How old were you when you enlisted?

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Posted: 3/15/2006 2:14:17 PM EDT

I was 17 1/2 and just finished High School and my parents signed for me.
Went USAF as I always liked airplanes. I've been working in the air transportation
industry for over 36 years. Still like airplanes....hehe...

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:15:44 PM EDT

[#1]

I turned 18 in Basic Training.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:16:00 PM EDT

[#2]

signed up for DEP the day I turned 17.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:16:38 PM EDT

[#3]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:19:06 PM EDT

[#4]

29 ARMY

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:21:54 PM EDT

[#5]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:22:13 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
17

me too.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:23:29 PM EDT

[#7]

17, but had just 18 before I left for basic.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:24:34 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:24:37 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
signed up for DEP the day I turned 17.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:24:49 PM EDT

[#10]

Delayed Entry Program at 17 years old for the Marine Corps.

RW3

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:25:23 PM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:25:27 PM EDT

[#12]

was in dep when I was 17, enlisted the day after I graduated highschool and I was 18

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:30:03 PM EDT

[#13]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:34:30 PM EDT

[#14]

I enlisted in the DEP as soon as my junior year of high school ended. I was 17 1/2.

Left for boot camp 2 days after I graduated.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:35:27 PM EDT

[#15]

Turned 19 the day I went to MEPS.

USAF

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:36:22 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
20

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:36:26 PM EDT

[#17]

I went Army, parents signed for me at 17. Was in basic at 18. Celebrated my 19th b-day in Germany. I turn 40 this summer.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:39:31 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
I turned 18 in Basic Training.

+1 My Dad mailed me a birthday card and signed it "Well now at least you don't have to worry about finding someplace to live"

We get along much better now.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:40:01 PM EDT

[#19]

I hadn't been 18 for a month when I left for Army Basic.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:40:19 PM EDT

[#20]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:41:39 PM EDT

[#21]

Enlisted at 18 on Aug, 31 1984, started OSUT Oct. 31, 1984 ARMY

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:41:46 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:42:16 PM EDT

[#23]

just turned 19 in 1981, USMC

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:45:35 PM EDT

[#24]

21 in 2000 USMC

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:48:34 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
signed up for DEP the day I turned 17.

+1

I graduated early from high school. Went to Parris Island 3 days later. Turned 18 on a 10 mile hump at Camp Lejune...I think it was a 10 mile hump. Don't remember exactly.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:50:17 PM EDT

[#26]

18. Just graduated HS and went to sign up. DEP got me in 3 months later.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:51:54 PM EDT

[#27]

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:02:21 PM EDT

[#28]

DEP when i was 16 and enlisted when i was 17.

This occurred becuase i graduated high school a year early and started 1st grade early.

What can i say; i have always been a go go go cant wait for a damn thing kinda guy.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:04:45 PM EDT

[#29]

28

L

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:06:36 PM EDT

[#30]

I was 18 when I signed the papers and shipped off to MCRD San Diego. Ooorah! Semper Fi!

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:14:01 PM EDT

[#31]

for all those who enlisted in their late 20's, was it weird at all being in basic training with a bunch of kids less than 2/3rds your age?

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:16:38 PM EDT

[#32]

17

and not early enough

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:26:10 PM EDT

[#33]

Signed up at 17 (my Dad didn't want to sign, but he did) and was at Parris Island at 18.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:26:41 PM EDT

[#34]

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:29:19 PM EDT

[#35]

18.

Went to a semester of college while in the DEP, then left for Boot.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:30:38 PM EDT

[#36]

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:30:45 PM EDT

[#37]

23. The breakup of ATT helped me "redefine" my career goals.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:32:34 PM EDT

[#38]

I was 18 when I signed up in the Marine Corps

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:33:49 PM EDT

[#39]

Delayed Entry Program and was in bootcamp just after my 17th Birthday.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:37:43 PM EDT

[#40]

17 years plus 28 days, though I did 7 months in DEP. I did Basic Training, AIT, a two years in Germany, and I still couldn't drink (legally) when I came back to the States.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:38:54 PM EDT

[#41]

18, graduated HS on a Friday was enrolled @ The Benning School for Boys that Monday. I was DEP, just waiting to graduate.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:40:44 PM EDT

[#42]

21 I was the old man in my flight.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:50:36 PM EDT

[#43]

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:53:10 PM EDT

[#44]

I turned 17 on Saturday, was at MEPs on Monday, graduated from high school 7 months later, on a Friday...left for Benning on Monday. That was the Guard. I went Active 1.5 years later (right after I turned 19)

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:55:15 PM EDT

[#45]

18. Turned 19 in basic at Lackland back in '87

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:59:54 PM EDT

[#46]

Did a year in the DEP, graduated on a Wednesday , put my feet on the paint Monday....Parris Island, SC....

Posted: 3/15/2006 4:04:17 PM EDT

[#47]

25- I listened to my recruiter when he told me to start running at the local track. When we did our PT test at the end of BMTS at Lackland I drug an 18 y/o the last lap and a half on the track. Dumbass flunked outta tech school anyway 3 weeks later.

Posted: 3/15/2006 4:07:26 PM EDT

[#48]

Posted: 3/15/2006 4:51:11 PM EDT

[#49]

18

Max

Posted: 3/15/2006 4:54:20 PM EDT

[#50]

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