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A guy I work with claimed he was trying to get into the Army earlier this year but he failed his AVSFAB. Twice. Are those tests pass/fail? If so, how dumb do you have to be to fail it twice? I hope this doesn't come across as insulting.
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Nov 7, 2015 04:57
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They're not pass/fail, and you have to be really, really dumb. Like velcro shoes dumb.
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Nov 7, 2015 05:02
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Yaws posted:A guy I work with claimed he was trying to get into the Army earlier this year but he failed his AVSFAB. Twice. Are those tests pass/fail? If so, how dumb do you have to be to fail it twice? My wife has a cousin who failed yet got wavered in around 2008 or so. He got assigned to a unit as what he explained as an assistant mortar man on a Stryker. He got stuck painting rocks white on a base on Hawaii for his entire contract so things worked out for him I guess.
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Nov 7, 2015 05:28
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LingcodKilla posted:My wife has a cousin who failed yet got wavered in around 2008 or so. He got assigned to a unit as what he explained as an assistant mortar man on a Stryker. He got stuck painting rocks white on a base on Hawaii for his entire contract so things worked out for him I guess. the surge was so bad also god drat rock painting mos would've been a good way to spend 6 years
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Nov 7, 2015 08:43
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Yaws posted:A guy I work with claimed he was trying to get into the Army earlier this year but he failed his AVSFAB. Twice. Are those tests pass/fail? If so, how dumb do you have to be to fail it twice? The ASVAB scoring system is based on your results vs other peoples results. For instance, if you get a 77, that means you score better than 77 out of every 100 people who take the test. The military has work for people who score clear down in the 20's and 30's iirc, so you've got to be impressively dumb to not qualify. But to be fair, he may have been looking at a specific job with a high requirement for an ASVAB score, and not been able to meet that cut. Or he could be lying and he actually is afraid or too lazy to enlist, but thinks it makes him look cool that he would've joined if not for getting screwed because of x reason.
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Nov 7, 2015 14:05
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the surge was so bad Anywhere but Hawaii or Alaska, I'd probably just have accepted a general under honorable after about a year of that. Like painting rocks in bumfuck, Kansas would be hell on earth.
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Nov 7, 2015 14:08
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Volkerball posted:The ASVAB scoring system is based on your results vs other peoples results. For instance, if you get a 77, that means you score better than 77 out of every 100 people who take the test. The military has work for people who score clear down in the 20's and 30's iirc, so you've got to be impressively dumb to not qualify. But to be fair, he may have been looking at a specific job with a high requirement for an ASVAB score, and not been able to meet that cut. Yeah, he just wanted to be infantry so him failing seemed to be an impressive feat.
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Nov 7, 2015 15:34
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Yaws posted:Yeah, he just wanted to be infantry so him failing seemed to be an impressive feat. I put a Brazilian guy in the Marines who scored an 18 on the ASVAB. The guy only spoke Portuguese and a little Spanish. It was a big waiver but it happened. I saw Army recruiters do similar with waivers. Your buddy has to be like mouth breathing stupid to score so low that the Army won't take him.
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Nov 7, 2015 15:38
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Ive seen people score in the single digits before ahaha
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Nov 7, 2015 18:37
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:I put a Brazilian guy in the Marines who scored an 18 on the ASVAB. The guy only spoke Portuguese and a little Spanish. It was a big waiver but it happened. I saw Army recruiters do similar with waivers. Your buddy has to be like mouth breathing stupid to score so low that the Army won't take him. Someone post a clip of the Brazilian guy in Generation Kill screaming in Portuguese over the radio Also there was someone in my ROTC class who wasn't able to contract freshman year because she couldn't pass the AFOQT. Not like "wasn't competitive for pilot" or whatever, she literally couldn't meet the minimum for "academic aptitude," which is something insanely low, like 10 or 15 iirc. And AFOQT is based on the same scoring principle as the ASVAB as far as percentile based.
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Nov 7, 2015 22:43
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Zetta_Slow posted:The diagnosis was in early 2012/2013 due to me starting at a university, having issues with the giant class sizes Just out of curiosity about these two points, is this something that is still a problem with you? Cause no joke you're going to spend months sleeping in a totally open bay with 59 of your closest buddies all snoring away and furiously masturbating in the shared bathroom stall then walking around you and counting the weapons hung up on the end of your bed while you sleep. Then if you deploy there's a more than fair chance you'll end up living/sleeping in a gently caress-off huge tent with two to three times that many other people where all you have is part of a bunkbed and a teensy little locker, both of which are crammed full of gear and almost nothing of yours personally. You probably won't get electrocuted when you walk down the block to the shower that 30 other guys are using at the same time. Probably, I think they fixed most of those. That is where you will LIVE, where you go for stuff like training or to do your job will be much, much bigger crowds.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:27
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if you have any sort of social anxiety at all I don't the military is a place for you.
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Nov 8, 2015 03:29
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:if you have any sort of social anxiety at all I don't the military is a place for you. Or he could become a linguist and hang out with nothing but people with various degrees of social anxiety. Don't actually do that.
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Nov 8, 2015 05:59
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LingcodKilla posted:My wife has a cousin who failed yet got wavered in around 2008 or so. He got assigned to a unit as what he explained as an assistant mortar man on a Stryker. He got stuck painting rocks white on a base on Hawaii for his entire contract so things worked out for him I guess. So painting rocks is a no-joke thing, huh? I always thought it was urban legend / boot hazing a la glowstick batteries or PRC-E9. 
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Nov 8, 2015 11:57
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Kandak Sayaqa posted:So painting rocks is a no-joke thing, huh? I always thought it was urban legend / boot hazing a la glowstick batteries or PRC-E9. I narrowly avoided a rock painting detail in AIT, but saw it happen firsthand.
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Nov 8, 2015 12:15
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You should join if you want to drive a truck that gets 1 gallon per mile of jet fuel around picking up about 100 pounds of hedge clippings every day.
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Nov 8, 2015 14:17
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Kandak Sayaqa posted:So painting rocks is a no-joke thing, huh? I always thought it was urban legend / boot hazing a la glowstick batteries or PRC-E9. Yeah apparently some base in Hawaii has small white boulders on the side of the road to reflect light at night. So it wasn't totally pointless...
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Nov 8, 2015 14:34
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I forgot the name of our rock. It was a huge heavy fucker, and when you were dumb you had to paint it intricately with American flags and poo poo and then carry it with you everywhere you went.
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Nov 8, 2015 16:51
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Please refer to new thread on this subject: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750679 V/R Nostalgia4Infinity
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