I joined and a lot of the people from conservative states said that they had a day in high school where they were mandated to take the asvab. I’m originally from CA and had never heard that, I basically had zero idea of anything about entrance requirements for the military until I walked into the recruiters office for the first time. Pretty crazy.
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 10 months ago
At my school they went for everyone who scored high on the asvsb, act or sat. Great way to pay for college.
Klystron@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Missouri is where I grew up. It was more blue back then. The city I lived in was a Conservative democrat city.
At the top we were in the too high schools in the nation. I joined for college money along with several of my peers.
It was good for me. I credit my time in the army for my success in life.
Asvab was “mandatory” junior year
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Grew up in MT in a town with a base. Parents were teachers and the kept me out of school the day of the ASVAB.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
I had pretty good grades…took the ASVAB just to get out of English class (it was optional).
Got so many calls from recruiters because apparently I had gotten a really good score on the ASVAB, but it was early 2002 and I had absolutely no intention of enlisting. In retrospect I probably would’ve never seen combat and it probably would’ve been “better” for me in a lot of ways, but I have always been a liberal pacifist and it wouldn’t have jived well with me.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Less than ten percent of personnel are even trained for combat as part of their jobs, of that ten percent only ten percent see combat for a total of 1% of military members.
So unless you’re infantry or special operations, it’s basically all just administrative and maintenance work.
Not that it matters to you now, but that’s the reality. Most people are just doing regular jobs on a 9-5 schedule, it just happens to be in uniform.