The Attack on Titan Military Recruitment System(Virgin Thought)

     Welcome readers to the very first Virgin Thought post! This post will replace the weekly theory post but I will be talking about the much loved topic of Attack on Titan, well the military actually.... Anyways I will be explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the military recruitment system and will also give my thoughts on how it came to be.

     In episode two Eren declared that once he is old enough he will sign up for the military and join the Scout Regiment, I estimated that Eren was thirteen years old when he joined the military and graduated at the age of 16. This means that the current military uses a large amount of child soldiers to fill the ranks, starting training at the age of 13 is a very affective way to brainwash the recruits and produce highly loyal soldiers who only know life in the military which would produce highly skilled and experienced soldiers by the age of 20. The military would be able to have a large amount of manpower and expendable soldiers for suicide missions, this encourages the use of espionage and deep territory scouting missions. The way that the graduation system is setup also generates a large amount of manpower, since the military police is based within the inner most walls and only the top ten recruits can join the military police, the recruits will be despite to join the military police and train their hardest so they can join the military police and get away from the fighting. This system lures people into joining the military and also produces highly skilled and professional soldiers in all three regiments, even at the expense of the top ten recruits. This system also produces a great amount of corruption and low moral for early recruits, unless of course they have someone like Eren in the group who motivates people and raises the morale of his fellow soldiers.

     All in all this system is extremely powerful and now I shall explain how I believe this system came to be, during the early years of the wall everyone was probably trying to get away from the Titans and the outer walls due to stress and trauma, the morale would be low and the general population would be despite for an escape. The military would have introduced this system to have a large flood of man power who are willing to go through anything to join the military police, the military would have also been in shock after the world's known population went from 6.8 Billion to 1.2 Million so the military would be crippled and demanding more highly trained soldiers to make up for the lack of numbers. They would have introduced a recruitment system that recruited soldiers as children and trained them until they were at an expectable age for combat. These facts generated my theory and I also believe that the current recruitment system is actually a very vital part of humanity's survival and is also the most affective system for the small population of people. I hope you enjoyed my very first virgin thought and feel free to express your own thoughts and recommendations in the comments!