>JRPG>army is full of teenagers and children>the grizzled old veteran character is like 28 years old
Just like the modern US military
Yeah the japanese are mentally ill
reminder that Rinoa fell in love with Squall just because he was good-looking.Square was redpilling us and we weren't even paying attention
>>730736352This but unironically, average time in the military for enlisted guys is 8ish years, 10ish for officers, most "veterans" are late 20s early 30s and are considered washed up and encouraged to take an office job or get out by their late 30s
>>730736291Isn't that normal? Old people don't go to war.
>>730736536Being a ground pounder after 25 is a bad idea For the body, for the mind, for the soulMost grunts are 1 term guys, it's fine as a deviation from the normal path for 4 years or soTo stick around means there's something wrong with you, the lifers in those MOS are all fucking nuts
Watching people fear their own mortality is hilarious! XD
>>730736291>the grizzled old veteran character is like 28 years oldWho was an old fighter in a garden? Are you talking about Cid? When did he ever fight?
>>730736291Yeah, it's awesome. I don't need to play as a 45 year old fuckwit that takes 20 years to cast a spell when a young gun and fire them off and spam them like roy mustang at a rate of dozens per second. That's how games should work
>>730736536Aren't those Delta Force/Seal Team 6 guys late 30s/early 40s?
>>730736536When I was doing concription, I thought the lt was in his late thirties but actually he was mid twenties and only a little bit older than me. The captain who looked like in his early fifties was actually in his late thirties. The army life ages them up like shit.
>>730736536>>730737187In Ukraine the minimum age of enlistment is 25 because of how fucked their population demographic is. Used to be younger at the start. The average soldier is probably around 40 years old now. Imagine being a 45 yo wizard and having to do that shit.
>>730738254That's retirement age, they go through their pipeline at like 25-35, Chris Kyle was considered old for a person joining and he was 32.
>>730738254Most seal team guys are early 30s but that's literally 0.1% of the overall military, most veterans are just in regular units
>>730736291https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sajngb0W6I
>>730738519Ukraine isn't in a more extreme situationAmerica has drafted before and had 40 year olds ground poundingA standing voluntary army will be very young Kyle Carpenter jumped on that hand grenade when he was like 21, Jason Dunham was like 22Young as fuck, young men do shit like that, old men try to survive
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>>730736486Yeah being a not ugly or hamfat helps, but what really sealed the deal was when he and that gay cowboy saved her from the Iguions. "Just stay close to me."
>>730737697I'd insult you if not for the fact that I first thought that idiot anon meant Cid, too. He's probably talking about Laguna.
>>730736291George Washington was like 28 and a colonel by the end of the French Indian War. It only seems weird because we're all so inept in modern times. The frontiersmen and settlers that built the country were in their 20s and 30s.
>>730741514Cid was the only person I could remember actually in a garden. Laguna, now a mayor, is at least 40 or something
>>730736291Is this literally not how the actual US military operates? You can go to war at 18, be gone for 10 years, and already be a jaded old cunt who's seen too much before you're even 30.
>>730736291the military IRL are mostly children you stupid retarded clueless fuck. By the time you turn 30 the Army don't even want you anymore unless you got like a Doctorate or there is a war going and need more bodies to send to the meat grinder.
>>730736291Finnish men are conscripted at 18. Turns out young men are the most capable fighting force.
>>730736536Don't most officers come from academies? Do they go through higher education for it, get 10 years of employment and are then tossed into the civilian world without any employable skills?
When you're running a child soldier racket, that 28 year old has seen 14+ years of combat
>35 years old
>>730743532>have a degree>have experience being responsible for lots of people and expensive shitSure they aren't doctors or engineers but they could easily be middle management
Im 39 now. In 11 years ill be 50.Its going by so fast
I never got this obsession with the age of fictional soldiers, any setting with soldiers and mercs everyone has to be a 40 year old veteran with a thousand yard stare
>>730748425Just missing some crows feet and id say its about right.
>>730750359And it will go faster and faster the older you get. Soon the millennia will feel like the blink of an eye.
young people are more marketable than older folks
