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Old 07-30-2008, 11:27 PM
Elephant Walk Elephant Walk is offline
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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel View Post
We've pledged some guys who just got back from the sandbox, but if you're older than say 22-24 there is going to be a clear disadvantage a lot of houses don't want to pledge guys older than almost everyone in the house.
This is sort of what I was thinking.

21 isn't so bad, but when you're far older than your pledge trainers? I'd just have a problem going to Iraq and then having to listen to some asshole yell at me whose younger.
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