I wonder what the kid’s AFQT score was? If he scored really high on the aptitude test, the USAF would not weigh the Tier classification as much. Does the USAF no longer take recruits like this anymore?
He can have the highest aptitude but affirmative action takes precedence over aptitude, ability, skill, talent, awards, merits, and other desirable traits that an employer would be looking for to help make his company the most competitive.
A post-modern society is not allow one to be better/more competitive than others. Affirmative action helps to make everyone equal, and some more equal than others.
Just like the ancient Greeks, the Leftists of America now value poverty (of the spirit, the mind, the heart, and even more physical forms) as a virtue. The losers of life become more valued than the winners.
I wonder what the kid’s AFQT score was?
I was thinking the same thing.
My Son Elliot Harrold, from Istachatta (34636), has this press release (http://www.usafns.com/show-msg.shtml?state=fl&msg=18426) about his completing the USAF Basic Military Training. An item of note is that Elliot Graduated “Home School.” It took him a year to jump through all the hoops because he did not have a traditional HS Diploma. He was one of less than 3% accepted into the USAF that did not have a traditional HS diploma. That is interesting, and maybe news of this will motivate other non-traditional HS graduates not to give up trying to get in the USAF because it is possible. It might take a year though!
Elliot is currently training as a hydraulics specialist to work on fighters and other aircraft, and he is doing extremely well and I am very proud of him.
Best regards,
-Professor Ed
Ed Harrold MBA, BScEE
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