FALSE! You can be sent at 17 with parental consent so long as you are 18 when you graduate Basic Training.

Close, you can be 16 to be in the reserves (but many recruiting centers say 17 for some reasons). But I believe you can't be deployed until you're 18.

It was like that for Marine Corps boot camp. But that makes sense since people can get deployed only 2 months after its over.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were talking about Canada still. :P

Canada has a military?

Joking of course, Canada's cool.

Thanks bro :p. I'm assuming you're an 'merican?

Nah, I'm an American. It's like being a 'merican, except I'm in college. I'm really a lot more like a Canadian, though. My friends who've been to Canada say that I seem like I fit there more so than here.

Well I don't judge. I like most of the americans I've met. So you like maple syrup and beer?

I don't really drink, but I love syrup. In fact I go to Cracker Barrel (home cooking restaurant, not just a gathering place for white people) just for their tiny syrup bottles.

I love you

I love you as well, but why do you say that?

Because being french canadien, maple syrup is as much in our culture as the desire to separate ;)

To separate what?

On two occasions, Quebec has voted to separate from the rest of Canada. The first vote was lost by a lot, but the second one was only lost by 0.1%. So Canada was damn close to losing a province. The ongoing joke in Canada is that all people from Quebec want to separate.

Oh, ok. I'm sorry, I probably should have known that. I thought you were making a joke about cutting down trees. It's a joke around here, primarily because of the Wolverine movie, that lumber is Canada's main industry.

Meh, I don't know that much about about what goes on down south over there, so it's okay.

Typically. Sorry, I ran out of reply spaces.

To put in in a word; nothing, unless you go even farther south. Then there's the drug industry.

no news is good news

I stand corrected. thanks man

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