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You know, as far as the elderly, it depends on the person. If you get a feisty woman like my mother who has a lot of (albeit dated) combat experience, she could carry out patrols and missions as a normal team member.

Or Mike Marsh, my former neighbor, who has WWII experience in tanks as well as the ability to make just about anything, and has given be a lot of ideas for keeping up and increasing the value of my own home and helped me with some failures with electricity, plumbing, etc. (Unfortunately, he passed away in 2015 -- a huge loss to the world.) He would be useful as a general fix-it guy who also knows how to operate things like tractors and old armored vehicles and can shoot if necessary. He was in as good shape as I was when I left the Army. (His war stories were priceless, and he's one of two people who were vets who sat me down and talked to me about what I might be getting myself into when I joined ROTC.)