 However, even after that, and even during marriage and until about the age of 30, they would spend most of their day in the barracks with their unit.Military duty lasted until the 60th year, but there are recorded cases of older people participating in campaigns in times of crisis.Throughout their adult lives, the "Spartiates" continued to be subject to a training regime so strict that, as Plutarch says, "... they were the only men in the world with whom war brought a respite in the training for war."