recklessness of recent times is going to result in something very bad indeed.

With various warnings that the UK is not ready to fight a larger scale war the issue of potential conscription in a worst-case scenario remains a concern as something the government does not want to do but may be forced to do should the world end up a certain way.

The armed forces have some height requirements (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

As such, there's been a lot of interest in exactly how one would get out of such an arrangement where their country demands military service of them.

There are some people who would be exempt and ways out of it depending on one's job or health status.

Some folks at LADbible Towers have been wondering aloud how their young, healthy selves might have some way out in the event of conscription but thus far have not been able to find convincing reasons beyond their knee hurting a bit from a football injury.

However, one way out may be height, as the British Army has a minimum height requirement of 4'10 (147cm), so the shortest of short kings might escape conscription, should catastrophe engulf the globe.

Under 4'10? You might be alright (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the Royal Navy allows you to be a little bit shorter than that at 4'9 (145cm), though across the various branches of armed forces, some jobs have a specific minimum height requirement.

You'll need to be a bit taller if you want to fly a plane or be a crew member on board a submarine, and it's quite a difficult thing to qualify for if you've overshot it, you'll have a hard time making yourself shorter.

Perhaps the real goal ought to be hoping there won't be a World War Three, and none of this conscription stuff would ever be necessary.