"I joined the military as soon as I reasonably could, which was sixteen. Usually it's eighteen but I did some shit that let me do it earlier. I had to finish school first though." He's not going to bore the poor man with the bureaucratic details of what a child has to do in order to be seen as an adult in the world he's from, that sounds like some kinda torture.

"So that's a little more than twenty years of fightin'."