• vd1n@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s almost as if some aren’t mature enough at 18 to be in the military.

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      1 year ago

      I agree, but very few self respecting adults are going to voluntarily sign up for a combat MOS, and we gotta keep those gears turning on the military industrial complex!

      For real though, I got lucky. Joined at 19, thought I wanted to kill people, didn’t deploy until I was 23 and much more in the mindset of “what the fuck this is not me at all”

      A lot of the younger guys were vocally disappointed when they found out it was just a peacekeeping mission, low risk. Us “older guys” just said thank God, we’d like to go back to our families at the end of this.

      • 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster
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        1 year ago

        No one is actually mature enough at the age of 18. It’s society’s norm for matureness because you have to set a somewhat low enough limit for things like this, like enlisting.

        Im reality, you mature completely when you’re about 25.