When I was in the military, we were a bunch of 18-22 year olds doing all the work, including direct supervision. What work was that? Building and maintaining

When I was in the military, we were a bunch of 18-22 year olds doing all the work, including direct supervision. What work was that? Building and maintaining nuclear weapons, ICBMs, and all the related support. When my father was 19, he had 40 marines under his command as a Marine Staff sergeant. The Navy sent him to an island called Betio in the Tarawa Atoll. One of the worst disasters in USMC history. But what it wasn't was a defeat. In three days, those "kids" overcame the idiotic Navy planning and took that island. He was 21 when they sailed into Nagasaki harbor, three weeks after it was nuked. Being young doesn't have to mean immature and incompetent. Also, 18 isn't that young unless we make it that way.