The United States army announced last month that it would raise the maximum age at which Americans can enlist from 35 to 42 years to expand its pool of eligible candidates amid recruiting challenges in recent years.
An updated version of US Army Regulation 601–210, dated March 20, outlined the changes, including the elimination of rules requiring anyone with a single conviction for marijuana possession or drug paraphernalia to obtain a waiver to enlist.
The new age limit was announced during the US-Israel war on Iran, towards which young people have expressed widespread opposition.
The updated version of Army Regulation 601–210 officially takes effect on Monday, April 20.
Most 40 year olds are just fine. Bitching about a back and being slower doesn’t make you unable to fight my man. Y’all yeah take the Internet to seriously.
Second modern warfare isn’t living in a trench on the front advancing back and forth, your not marching absurd amounts of gear. Most are hunkered down with drones and a laptop.
Idiotic conversation that we’re having, but let’s not pretend that most of these people will tell the government to fuck off and jail me or sabotage the effort. Thats going to be the actual issue.
The biggest branch in the US Army is infantry and they carry a bunch of shit and move around quite a bit.
Confidently incorrect is the best kind of incorrect.
Tell me you a) haven’t paid attention to any modern conflict taking place on earth right now, and b) you’ve never actually done any of it yourself, without telling me.
There’s plenty of jobs in the military that aren’t fighting on the front lines. US power at war is derived from its logistics. Need people to drive trucks, get water, build shit. USMC has over 300 jobs, but 03 jobs are essentially the ones considered front lines. They always throw the 10% number around, 10% do the fighting while 90% support.
And 90% of logistics is moving heavy things long distances.
I’ve never met a single service person, in both my 10 years in and since, who didn’t have to carry heavy shit. The whole military mindset is “Don’t use a machine to do what human bodies can do with a little effort.”
I served with dudes whose motto was if you can’t truck it, fuck it, but I get what you’re saying. I also think we’re not talking crazy heavy shit. A case of MREs is like 20lbs, and I’m sure you, like me, did many an assembly line of MREs. I actually found loading trucks via assembly line to be efficient. And did I sometimes carry 100+lbs of shit? Absolutely, but I also did that 03 job.
They’ll find a place for the older, heftier folks to serve. And they’ll also get those people in better shape.
Clearly not kept up on reports from ukraine.
LOL people under the age of 40 downvoted you, my guess. Are you the same as you were at 25 when you hit 45? No. Are you old and invalid? Also no.
I’m actually pretty sure both of those are listed as prerequisites for getting your first hook.