Uncle Sam wants you – even if you’re 42 years old
By Rick MazeTimes staff writer
The Defense Department quietly asked Congress on Monday to raise the maximum age for military recruits to 42 for all branches of the service….
Does it matter what you wrote on your SS registration all those long years ago? Are they still mad? None of this matters until the draft is reinstated, but still, yikes.
Gee, all of a sudden the thought that I’ll be 50 in 7 1/2 years doesn’t seem so bad.
No that anyone is counting…
You are 6 mos from being out of range, and only 1.5 from not being 40. Think of it like that. 50 is in the unforeseeable, and thus not worth contemplating, future. Dammit.