Hoorah Revdisk. Similar experience. I was 19 and was trusted to drive a $1.5 Billion dollar ship with 3,000 people on board and how knows how much worth of helicopters, jet fighters and tanks and qualified with half a dozen different weapons, including Expert Pistol Shot, but I couldn't go to the base bar or buy so much as a target pistol. And here's a real topper, the day we got a new sailor on board the Iwo the Captain ordered all the smokes and snuff taken out of the shipboard vending machines, because this one sailor out of 1,328 was 17 years old.