70% of youths not fit to serve in military-obese,drugs,criminal records

Headline of The Day ^ | September 2, 2017 | T.A. Reid

[Mears]

Thanks for the reply

The earlier poster said the average score in his area was 15——is that good or bad?

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[MSF BU]

The pool of young men is large enough to flesh out an army. The problem is that the Romney boys don’t want to serve. Resume conscription.

[MSF BU]

Forty hours a week? What branch of the service were you in? Where did you deploy to?

[MSF BU]

Don’t worry, they significantly eased up on the body fat standards for females so many of them could enter and/or remain on active duty.

[Gay State Conservative]

When I started BCT (many,many years ago) I wasn't really obese but I was completely out of shape.The Army fixed that in a hurry...after a couple of weeks I could run and do pushups with the best of them.Of course I wasn't doing drugs and didn't have a criminal record at that time.

[philetus]

Not all of them. They need road guards.

[gundog]

If you’re playing ping pong.

[AlaskaErik]

When I went through Marine Corps basic in 1973 there was a fat boy platoon. Come to San Diego over your weight limit and you start out in the fat boy platoon and you stay there until you meet the weight standard. We’d see them huffing and puffing by on a regular basis.

[2111USMC]

Don’t know off hand.

Back in ‘74 we didn’t take the battery of tests until we were already in boot camp.

I have no idea what my score was because they didn’t tell us. (Must have been good enough because they didn’t change the MOS I enlisted for.)

[philetus]

Not all of them. They need road guards.

[2111USMC]

Here are the minimums:

Military Requirements for Minimum ASVAB Scores

Military Branch High School Diploma GED
Air Force 36 65
Army 31 50
Coast Guard 40 50
Marine Corps 32 50
National Guard 31 50
Navy 35 50

[doorgunner69]

We had a fatty in our company when I was in boot camp.

We had a Mexican guy we called Big Lucero. He ended up losing around 50 pounds during the training. Would have been a helluva NFL lineman.

[Paperpusher]

Thus, a score of 90 indicates that the examinee scored as well as or better than 90% of the nationally-representative sample of 18 to 23 year old youth. A score of 50 indicates that the examinee scored as well as or better than 50% of the nationally-representative sample. A score of 15 indicates that the examinee scored at, or below the limit for a canine.

[doorgunner69]

Sounds like AF or maybe navy.

[shotgun]

That’s the placement exam for military service.

[smileyface]

I understand percentiles.

[Mears]

Thanks-—that explains a lot.

I didn’t even know that this exam existed.

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[MSF BU]

Couldn’t be Navy; those guys get 12 hour shifts at least every day they are at sea, not to mention getting up for drills, etc. I know one sub guy who told me he was underwater for over two months.