FUN FACT: There’s some limited evidence that literacy was higher in the Legions than in the general population. Not because it was a recruitment requirement, but probably due to a mixture of the low literacy of rural areas, that almost all promotion opportunities in the Legions required literacy, and the fact that bored soldiers pass skills around almost as often as STDs.
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Everyone can still join the army though 🧐
Was turned down, can not confirm.
Long list of automatic DQs anymore.
Maybe it's harder than I've been lead to believe. I haven't actually finished an application yet. My country is low on troops tbf so that impacts it
At least in the USA, you don't have to be an exceptional specimen, but you can't have any problems which would be logistically challenging... or most mental health diagnoses.
"But isn't that just excluding the people who actually have the stable home life to have their mental health examined earlier in life rather than meaningfully improving the mental health standards of recruits?"
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Where, out of curiosity?