Andy Stumpf

Is that a little bit old for somebody to join the military?

Yes, and each branch is gonna have their own maximum age.

I don't even have a clue what it is, even though I think we've looked it up on episodes before.

26, I think you're still within the wheelhouse for all of the military branches.

And there are some pros and cons for sure.

We'll use bootcamp as an example.

Is your experience in boot camp, regardless of the service that you choose, going to be different than a 17 or 18-year-old kid?

Oh, yeah.

Are you going to think a lot of the things that you do there are laughable?

Yes.

Are you going to feel like you are babysitting children a lot of the time?

Oh, yes, you are.

And that's OK.

You're actually going to fall naturally into a leadership role in any branch you go into, specifically in boot camp, because of your experience in life.

So what's going to seem hard to a 17 or 18 year old is going to seem laughable to you.

What's going to seem critical to a 17 or 18-year-old, you're going to have a better context on that.

The drill instructors will probably treat you a little bit differently.

Maybe not directly in front of everybody else in that mixed company, but you can imagine or I would suspect – and this goes back to my time as being a BUDS instructor – when you want to influence the class –

There's a couple ways you can do it.

You could yell at the entire class.