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Except when there’s a draft, nearly all US soldiers spend the first 2 years of their duty as teenagers. In Vietnam, the combat rotation was 2 years; many men joined as teenagers, and died as teenagers. This really isn’t unusual.
You’re right about Putin, but he’s no different than any other leader of a country with a military WRT enlistment age.
Except when there’s a draft, nearly all US soldiers spend the first 2 years of their duty as teenagers. In Vietnam, the combat rotation was 2 years; many men joined as teenagers, and died as teenagers. This really isn’t unusual.
You’re right about Putin, but he’s no different than any other leader of a country with a military WRT enlistment age.