>>6412868I think it was kind of the point with the whole PTSD and what happens to soldiers when wars end angle Takahashi was going for at the start of the show.
Might be why they state his age during the interrogation in the first ep, Chirico seeming much older than that is a sign of the shit he's been through.
It was a fuckhuge galactic war after all. As Gotho said, they were bringing in practically in kids, who end up not knowing shit other than fighting.