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.