I see things are very different where you came from.

Nah, tactical recovery is more about open-field combat, there, they'd be made into targets if they stuck to the ground.
And they don't get support in the academy.

Crawling allows you to move easily in small spaces, it makes perfect sense to send them at such an age.

But with proper support of course.

Simple: I didn't go to school in the Ohirus Sector.
Seriously. There, they expect you to perform a Risk Level 8 tactical recovery mission before you learn to walk!

How did you move past second grade?

Sorry, I still haven't studied Quantum Mechanics and its effects on time.

That's common knowledge.

It was quite the spectacle... assuming you think time is reciprocal, and that all futures can be pasts and vice versa.

Man, I always miss out the good stuff...

Ever since they united to take down an opium addicted Duke Nukem in the Global Reunium Crisis of 2048.