[5th MEB]

A 16 teen year old, a 14 teen year old, a 12 year old , a 10 year old, can kill you just as easy as a 25 year old or a 21 year old.
Never did understand this age discrimination thing; in the RVN 10 and 12 year olds were killing adult soldiers as well as any VC or NVA soldier.

[Tennessee Nana]

5 year olds were throwing hand grenades in Vietnam..

[Oatka]

Never did understand this age discrimination thing; in the RVN 10 and 12 year olds were killing adult soldiers as well as any VC or NVA soldier.

Same thing in 1945 Germany, according to a vet I talked to in 1946. A pre-teen, or close to it, stuck a Panzerfaust out a window and hit a Sherman tank. The tanks started to brew up and pounding on the hull and the screaming was still going on when he came out with his hands up. He was killed on the spot with no remorse.