Untrue..The average age of recruits is 19 yrs old...The average age of the entire military is 24-25 ears old.
I always wondered about the 19 year-old average age claim. I know several that are career guys with 15-18 years in so far. That puts them in their 30’s at a minimum… There are a lot of people that fit that description too.
It would tend to skew the 19 year old figure upward, that’s all.
I don’t know where they pulled that figure from. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the average age of an Army infantryman in Viet Nam was 19 or so… maybe that’s where it came from.