Perhaps some grace could be extended to moments of poor character exhibited by high schoolers prior to their accession to service.
There is plenty I did as a teenage minor that would have been frowned upon after my accession into the service.
There is a reason we teach the importance of core values in military training. They are not necessarily present before accession. As mentioned here by others, I also knew plenty of honorable and upstanding military members (including in the Marine Corps) during my junior enlisted years that struggled with the prior-service drug use question. I never questioned their integrity post-accession-- regardless of how they may have behaved prior to arriving at Basic.
There is plenty I did as a teenage minor that would have been frowned upon after my accession into the service.
There is a reason we teach the importance of core values in military training. They are not necessarily present before accession. As mentioned here by others, I also knew plenty of honorable and upstanding military members (including in the Marine Corps) during my junior enlisted years that struggled with the prior-service drug use question. I never questioned their integrity post-accession-- regardless of how they may have behaved prior to arriving at Basic.