â Only ticks that are attached and have finished feeding or are near the end of their meal can transmit Lyme disease. After arriving on the skin, the tick that spreads Lyme disease usually takes 24 hours before feeding begins. â Even if a tick is attached, it must have taken a blood meal to transmit Lyme disease.
All this in a period when the Air Force is the smallest and oldest since its inception in 1947. Of its roughly 5,000 aircraft, the average age is twenty-five years old. Todayâs Air Force is already struggling, and tomorrowâs is entirely at risk.
On its website, the U.S. Navy doesn't provide information about the average enlistment age. It notes that you can join from ages 17 through 34. The U.S. Air Force Personnel Center website doesn't provide an enlistment age average, but it does note that age 29 is the average age of its enlisted force, as of 2013.