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Pete
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I never said AFQT, I made a general statement. AFQT is basically an composite score of the 8 ASVAB areas to gain entry. During my short stint in the recruiting world the score for the Navy was 31 and we sent 50% of the people who fell below that down the hall to the Army who had a min AFQT of 25 at that time, the other 50% were too stupid to even reffer to another branch.itsbob said:
Scores required for an MOs/Rating are made up of composites of different areas of the 8 in the ASVAB. Comparing a linguist who has to score a 95 in science, math and reading comp, to a infantryman who has to score a 90 in arithmetic and auto shop is like comparing apples and oranges.
I am not saying that all screwed the pooch on test day and that is why they are infantry, but I aint buying that all infantrymen are flag waving rocket scientists who chose that job either. I do not doubt that many of these people are great, but like the Navy in the last few years I was in there are a bunch I wished I could make disappear because they we neither patriotic, hard working, loyal or dedicated. Lyndie Englund and that merry batch of trolls are prime examples. The military, regardless of branch is purely a microcosm of society that it draws from.
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Pete
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This reminds me of a story.......pull up a chair. I had just made Chief and was out in Eagan, MN at Lockheed for meetings. Lockheed Eagan did work for all branches and in the smoking area that day I saw an Army captain looking over at me. On the next smoke break he finally had enough and came over and asked me what I was while he looked at my collar devises. I told him I was "a Chief", he said "what is that" (meaning what would be my equivalent in the Army) I said "a Navy Chief", still not getting it he said "If you were in the Army what would you be?" I looked at him with all seriousness and said, "Well, by now I would probably be at least a Brigadier General."
The whole place busted up laughing.
The whole place busted up laughing.
itsbob
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By 1995 the opposite was true.. NOBODY with less then a 50 AFQT could get in the Army PERIOD.. we sent all those guys to the Navy or the Marines.. We went two or three years with 100% IIIA, then they opened up limited IIIB.Pete said:
And how many, in your years of recruiting, that scored over a 50 AFQT had line scores less then 100??
Every October we would get the USAREC "quota" for each test category, and were VERY limted on how many CAT-IV(if any), III-B and Non Grad III-A's that we could write nationally for the year, most years it was ZERO.. after that quota was gone (usually within two weeks) they shut us off, and were done until the next October.
Now what we did with all those others, to include those with less then gleaming criminal records, was send them to the Guard & Reserve (the Reserve recruiter DID work out of the Army office).. All of their standards were negotiable, and they could just about put anybody in that could inhale 3 times in a row without choking..
