Young French citizens are pissed after the deadly, senseless Paris terrorist attacks that killed 129 people in November, and while it’s surprising many in the country, they’re signing up to join the country’s army, in an effort to fight back.

And they’re applying at an astonishing clip. Like from 500 a day to about 1,500 a day, according to the newspaper Le Monde.

This from The Guardian:

“I’m staggered,” Col Eric de Lapresle, head of the army recruitment service’s marketing and communications department, told the paper. “This is an entirely unprecedented phenomenon.”

The French president, François Hollande, partially reversed planned military personnel cuts in the wake of January’s Charlie Hebdo attacks, which left 17 people dead, and has now frozen them entirely. As a result, De Lapresle said, the army needed 15,000 new recruits this year and 16,000 in 2016.

Applications had already jumped from around 130 a day in 2014 to 500 a day since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and had now multiplied further. De Lapresle said the army’s five recruitment centres were also experiencing unprecedented demand.

Up until 2001, it was mandatory for young French citizens to serve in the country’s military (conscription). It was fazed out by former leader Jacques Chirac, starting in 1996.

As of 2014, there are 115,000 soldiers in the French army.