"You could say that," Nida admitted with a shrug as he flopped down onto his bed. "Mostly the standard 'you're too young for x, oh woe is you for having to have done y, children should never z' stuff. At least back home I could flash my credentials and people would shut up."

You had to respect what a SeeD could do. Here people could just bemoan what terrible things 'children' ended up having to do.