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BlackBaton wrote: LOL, Raiden could have been six years old in 1989. I doubt he became platoon captain right away.

It ended in 1996, and Solidus made it clear that it was in the 1980s that he had fought in it. Plus, the DGN mentioned that he became 10 years old in 1990 (and seeing how Kojima considered the DGN canon enough to include it into the Legacy Collection specifically to give players a chance to see the story of MGS2 if they couldn't actually beat the game itself due to its archaic design, it counts).