minte men were self trained and convinyent in the amercan revoutouin becace they acted fast and were all ways in the battel acton the mintemen among the first to fight pahlrever was a mintemen all of the members of the minitmen had to be 30 or yonger mitlta was how the minitmen grow becacse most of the minitemen were part of mitlta too and were given alot of traning brish in battle were ther fighting with mitlta or minit men most battels they fhgot with both mite men was formed when britsh started  growing stronger the wepon minte men would most likely use was a pistel sord and a musket rifel there is a missel named after them and sevrel other things minte men were fist only in macadoshes very soon it moved to other states and became what they are today minetmen