It used to be a score under 50 required a waiver of competency. The navy no longer requires a ged or hs diploma to join, and have expunged fitness scores to retain recruits.
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The military has, for more than a century, utilized standardized aptitude testing and IQ tests because they know damn well that below a certain point a soldier is more a a liability than an asset. And they know no amount of training will change this. I believe that there is a law that prohibits inducting anyone with an IQ below 82. Of course they don't IQ test anymore. This will be a disaster.
Edit: Double checked my statement and the law bit seems incorrect. I got this from J Peterson ("fact checkers" did the 'he is essentially but not technically correct bit'). His point that below a certain point of intelligence the military knows from long experience that such people are not useful and probably damaging still stands.
There's no way they could meet their diversity quotas if this was strictly enforced.
If I had to guess, the average black soldier probably has a higher IQ than the average black civilian.
I'd say it's almost guaranteed. They are (or were) selecting the most intelligent blacks that try to enlist, so the higher IQ ones are definitely over represented.
No, definitely not.
that was probably true in the before DEI era. IQ tests were banned long before the DEI era too, and for the same reasons.
Their recruitment numbers must be alot worse than they'll admit to if they're jumping through hoops this badly.
Uh... What.
You could guess randomly and get higher than that. To get lower than a fifty you need to be genuinely stupid. I took my asvab hung over and got a 99 with a GT of 160.
Friend of mine did recruiter duty for awhile and there was a girl that kept taking the test and couldn't get anywhere close to whatever the minimum navy score was. She barely qualified for the army but only wanted to go navy.
My friend fired up a practice test and put C for every answer. Realized that would probably give her enough right answers to qualify. Told her this and sure enough she just managed to reach the min score.
When I was getting out I Christmas treed my advancement exam, caught shit from my command, not because I did the worst, but because they realized I Christmas treed the answers
*forgot to add, 3 people still managed to do worse than me
I got a 94 hung over and offered afit, nuke and is, their faces when I turned it all down to skip the waitlist was hilarious.
I just asked the recruiter which one had the biggest signing bonus.
… so that was nuke, right? Funny how this community exists and how concentrated factors are here…
Nuke had a 20k signing bonus back in the day when I was in, not sure if it’s changed since then.
Army not Navy. It was Satcomm. 80k.
You would almost have to try to get a 50
I met 2 Seabees who were waivers at 45~ asvabs, dumber than shit but salt of the earth hard workers, both Appalachian boys, they probably would have gotten at least a 60 if they had some prep.
What is the lowest you can score?
I’m pretty sure a 10 is filling out your name correctly and answering a few fundamentally easy questions. I’ve never met anyone who got below the 2 Seabees, so I’m guessing.
The lowest I've ever seen is a fifteen. Dude looked like he had fetal alcohol syndrome.
This didn't work the first time and it won't work now. This time it's not just an isolated experiment, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
When the air force has the highest requirements to get in...
The Air Force is able to be choosy because they have the cushiest jobs/ deployments. Being on a flight team to Germany or Bahrain is way better than 6 months in a shithole FOB trying to trade MREs so you can actually take a shit that day.
My dumb whore neighbor who has 3 different spic baby daddies tried to join the Navy and failed the ASVAB, and I figured it was for the best. Then she managed to land a paralegal job because she's good with her mouth and I pity whoever is represented by the lawyers she works for.
I'm guessing the Army is the same way, and it was only around 20 years when the Army started requiring a diploma instead of accepting GEDs as they had previously. I remember in high school they kept warning us about it because some guys figured they could drop out and enlist with a GED.
Wow. I remember studying for the ASVAB for a few weeks
I remember not studying at all and scoring 99, because it's a pretty simple test. If someone can't score a 50, they're probably functionally retarded.
I was very paranoid and that’s the type of person I am. It was easier than I thought but I’d rather study too much and find out it wasn’t so bad than the other way around
Hey, neat. I've always wanted to borrow a yankee aircraft carrier.
Meat for the grinder is all they need. You're in the navy now!
just gearing up to turn these soldiers on dissident Americans
Don’t forget immediate oth discharges for female pregnancies, making women who do want to serve meet the same physical requirements not just for offs but actual labor requirements of the position. For shits and giggles we one time had about 12 females try to lift a zodiac, they couldn’t even lift it off the well deck let alone move it. This was about a decade ago now, it clearly hasn’t gotten better.
Why are women in the military anyway. Or police. Or anything requiring masculinity.
It's to destroy these institutions.
Too much work. Ban them from service and reconstitute the women's service corps. Just watch how few takers you get if they have to wear dresses and heels.
that would help a lot of people but the pay scale would have to change
What about this aptitude testing? Capable people no longer have interest in the service, for good reasons.
I would dismantle every branch of the military. Standing armies are unconstitutional.