Re: WAS Re: NCR: ABSOLUTELY STUNNED - NOW Pointless teasing

From: "Keith P. Mears" <kthulu@COMTECK.COM>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Sat
1 Sep 2001 16:58:17 -0500

That depends on your definition of "hooked up majorly". In all actuality, high ASVAB scores don't really do much more than give you more options as far as HOW Uncle Sam will screw you in the military. That sounds really cynical, so let me clarify. The higher you score on the ASVAB battery, the more of the "212 ways you can be an 'Army of One'" become available to you. My own scores allowed me to have the pick of ANY job in the Army (or any of the branches), but my color-blindness limited me to NON-combat and NON-combat support jobs, which in the end led to some of my disillusionment.

And in my experience, military service is neither helped nor hindered by race, sex, nationality, etc. I found the Army to be the most non-discriminatory employer I've had, where positions and promotions truly were filled based on merit alone. There are of course exceptions, but generally I found this to be true.

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Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:18 PM

Subject: Re: WAS Re: NCR: ABSOLUTELY STUNNED - NOW Pointless teasing

If you score high on the ASVAB test, they hook you up majorly, so I was
thinking about joining the services myself. But then a lot of people say
that women who join the service usually end up getting either married or
pregnant within a year.. My dad said its because there are hardly any women
in there to begin with, and if you've got looks, well then you've pretty much
got the pick of the litter.

In a message dated 8/31/01 11:14:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
wolfs_heart@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

Sorry to hear that Keith. My daughters are both in NJROTC right now. The
oldest Stephanie plansto go in as an officer after she completes her
schooling to be an MD

Lisa