Just speaking as someone who was an 18 year old who got deployed to Iraq twice before turning 21 and could neither drink nor own a gun when I was stateside at Camp Pendleton in California until after tour #3, we could make military exceptions for both while keeping it off limits from the civvies as a middle ground compromise :-)
Just speaking as someone who was an 18 year old who got deployed to Iraq twice before turning 21 and could neither drink nor own a gun when I was stateside at Camp Pendleton in California until after tour #3, we could make military exceptions for both while keeping it off limits from the civvies as a middle ground compromise :-)
I shit you not when I say there were kids in my platoon/company/battalion who got killed before they were legally allowed to drink or own a gun in the country they were serving. Blows my mind to this day.
Just speaking as someone who was an 18 year old who got deployed to Iraq twice before turning 21 and could neither drink nor own a gun when I was stateside at Camp Pendleton in California until after tour #3, we could make military exceptions for both while keeping it off limits from the civvies as a middle ground compromise :-)
I shit you not when I say there were kids in my platoon/company/battalion who got killed before they were legally allowed to drink or own a gun in the country they were serving. Blows my mind to this day.