Ping!
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?
Whoa! Calm down there, mama. Nothing so sinister. People tend to forget that the military is a GIANT bureaucracy. Like any bureaucracy, it is VERY slow in adapting to its current environment. As would-be servicemembers like this Dennis kid increase, they'll be forced to look at their admission criteria and make the necessary changes in policy--but it won't happen overnight.
Dennis is still hoping he’ll be able to join the Air Force. If he’s not allowed to enlist, he said he plans to go to college and join ROTC.
That would be better for him anyway.
Unfortunately, I’ve observed master’s-prepared graduates of online universities who cannot function in the workplace. University of Phoenix grads were the majority. I have no idea how to select a school or to deal w/this situation, so I can’t be helpful.
What did he score on the aptitude test?
If he had a high score and has a congressman involved it’s probably a fairly easy fix to get a policy change in regards to homeschoolers.
Maybe a high aptitude test score along with a high SAT or ACT score in lieu of a traditional HS diploma?
Homeschoolers would probably make the most brave and loyal military the country has ever had since George Washington. I don’t know what the policy has historically been, but it’s easy to see why Obama would love the pubskewl crowd.
How unjust!
This makes no sense because each branch of the military utilizes their mental and physical aptitude/fitness exams before they accept anyone. They reject many applicants from so-called Tier 1 schools who do not pass their aptitude tests.
How did this kid do on his military tests that all applicants take?
No Union Teachers at Home School, online Schools or GED’s. I wonder if that is a factor. How long has this Policy been in effect?
That's the better choice anyway. Get a commission and possibly your wings.
The better option anyway.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to give tests to people wanting to enlist and taking those that score over a certain grade, regardless of where they were educated. In fact, IIRC, when I joined the Army in 1959, that is exactly what they did do. Gave us test, a simple one at first to determine if we were smart enough to join and then later more complicated ones, such as the OCS test(which I passed, BTW). It didn’t matter if you had a diploma or not, you still were tested and if you failed, out you went.
More likely just a policy that was valid 20 years ago when modern homeschooling was in its infancy, and high school graduates who’d been homeschooled were as rare as the Hope Diamond. This is nothing more than a failure to adapt.
That’s because he hasn’t been collectively Socialized by the Leftist indoctrination system which makes him an infidel in their eyes.
>> Just more pc crap
It’s probably a matter of the unconventional.
The kid could use some Congressional advocacy.
I’d rather have this kid and get rid of 20 or 30 “cubicle commandos” over in the pentagon.
This is exactly the kind of brainless chit that you pay some apparatchik Colonel 100K per year to think up. Colonel Brainless is prolly planning his next vacation and buying some retirement property.
And his his fat paycheck is supplied by private sector taxpayers trying to figure out how to make their next
mortgage payment.
Maybe a career enhancing whisper, “I am gay” would help get them to Tier 1?