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United Kingdom – 18 (voluntary; age 16 with parental consent; age 17 for admission to an officer program; Nepalese citizens can join the Brigade of Gurkhas at age 17) United States – 18 (voluntary registration), 18 (voluntary service; age 17 with parental consent), 17 (compulsory militia service under 10 U.S. Code § 246) [3]
Apprentice – boy aged 16 to 18 trained in technical skills at the dockyard schools to become an artificer. Boy, as rated (after World War II known as a 'junior') – aged between 15½ and 18. On a Boy's 18th birthday he automatically became rated as an ordinary seaman and was subject to the Naval Discipline Act as applicable to adult seamen.
Military settings are characterized by elevated rates of bullying, particularly by instructors. In the UK between 2014 and 2020, for example, the army recorded 62 formal complaints of violence committed by staff against recruits at the military training centre for 16- and 17-year-old trainee soldiers, the Army Foundation College. [75]
The United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (USNSCC or NSCC) is a congressionally chartered, U.S. Navy–sponsored organization that serves to involve individuals in the sea-going military services, U.S. naval operations and training, community service, citizenship, and teach an understanding of discipline and teamwork.
You Know I'm Right: The problem I didn't consider before joining the U.S. Navy. Gannett. Don R. Haven. August 22, 2024 at 1:09 AM.
Before joining the Navy, Kohler was the son of a sharecropping dirt farmer and the fourth of 10 children. ... Now 100 years old, the veteran is believed to be one of only 16 Pearl Harbor survivors ...
Overseas: A serving member of another military can join the New Zealand Defence Force. The requirements are to be a current or recently serving (within 6–12 months) member of the UK, Australian, US or Canadian Armed Forces, have been a citizen of either the UK, Australia, US, or Canada for a minimum period of 10 years, or have been living in ...
Edwin Francis Jemison enlisted in 1861 at age 16; he was killed in 1862 at the Battle of Malvern Hill; Isidor Strauss (b. 1845} In 1861 he was elected an officer in a Georgia Military unit [20] John A Wyeth enlisted in 1861 at age 16; Sgt William T. Biedler 16 years old, of Company C, Mosby's Virginia Cavalry Regiment with flintlock musket