There is a large significant difference between the lives of adolescences in the military and civilians. In the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one for everyone. While in the United States military the legal drinking age is twenty one except when stationed in countries with a lower drinking age, like Korea, where the legal age is twenty. I feel the personnel in the military should be able to consume alcoholic beverages at the age of eighteen. While in the military a person is held to higher standards which means that they are subject to tougher and stricter laws. These laws fall under the UCMJ, which is the uniformed code of military justice. For every state and federal law in the U.S. there is an even stricter law for individuals in the military. For instance in the military if a person committed adultery he or she would be punished harshly. The maximum punishment for this act is reduction in rank and dishonorably discharged. This compared to the punishment of our commander and chief of the military is so contradicting. The only punishment that President Clinton received was a blemished record.

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I do feel that at the age of seventeen an individual in the military should not be able to drink. The reason I feel that they should not be able to drink at seventeen is because at that age they are not allowed to join the military on their own. A seventeen-year-old person must have their parents sign a form that gives them permission to join the military. I feel if you need your parents to consent to join the military than you need there consent to consume alcoholic beverages. Also there are the health risks of consuming alcohol from an early age. Drinking from an earlier age will increase the probability of having horrible health problems caused by consuming alcohol.

One of the most common sense reasons the legal age in the military should be eighteen is the same reason that non-military people participate in underage drinking. That reason is that they are going to do it any way. I feel if these people are put in a situation that makes it seem like it’s alright, then make it alright to drink at the age of eighteen. In American society we stress certain things that are not good for us. When we put an emphasis on things that are wrong, it only fuels curiosity and rebel like behavior. In other cultures drinking is not emphasized negatively as much as i

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