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R Mercer's avatar

WRT Adulthood:

Most people are not adults until at least their mid twenties--this is due to a combination of actual physical development/maturation and simply having enough actual life experience.

The inexperienced and immature nature of youth is something that any military depends upon. You can get them to do stupid shit because they don't really realize it is stupid shit--it isn't fully REAL to them and their risk assessment is horrible.

I teach high school, I watch these people make bad decision after bad decision every day, multiple times a day.

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Travis's avatar

100% You don't realize how close you were to death until well after service.

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