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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]
Army ROTC cadets on a field training exercise Basic course qualification requirements. A candidate for freshman and sophomore level ROTC training must: Be of good moral character; Be a citizen of the United States; Be under 35 years of age by December 31 of the year of your graduation; Be physically able to participate in the program of instruction
[152] [153] [154] The committee on the Rights of the Child has recommended that the US raise the minimum age of enlistment to 18. [152] In negotiations on the OPAC treaty during the 1990s the US joined the UK in strongly opposing a global minimum enlistment age of 18. As a consequence the treaty specified a minimum age of 16. [34]
Senior cadets between 16 and 18 years of age were attached to militia units (now known as Army reserve units), called regimental detachments, while students between 14 and 16 years of age remained as school cadets.
The most prominent concern over the years has been the minimum age for recruitment, which has been 16 for many years. [76] This has now been raised to 18 in relation to combat operations. In recent years, there have been various concerns over the techniques used in (especially) army recruitment in relation to the portrayal of such a career as ...
New cadets march during Reception Day at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., on June 27, 2016. Credit - Drew Angerer—Getty Images If you’re a member of the Society of Black ...
The Army Cadet Force (ACF), generally shortened to Army Cadets, is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. [3] Along with the Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Training Corps , the ACF make up the Community Cadet Forces .
Two West Point Cadets made history earlier this year when they became the first women to graduate from Army Ranger School. Enlistment numbers for minorities tell a similar story. In 2012, approximately 30 percent of active-duty soldiers didn't identify as white.