• egg1916 [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The standards are entirely made up and can be changed in an instant both officially and unofficially. Unless you've got something like diabetes, gang tattoos, or drugs in your pee they will find a way to jam you through.

    A high school classmate of mine got a fucking 7 on the percentile scored entrance test. Bottom 7% of the already stupid mfs who take that test. It's basically the SAT but like 7th-8th grade stuff. 31 is the minimum for the jobs with the lowest requirement.

    He finished his enlistment last year.

    I saw them get an overweight cadet to lose 20+ pounds in 3 weeks and cut like 7 minutes off his 2 mile run time. Theyre very good at getting people into shape (not so great at keeping them there tho)

    The recruiters also bash it into your head that when you go to the medical exam that you need tolie and lie about everything. I didn't even have to, my pulse was too low but the doctor just recorded the minimum and said don't worry.

    I think they're struggling so much now because gen z is just hopeless for their future and many realized college isn't worth either loads of student debt or serving the imperialist war machine.

    • Nationalgoatism [any]
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      2 years ago

      I know I guy who joined the air force despite his drug use, mostly weed and LSD, but also other stuff. He admitted it to the recruiter, who told him to just keep it under wraps and not smoke weed for a bit before he got his urine tested and he wouldn't mention it lmao

    • constellation [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, in times of need they just lower their standards. There are always more men (and they are overwhelmingly men) available.

      During Vietnam there was a shortage of men, too. Defense secretary McNamara had the brilliant idea of allowing hillbillies, rednecks, and other low-IQ men into the army. They were called "McNamara's Morons" and were totally unsuitable. They couldn't do the jobs to which they were assigned and got a lot of Americans killed. They got themselves killed at high rates, too. But hey, the war machine got the bodies it needed, so the program worked. All praise to the genius who came up with the idea. Afterwards the US military refused to accept anyone with an IQ of 84 or below.