Varies by which version of SF canon, really. Sort of like how Guile was allegedly in the US Army fighting in Vietnam before age 16, according to the original SF2 lore.
...which honestly seems like the sort of thing a die-hard Guile player would do. :luna-oi-shining:
Plenty conscripts for Vietnam, no need to assume they're there willingly. I still remember stories my neighbor would occasionally tell when he got drunk enough, he was conscripted and tried to get out of it but couldn't. The worst was him talking about the tube he had to shoot a toddler who was walking up to him with a grenade without the pin in, someone had turned her into a suicide bomber (almost certainly not the VC military btw). He broke down crying after that... Cancer and other complications from agent orange eventually killed him.... The empire is perfectly happy to sacrifice it's people too
The US minimum age for conscription was 18 back in the 1960s and 1970s. (It still is, but it used to be, too.) This was amended from age 18 in WWII to ages 19 to 26 by the Selective Service Act in 1948, but 18 year olds still had to register.
In (old) press releases for Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Guile is listed as being born in 1960, and allegedly fought in Vietnam alongside his buddy "Charlie." The last US troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in April of 1975. Thus, 1990s Capcom was apparently a fan of AmeriKKKan child soldiers. Regardless, the US MIC wasn't scooping up kids straight out of middle school and shipping them over to get composted by Uncle Ho.
(Note that Guile was later retconned to being a "trainee," according to the wiki.)
Edit: my source on the original 1994 stuff is an ancient Electronic Gaming Monthly article. I don't remember the issue number, but the writer and editors had a definite "wait, what?" moment when they got the character bio stuff from Capcom.
Varies by which version of SF canon, really. Sort of like how Guile was allegedly in the US Army fighting in Vietnam before age 16, according to the original SF2 lore.
...which honestly seems like the sort of thing a die-hard Guile player would do. :luna-oi-shining:
Plenty conscripts for Vietnam, no need to assume they're there willingly. I still remember stories my neighbor would occasionally tell when he got drunk enough, he was conscripted and tried to get out of it but couldn't. The worst was him talking about the tube he had to shoot a toddler who was walking up to him with a grenade without the pin in, someone had turned her into a suicide bomber (almost certainly not the VC military btw). He broke down crying after that... Cancer and other complications from agent orange eventually killed him.... The empire is perfectly happy to sacrifice it's people too
it was Biden
The US minimum age for conscription was 18 back in the 1960s and 1970s. (It still is, but it used to be, too.) This was amended from age 18 in WWII to ages 19 to 26 by the Selective Service Act in 1948, but 18 year olds still had to register.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/app/uploads/2014/03/Timeline-of-of-conscription.pdf
In (old) press releases for Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Guile is listed as being born in 1960, and allegedly fought in Vietnam alongside his buddy "Charlie." The last US troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in April of 1975. Thus, 1990s Capcom was apparently a fan of AmeriKKKan child soldiers. Regardless, the US MIC wasn't scooping up kids straight out of middle school and shipping them over to get composted by Uncle Ho.
(Note that Guile was later retconned to being a "trainee," according to the wiki.)
Edit: my source on the original 1994 stuff is an ancient Electronic Gaming Monthly article. I don't remember the issue number, but the writer and editors had a definite "wait, what?" moment when they got the character bio stuff from Capcom.