{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
4/6/2005 6:46:21 AM
21
Do I seem like the military type?
My friend's dad is an Army recruiter, and I showed a bit of interest in it so he took me down to the recruiter's office today. I spent a good five or six hours there, talking to different people, getting a general idea of which fields I could go into.
I took a practice ASVAB with a bunch of other prospective members. They scored between 36 and 50-something. "The test is a bit harder than the actual ASVAB, so don't sweat what you get," my recruiters told me. Taking it I wasted about five minutes on the math portions because it had been a year since I took a math course, and my brain had forgotten how to do it. Anyway, it caught on after a while and I tore right through it.
I got an 89. For those of you unfamiar with the ASVAB, a 76 or above basically qualifies you for any non-officer job out there - and whatmore this was on a "harder practice test."
I'm heading to Phoenix this weekend for my physical and the actual ASVAB test. My friend's dad will head out there with me and attempt to argue a good contract, which I have no doubt will be easy to get. I have no criminal record, I'm in great physical condition and I'll have a nice 80+ on the ASVAB.
I like the sound of, "Military Intelligence," don't you?
-
[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] impurity [b]Good God, Obbi![/b] That's how they got me! They took me down to do the ASVAB and only that. Next thing I know, I'm at MEPs all friggin' day. I took the test and my physical and picked my job. The recruiter wouldn't take me home until I signed the papers, the bastard! [b][i]RUN FOR YOU LIFE[/i][/b]! Kidding. Believe or not, I think you would do better in the military than most of the damn knuckleheads that actually do join. Just don't believe anything your recruiter tells you. ;P[/quote] I still hold my suspicions, but I generally trust these guys. They haven't [i]once[/i] tried to present me with a job they thought "I'd really like." So far they've gone entirely on the info I've given them, and tried to caution me against taking the upfront money bonus for an MOS (it's $20,000 for truck driver, for instance). They've told me up-sides and down-sides, and have generally appeared to be very honest and blunt about what each entails, and which jobs to avoid.
