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Bullshit. Older recruits can't move as well as younger ones. Older recruits are more likely to sprain an ankle and actually be laid up and immobile. Older recruits need more recuperation between fights/battles/whatever.
Older recruits are statistically likely to just be cannon fodder. Not everyone can be an officer, or intelligence. The mill must have its grist.
I believe it, as far as it goes.
I doubt they stay leaps and bounds ahead of the kids once they reach basic, to say nothing of how many would wash out from a minor injury that a young guy would just ignore and power through.
100% this though. They can probably push them through the system faster because they'll never be expected to do anything sophisticated and it'd be a waste of resources pouring a full career-starter's training into a guy who's not gonna make it (or has at most like 10 service years left in them compared to the potential of a 19 year old.)
Also, we have highly advanced technology an infinite number of random with guns will not help you win a war anymore. It actually didn't even really help last time we tried. In that most stuff is gonna be like wearing high vis and driving trucks full of equipment to CIA contractors an adult is just as good as the 18 year old children we normally use