What’s frightening, the army I served in back in 96 wasn’t the same as the army in 2011, and even that one isn’t the same as now.
I served 68-76 in the AF. I had max scores on their AFQT and overall entry test so that put me as available to put in any specialty. I got technical control (controlling all LL, radio, A/G, G/A communications, radar elements, etc. Whenever we’d have a link outage with a marine or army units I had to basically teach the other end operators how to find the link channels and patch them over. They didn’t even know what instruments and gear they were patching out.