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Registered: 19 January 2009
Posts: 5
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just curious as to how old everyone was when they enlisted.
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"Retired SFC, USArmy" Location: KY
Registered: 20 May 2005
Posts: 2498
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1969 I was 18. Was 18 when I was sent to Nam.
This message has been edited. Last edited by: Coachman, Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes it worth living. -junival c.50-c.130 |
 Location: Arizona
Registered: 08 May 2005
Posts: 1983
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Eighteen. I turned 19 in Boot Camp. Second worst birthday, ever.
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 Location: Southwestern Colorado
Registered: 24 November 2005
Posts: 1804
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I was two days past 17 when I entered Boot Camp.
''DAMM the Torpedoes Full Speed Ahead'' |
 Registered: 24 January 2005
Posts: 3868
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Turned 21 in boot camp. That went over well with the Drill Instructors. I was the oldest in my platoon.
SEMPER FI The Gunny PROUD TO BE AN INFIDEL America is not at war. The Marines are at war, America is at the mall. |
 Location: GE
Registered: 31 July 2008
Posts: 160
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I turned 21 in USAF Basic at Lackland AFB, Tex. Entered again as a Butterbar in the Army at 28. I guess I was the oldest Louie in the Army, but noone cared. It all turned out OK.
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 Location: Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
Registered: 14 January 2009
Posts: 8
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I was 17 when I enlisted and will be 18 when I go to boot camp. A lot of kids here that are in the DEP are between 17 and 19 years old.
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"Curmudgeon" Location: Washtenaw County, Michigan
Registered: 21 January 2005
Posts: 2246
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I was 19 in 1967 and got to send the winter running around in the woods in Kentucky. It was one of the coldest winters they had.
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it" DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, 1952 |
 Location: On an 'Overseas Contingency Operation'
Registered: 08 March 2005
Posts: 1112
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18. An age so long ago when I knew just about everything. I wished I knew as much now as I thought I knew then.
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 Registered: 08 January 2006
Posts: 18
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Joined as a high school senior at 17 and shipped to RTC 7 days after my 18th birthday.
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 Location: Vance AFB
Registered: 19 April 2009
Posts: 15
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I was 18 when i enlisted. I had just turned 18 two weeks before basic training.
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Location: Belgium, Ghent
Registered: 15 August 2009
Posts: 36
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hmmm. turned 18 in 1969, that's not so bad, but as a little kid already fighting a terrible war in Nam must have bin awefull.. "Land Of Freedom, Home Of The Brave!" |
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"LT, USN from the offices of Commander, Submarine Forces Pacific."  Registered: 04 December 2006
Posts: 96
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17 when I signed the dotted line. It was August 13, 1999. That would be a Friday.
una per praesidium |
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