[PowderMonkey]

"25 is the new 10."

Sadly, for far too many outside of military service these days it's true. At 22 years of age, two of my high school teachers were both Captains in the Army during WW II. One commanded a tank, and liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp. The other was Audie Murphy's CO. He was awarded a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, the Silver Star Medal with four oak leaf clusters and was twice awarded the French Croix de Guerre – once personally from General Charles De Gaulle. Most 22-year olds I cross paths with these days look and act like 12-year old candy-assed boys, and many still playing with skateboards.

[RipSawyer]

I received my honorable discharge from the USN a couple of days prior to my twenty first birthday. At twenty three I had a Navy electronics certificate and was working in a manufacturing engineering department placing orders for custom made tooling with outside tool and die shops, scheduling work for the in plant tool and die shop and ordering perishable tools for the in plant shop. I was driving a new Mustang and earning a salary equivalent to over sixty thousand annually in today’s money. Of course in those days I was considered a failure...I was still single!

The above is no exaggeration, people thought in those days that I should have had a wife and at least one child by that age.