Watchmen is so good because one of the framing devices into the lore of this world is the tell-all autobiography of the first Nite-Owl and it's basically him going “it was all so very VERY stupid, what were we thinking!?”
“Is Scott old coded”
He’s been in the trenches fighting as the frontline commander for a entire species, has two kids, one who is technically biologically older than him, another from a completely separate timeline who's around his age, and a grandkid.
Yes yes he is.
Dog, Ben is DESTINED to outlive everyone he ever loves (except Franklin) because the only time he ages is one week a year when he gets to be normal again.