and?
Leave it to you to not get it.usmarine2005 wrote:
and?
You don't have to be a genius to pull a trigger.
What is your point?
Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few marines! God has a hard-on for marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?
I remember acing all categories of the ASVAB test when I enlisted in 1990. But then I realized how easy the test has to be since it's only ensuring they don't get overly dumb people in the military. Do they still do the asvab now, or do they just ask them if they can spell their names?
I took something in HS, just to get out of class for 3 hours. Whatever that test was, I got like 97-99's in all but the engineering section. Worst mistake of my life, as I got recruiter calls all day until graduation. I didn't really know what the test was at first, which was bad. And, I was almost talked into the Amry... I'd be fucking dead right now if I didn't go to college. I graduated in May 2000 btw.IRONCHEF wrote:
I remember acing all categories of the ASVAB test when I enlisted in 1990. But then I realized how easy the test has to be since it's only ensuring they don't get overly dumb people in the military. Do they still do the asvab now, or do they just ask them if they can spell their names?
jesus if you dont like it get the fuck out already. Ive sat here reading this guys posts for awile now and all i hear is america sucks. Get the fuck out then. Assuming you do live in deleware.Ikarti wrote:
Lowering standards?
Oh boo hoo, you don't have to read my shit. You're such a good American citizen you can't even spell Delaware right.yuckfou09 wrote:
jesus if you dont like it get the fuck out already. Ive sat here reading this guys posts for awile now and all i hear is america sucks. Get the fuck out then. Assuming you do live in deleware.Ikarti wrote:
Lowering standards?
i think someone needs a chillpill, id give you karma to calm yourself but ive ran out of points, teeheeheeeIkarti wrote:
Oh boo hoo, you don't have to read my shit. You're such a good American citizen you can't even spell Delaware right.yuckfou09 wrote:
jesus if you dont like it get the fuck out already. Ive sat here reading this guys posts for awile now and all i hear is america sucks. Get the fuck out then. Assuming you do live in deleware.Ikarti wrote:
Lowering standards?
Try keeping a LEVEL head in these forums please. It really is pathetic, you are supposed to be SERIOUS here, and all you can do is hurl stupid insults at each other.
IT STOPS NOW
IT STOPS NOW
Meh, I'm surprised you even need a high school diploma to get it.
i took it and qualified for special forces but im just gonna go in the signal corps. Ive been outa high school for a couple years so it was like riding a bike. Took me a sec to put 1+1 together. HA
why is this such a shock. our country has been doing worse things than this get recruits for a long time. if i had more time i would find the article about all the recruiting in the inner cities. personally i liked the one about the recruiters who came to school with the pimped out Humvee. i love my country and i tried going into ocs, unfortunately my dependency on adderall as well as my bum knee did get me in, so please don't call me unamerican or anything like that
It's ok, I don't think not serving in the armed forces makes you un American. Otherwise damn near most of the poulation would be un american. Are you saying that if you don't attempt to join the army that makes you un American?
For all of you that don't think this is a big idea, recruiting sub-standard soldiers leads to far more problems down the road, especially if well qualified personnel choose not to reenlist.
http://www.slate.com/id/2133908/
http://www.slate.com/id/2133908/
Here's the RAND report.The evidence is overwhelming. Take tank gunners. You wouldn't think intelligence would have much effect on the ability to shoot straight, but apparently it does. Replacing a gunner who'd scored Category IV on the aptitude test (ranking in the 10-30 percentile) with one who'd scored Category IIIA (50-64 percentile) improved the chances of hitting targets by 34 percent. (For more on the meaning of the test scores, click here(pdf).)
In another study cited by the RAND report, 84 three-man teams from the Army's active-duty signal battalions were given the task of making a communications system operational. Teams consisting of Category IIIA personnel had a 67 percent chance of succeeding. Those consisting of Category IIIB (who'd ranked in the 31-49 percentile on the aptitude test) had a 47 percent chance. Those with Category IV personnel had only a 29 percent chance.
The same study of signal battalions took soldiers who had just taken advanced individual training courses and asked them to troubleshoot a faulty piece of communications gear. They passed if they were able to identify at least two technical problems. Smarts trumped training. Among those who had scored Category I on the aptitude test (in the 93-99 percentile), 97 percent passed. Among those who'd scored Category II (in the 65-92 percentile), 78 percent passed. Category IIIA: 60 percent passed. Category IIIB: 43 percent passed. Category IV: a mere 25 percent passed.
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Smarter also turns out to be cheaper. One study examined how many Patriot missiles various Army air-defense units had to fire in order to destroy 10 targets. Units with Category I personnel had to fire 20 missiles. Those with Category II had to fire 21 missiles. Category IIIA: 22. Category IIIB: 23. Category IV: 24 missiles. In other words, to perform the same task, Category IV units chewed up 20 percent more hardware than Category I units. For this particular task, since each Patriot missile costs about $2 million, they also chewed up $8 million more of the Army's procurement budget.
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=47393zimmer92 wrote:
Try keeping a LEVEL head in these forums please. It really is pathetic, you are supposed to be SERIOUS here, and all you can do is hurl stupid insults at each other.
IT STOPS NOW
The army will pay for their edcuatinion.
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