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By the time I was 21 I had finished SERE School and all my technical training.

And I was relaying Emergency Action Messages to Strategic Forces at Sea. Real end of the world stuff.

How was I to know I was still an adolescent?

1 posted on 01/20/2018 7:49:07 PM PST by Mariner
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Proof positive you can find a scientist to say just about anything these days.


2 posted on 01/20/2018 7:53:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (a/o 01/17/18 DJIA close 26,115.65, 45.993% > the morning of 11/07/16. 716.77 to 50% increase..)
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Fine. Lift the voting age to 25.


3 posted on 01/20/2018 7:53:44 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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Really? 'Science'?

I am not saying the notion of people maturing at a later age is silly, I am saying that the notion of 'scientists saying so' is patently ridiculous, and it's ridiculous that every headline these days seems to be a statement of fact followed by a comma, followed by 'study finds' or 'scientists say.'

But I am not tooling on the post or poster, say scientists.

:-)

4 posted on 01/20/2018 7:55:17 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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It begins at 18. Deal with it.


7 posted on 01/20/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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For Liberals, it never begins.


9 posted on 01/20/2018 8:04:07 PM PST by Revel
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At 19 the USN had my butt stationed on Guam.


10 posted on 01/20/2018 8:06:11 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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At age 24, one could be an army veteran and still see the pediatrician.


12 posted on 01/20/2018 8:11:04 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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No prob, the void will be filled with anti-American, illegal aliens.

No doubt this is/was the Left’s plan.


13 posted on 01/20/2018 8:11:31 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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No prob, the void will be filled with anti-American, illegal aliens.

No doubt this is/was the Left’s plan.


14 posted on 01/20/2018 8:11:32 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Bullsh**-legal adulthood is 18-but upbringing and experience makes “real” adulthood variable. I graduated, assumed adult responsibilities at 16, eloped, had a cub and started college by 17-and that was not unusual for ranch kids, either-most of the guys I knew were in the military at 18...

There were no snowflakes then, either-they would have been unable to survive...


16 posted on 01/20/2018 8:27:03 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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Infantile Nation.  All your basement
are belong to us.

18 posted on 01/20/2018 8:44:09 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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Adulthood does not begin until 24,...

B.S.! So how do you explain democrats and liberals, for them adulthood never really begins. You can't lay a number to fit everyone. For conservatives, adulthood starts much earlier than with liberals, maybe 16 for conservatives; for liberals perhaps 40.

19 posted on 01/20/2018 8:45:42 PM PST by roadcat
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21 posted on 01/20/2018 8:48:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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I was OSUT Infantry at Benning,Airborne,RIP onto Army history at 19 and I was one of the oldest. BTW,the oldest in Ranger School was 34!...America will always breed the best that she needs to protect her and her Constitution or we will bleed trying.


23 posted on 01/20/2018 8:58:07 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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So how old do you have to be to commit adultery now?


25 posted on 01/20/2018 9:18:54 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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So, can we increase the voting age accordingly?


26 posted on 01/20/2018 9:22:07 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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The corrupt liberal courts can now lift the “privacy laws” for crimes committed to age 24, and protect the identities of ferals. The liberal utopian dream marches on.


28 posted on 01/20/2018 9:47:43 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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I feel it was BOREDOM more than anything that drove people into marriage and family in the past. There are far too many solo options for relieving boredom nowadays.


29 posted on 01/20/2018 9:52:08 PM PST by Teflonic (tt)
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I started Basic training at 17 with a parental waiver. a trained killer by 18.
Sissified lefties can’t crawl their butts out of bed and hold down a job until 25 now huh? Pathetic.


33 posted on 01/20/2018 10:23:02 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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Fine, raise the voting age...............


34 posted on 01/20/2018 10:25:25 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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