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There's a few comments about the military age being 18 in the USA. I'm not American, and live in a country where the drinking age is 18 (and believe it should
by toomanybeersies 7y ago
There's a few comments about the military age being 18 in the USA.
I'm not American, and live in a country where the drinking age is 18 (and believe it should stay that way), but it seems to me like maybe the enlistment age should be raised.
18 isn't old enough to be signing up to fight and die overseas. Do we really want people going straight from the football field to the battlefield?
- Someone1234 7y agoSome countries let people join at 18 but they cannot fight until 20 or older. Essentially the first years are spent in military school and or in a kind of reserve role. It is an interesting compromise that still let's people join up instead of college around 18/19 but with fewer moral hazards.