Posted on 01/26/2024 5:50:38 AM PST by Enlightened1
LOL, it was based on the needs of the Army at the time. IIRC, borderline soldiers were sent to classrooms to beef up their reading comprehension.
Thanks for your service, Top. I’ll take a bit of issue with your comments regarding officers, but I understand where you’re coming from. My problem was with staff officers that were sent to command batteries. For me, it was like having CPT Sobel as a CO. I was No Dick Winters or Sam Damon, but I was competent enough after I flunked my first ARTEP, and that’s when the light came on.
Not me.
“All I can say is where I went. I was also 25 y/o.
There was around 30-40 guys & girls in the room.
I took the EPDT solo, the same day at MEPS.”
I don’t doubt your personal experience. You were probably relatively close to the MEPS. My recruiting station was 3 hours away. I was just making the point that not everyone takes the ASVAB at MEPS, which, in retrospect, is pretty trivial.
Gotcha. I was in Jacksonville, FL at the time.
USAF.
Back then, MEPS was called Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station (AFEES), so I assume they did testing.
“I took a pre-ASVAB at school with the entire class (late 10th grade) and the ASVAB at Camp Pendelton, CA.”
That “pre-ASVAB” was probably the real ASVAB. The military convinced schools to administer the ASVAB as a vocational counseling tool; that it would indicate what fields students would do well in. There also may have been a financial incentive, but that was above my head. In my time, recruiters would get a dot matrix print out of the results including scores, contact information, and demographics. That list was by far our number one recruiting tool. If you were called by a recruiter that’s most likely where he got your number.
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