(12-31-2019, 04:10 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(12-31-2019, 11:04 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I don't really agree with the 21 age limit for much of anything. 18 year olds are adults and should have all the rights and privileges of adults in this society. Perhaps if the military needs more mature recruits then they should consider some type of transitional program, similar to ROTC or military school, for "cadets" who enter at 17 or 18 and transition to the full service branches or to the Military Academies after graduation at 20. We used to do that with the Citadel and VMI and other schools, no reason we couldn't bring that back full force. It would probably give the military a much more highly educated talent pool to work with right from induction.

Because they'd be officers and the military needs grunts to function.

It can never, ever raise the enlistment age to 21 because the military would fall apart

"...and transition to the full service branches or to the Military Academies..." leaves room for cadets to matriculate as enlisted personnel. And hogwash, the military is already bloated; time to declare victory in the Cold War, bring them home, and scale them down to more suitable operational levels for modern, hi-tech warfare.

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