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Using the '62-'80 (inclusive) definition the very youngest Gen X'ers was 20 on 9/11, and the oldest was 39. The bulk of the people that ended up fighting in Afg
by bradleyjg 11y ago
Using the '62-'80 (inclusive) definition the very youngest Gen X'ers was 20 on 9/11, and the oldest was 39. The bulk of the people that ended up fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq were millennials. Admittedly you get a somewhat different result if you use the 1985 endpoint.
The first gulf war was definitely our war, but it wasn't much of one. Total US causalities of less than 1,200 (KIA + WIA). The Korean War had more than 125,000, WWII more than 1M, Vietnam 210k, Afghanistan + Iraq more than 55k.
I don't think the Gulf War shaped our generation in the same way that those other wars shaped their generations. YMMV.
- jessaustin 11y agoSince my brother has always considered himself Gen-X I never realized that the cutoff could be considered that early. I would expect a generation to be twenty years long at least. Keep in mind that many officers and noncoms (and enlisted, for that matter) are older than 20yo.