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Hitler Youth vibes. Europe/UK is seriously not okay right now jesus.
Its been around for a while, but I can see where you're coming from and do think its a weird tradition to impress onto young kids
I mean, it's just ROTC, right? (Not that that makes it better, ROTC is also very Hitler Youth.) I guess I'm just saying, this post is like "here's a weird thing Britain does", and I'm like "we have that in the US too".
Is that for 15 year olds too?
That might be the JROTC
I think so? Maybe it's only in college (university), but I think people in high school do ROTC as well. I don't really know, I went to a weird high school and don't have any connections to the military.
Army Cadets were around at least 40 years ago. Definitely not just a recent thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadets_(youth_program)