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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I turned 18 in basic training. You can ship to basic while you're 17. And then go to a unit. You are not deployable to a contingency zone (the widest definition of "place you could be injured by enemy fire") until you're 18.

Later on we got a private who actually made it all the way to the unit and had to wait until his 18th birthday to join us on deployment.