Originally Posted by Rochard

This is one very confused kid who should not have been working with classified materials. The day and age not allowing gays to handle classified materials or working in intelligence is long gone, but we shouldn't be allowing "young kids" to handles such stuff. This should be officers only, and perhaps only above the age of thirty.

I'm not saying the kid wasn't worthy, but the military has a long history of putting a lot of faith and trust in young kids. Handing a seventeen year old a machine gun isn't the brightest idea in the world.