MALIA.
Then come by and talk. Letting minors onto this is not a decision that I'm making by myself. I'm open to what you have to say but you also have to understand that if we put you out there that's on us if something happens.
You are young. Trust me, I get it. I falsified more enlistment forms than I should probably ever own up to, so I get wanting to be out in the fight. You start fighting though, you don't stop. That's something I want to be sure you are sure about.
I live with a five foot two redhead who could kill me with her pinky, and she's only one of the many women I know who can and completely have put me in my place on more than one occasion - you being a girl has absolutely nothing to do with this.