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Most child recruits were enlisted for the army, where 30% of the intake in the year 2021-2022 was aged under 18; more new soldiers were 16 than any other age. [241] Army recruits aged between 16 and 17.5 train initially at the Army Foundation College, a military training centre dedicated to the age group.
Mary Edwards Wertsch (born Mary Brightwell Edwards on July 23, 1951) is an author, journalist, independent publisher, and expert on the subculture of American military brats. [citation needed] She wrote the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress.
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The Vietnam War is often regarded as a low point in the Army's record due to the extensive use of drafted enlisted personnel versus mobilization of Army Reserve and Army National Guard personnel, the unpopularity of the war with the American public, and frustrating restrictions placed on the Army by U.S. political leaders (i.e., no invasion of ...
Cambodia's state armed forces also recruited children widely. Throughout the 1990s the army was recruiting children from the age of 10 and using them in armed conflict, mainly as porters and spies, and also as combatants. [21] Four percent of the army were children, according to an estimate in the Cambodia Daily. [85]
In November 1942 age ranges were put in place: school of military support, 12 to 15 years; 16–18 years also in military support, Minor sabotage, Operation N, liaison office and reconnaissance; older had military training and joined Home Army. [26] There were few well-known children aged below 14 who took part in military fights.
A common pattern in these subcultures is a heavy childhood and adolescent immersion in military culture to the point of marginalizing (or having significant feelings of difference in relation to) one's national civilian culture. [2] [4] [5] [7] This is characterized by a strong identification with military culture rather than civilian culture.
James Edward Moore Jr. (28 June 1931 – 30 January 1999) was a United States Army three-star general who served in the Vietnam War.A 1954 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Moore served in Vietnam as the S-3 (operations officer) of the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and the commander of the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry.