Posted on 01/26/2024 7:06:25 AM PST by davikkm
Recent developments in the United States military enlistment criteria have sparked waves of speculation and concern. The United States Navy has taken a surprising turn, dropping all high school diploma and GED requirements for enlistments. The news has raised eyebrows and led a curious citizen journalist to pick up the phone and verify this seemingly unbelievable information directly with the Navy.
The conversation with a Navy phone operator unfolded as follows:
Citizen Journalist: “I just heard that you guys are no longer requiring GEDs or high school diplomas, is that true?” Navy Phone Operator: “Yes. Apparently, it is, that is correct. Uh, but the caveat to that is you have to score 50 or above on the ASVAB.” (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) Citizen Journalist: “Alright. Well, thank you for clarifying that. Looks like we’re going to war.”
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...
Based on this they’d make perfect officers in today’s military not just enlisted.
Leadership is a handicapped capability, all you need to do is swear your oath to a gender fluid society, get fat so you can be excused from physical fitness because it’s biased against fat people.
From the greatest generation ever to the worst generation ever in 75 years.
we also need to restore more ROTC programs and firearms training and shooting sports in our schools
Well, cannon fodder. Why spend more on more competence when all you need is someone to pose in a piccie and then catch a bullet?
Also, let’s not forget that the North recruited soldiers right off the boats in NYC to go south to fight? See above.
This isn’t anything to get too upset about. If they also lowered the requirement to say, 20, that would be an issue. My first Chief Petty Officer had an AQFT of 13... it showed. He was also a Viet Nam vet. I joined when I was 17. Dropped out my Junior year of high school. No GED and no diploma. I did score a 69 on my AFQT which qualified me for service and a good Rate. I retired 20 years later.
Functional illiteracy:
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Bingo. Illegal aliens don't have high school diplomas.
Ironically, some of them might be fishermen and could even have served in foreign navies.
When does the nightmare end?
Yes, that's one less than 51 and one more than 49.
I hope this helps...
A 50 on the ASVAB is pretty darn low.
A 50 on the ASVAB is the average score for all test takers. It is equivalent to 810 on the SAT or a 17 on ACT. Those scores show the student is not prepared for college level work. 1050 and 21 are generally needed as a minimum. 810 is 11% and 17 is 33% of test takers. But most of those test takers are intending to go to college. So, the non-college bound weeded themselves out of the SAT and ACT.
It means they are qualified for only the most menial jobs in the Army. Not sure what that means for the Navy.
Hmm. Apparently the overall minimum is 32.
https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/asvab/asvab-and-army-jobs.html
https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/asvab-scores-for-army-jobs/
Yeah. I was thinking of the line scores. It is still fairly low, but not as low as I recalled.
HRM means human resources management. And they do all kinds of things to manage the level of troops and maintain that level within Congressional budget requirements each service only has enough money per Soldier and they stick very close to that number so if they start having overages they dump people with different programs such as weight program or perhaps High Year tenure or other clever HRM devices to maintain those numbers as close to the Congressional budget numbers that is allowed.
Congress says you only can have (for example) 50,000 billets you’ll probably stay under that number thousands of vacancies and then use the extra money you get from Congress without filling the billets for other pet projects. It’s a game HRM plays and headquarters Personnel are well aware of it. If they need extra money they drop a calculated number of billeted Warm Bodies out and the cost savings are directed to those pet projects.
That’s why I call them warm bodies that’s why I call them grunts and that’s why I call them cannon fodder because they’re playing a shell game with National Defense Personnel numbers and they have been for decades.
If the military services are flush with Personnel they start raising entry requirements, if there’s a deficit of billets filled, simply lower the entrance requirements... the people that have gone through these machinations and these cycles with the military fully understand that it’s BS but the higher-ups feel it’s the correct way to conduct business.
It’s all about the Franklin’s and “billets are diamonds.”
Except for the USMC, American military readiness is even worse than during Obama’s reign.
https://www.heritage.org/military/an-assessment-of-us-military-power
The important part of my post was that intelligence is power within all the units, intelligent infantry is far superior to low IQ infantry, and the American military does not use its troops as cannon fodder as we see the Russians doing and in other militaries.
They’ll take pretty much anyone as long as you’re an incompetent woke libtard
It’s so they can get illegals as mercs in, and offer them citizenship for murdering actual natural born citizens under color of law.
bkmk
“The important part of my post was that intelligence is power within all the units, intelligent infantry is far superior to low IQ infantry, and the American military does not use its troops as cannon fodder as we see the Russians doing and in other militaries.”
And the title of the article is
“Enlistment Shake-Up: Navy Drops Diploma Requirements…” with further insight to a broader scope of requirements being dropped to meet recruitment quotas.
Which is it? Good technically able recruits, or boots on the ground troops with basic combat skills but not meeting generally accepted requirements? Sounds like a prep for a combat situation. You may not not agree with the terminology, but the fed is in agreement to cutting corners. Which equates to greater amounts of casualties.
I don’t even know what you are trying to say, I haven’t actually understood any of your posts to me.
I made post 15, and you posted something to it and keep going on about I don’t know what.
What were you trying to say to post 15?
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