You most absolutely can

not

do this.

These kids all look like they're twelve. Twelve! And while you have no idea how old you are, you know you're definitely not twelve. Granted, there's some people here who look more like your age. Hange told you that the earliest anyone can enlist is twelve years old, but a lot of people end up joining later, due to changes in career or loss of business or anything like that.

Still, the majority look much too young. You've seen the titans, you've been outside the walls; these kids have so much life in their eyes. They don't know what's out there.

Well,

you muse to yourself as the instructor wades through the recruits, stopping to yell at most of them,

I suppose there's always the Garrison. Or if they're lucky enough, the MPs.

Hange had told you all about the ranking system and the three possible branches that you can be assigned to.