TIL: the smoking age was raised to 21
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There actually used to be an exemption to the drinking age for active servicemen. Not sure if there still is.
I believe it's still there overseas to match the drinking age in the host country.
It's less a matter of the military trying to be fair and more an issue of practicality: if the servicemen can simply go off base and legally drink anywhere they want, it will just clog the military legal system up with alcohol-related charges for something that would be legal for anyone other than the US servicemen.