You brought up another point, JDLP, is it possible at all to "up" the ages a bit? I don't know if you mentioned it in your first post or not, but I do believe even changing them to 15 would make them a lot more used to the formal teaching of a military type of setting. I am aware some kids do crave structure but playing people so young and expecting them to have mental capacity for such hardship is a bit hard. Thoughts? If you're set on keeping their ages, I'd go along with it anyway but I thought I'd ask.