Military recruitment is a long-term task.
Seventeen to twenty-three is the prime age range for recruitment, as their bodies are still capable of improvement, their potential is eager to be developed, and they haven't fully settled into their final form.
Military training is grueling and exceptional.
In fact, Roman's seven thousand veterans were all in their youth, at the peak of their physical capabilities.
The most notable aspect was their ability to endure the high-intensity military training.
Without some potential, if their bodies were subjected to such strain, most people couldn't withstand it.
In the long run, either they'd be dead or disabled.
Therefore, as soon as Jet saw some newly enlisted soldiers who couldn't make it, he'd give them a severance payment to let them return to farming.
It would be unwise to let those labor forces be depleted by training.
Did everything end with just the smelting of the military furnace?
