Maybe that’s why they insist on the smarts up front because they don’t beat them into the raw recruits.
Funny you say that. There were two kids recycled in my AF tech school class. Both were active AF (opposed to Air Guard) and one had already been dropped from another AFSC for poor academics.
When our instructor found out the class was 90% prior service and/or National Guard he said “Well, this will be an easy group to teach”.
The 3 highest graduates were prior active Army. Of course two of them were already licensed journeymen electricians in the private sector.
>>Maybe that’s why they insist on the smarts up front because they don’t beat them into the raw recruits.
How does a HS diploma demonstrate smarts up front?
I would think they would use instruments like the ASVAB/AFQT and the SAT for that. A HS diploma means nothing these days.
Given what we know about how home-schooled kids compare to the general HS population (hugely better on academics), this policy is absurd.