Interesting incident at Air Force Recruiting Station

[Andara Bledin]

Oi. The ASVAB... >_<

Yeah, I had West Point on the phone at 7:30 am on a Saturday. I have no idea what I said to get rid of him, but I know I wanted to get back to sleep.

I got calls for at least a month and media packets for a couple more.

^-.-^

[SuperDan]

I had recruiters (most of them Navy for some reason, but at least one from each other branch as well) calling multiple times each evening once ASVAB score results were released (my high school required all juniors to take it). The calls stopped all around when one Navy recruiter asked my weight and physical condition and I informed them that (at the time age 17.5) I was 330 pounds and not particularly muscular.

[Misanthropical]

My big guy had the Army recruiter rudely slam the phone down when my son told the recruiter that he has aspergers. He really does have aspergers and it seems that having it has disqualified him from serving in any branch of the military. Of course, this was fine by me since I worry enough about him, I can't imagine the worry I would have if he was sent over seas to serve.

[PepperElf]

Oh, brother, do they ever! I nailed the ASVAB--it was required for everyone to take it when I was in school, so I took it like every other test--to the best of my ability. I did well on the first half, and aced the second half. I thought that was pretty cool at the time, until I couln't get the damn recruiters off the phone!

I already had college plans, but they wouldn't take no for an answer. I finally just told them I had bad feet to stop the calls. It was true enough, if not medically accurate. I have really flat feet from genetics--you can see the whole imprint on a normal step, and I make a little suction sound when I cross tile barefoot.

O yeah. One of my friends fucking aced his ASVAB. And I mean ACED it - 99th percentile. They were fucking DROOLING over him. They were even prepared to get him a waiver for nuke school for his age... except he didn't want it.


So yeah, they'll give waivers if you're shit hot or have some quality they feel they can't do without.

My big guy had the Army recruiter rudely slam the phone down when my son told the recruiter that he has aspergers. He really does have aspergers and it seems that having it has disqualified him from serving in any branch of the military. Of course, this was fine by me since I worry enough about him, I can't imagine the worry I would have if he was sent over seas to serve.

Personally I would recommend talking to that man's boss about that. Even if your son is disqualified from serving that's no reason to be rude, especially to a civilian. (not to mention it may not specifically be a disqualifying issue anyway depending on the factors etc)

[Misanthropical]

The different branches have stopped calling for him now. I talked to the Marine recruiter and he told me that they couldn't accept my son either.

I took the test for the Marines back in '89 '90 and they told me they had not seen anyone get a score higher than mine and when could I come in and sign the paper? The first gulf war had broken out by then and I had fallen in love with Mr. Mis, so I told them while I appreciate all they did for me (Navy turned me down for medical reasons even though my doctor had signed a waiver stating it would not interfere with my duties) the Marines had no problem accepting the waiver and me. Ooh-rah!

[ShadowBall]

I guess she can get in line, then - from what I've read, something like 75 percent of all people who are of an acceptable age to enlist are either too fat and/or unhealthy, too dumb, too crazy or have too extensive of a criminal record to join. And that is saying a lot because when I was a senior just six short years ago, the military was the only option for the kids who were not special needs that were just plain dumb and couldn't get into college, but were too special to flip burgers or stock shelves.

And these classmates I speak of were very thick - one of them thought elbow grease was some kind of art medium. When you're dumber than that, that is scary. I digress.

Odds are this woman is not so epic that she'd pass any testing with flying colors. From the sound of it, I doubt very much she's trying to turn herself around as much as she's either looking for a baby-daddy or she thinks she'll get lots of money being in the military and figures she can do something "cushy" like work a computer. (This is not to say there are cushy military positions - I mean something the average idiot might see as being easy)

[underemployeed]

Lets see, I averaged a 95 on the ASVAB, have a 4 year degree where I graduated with honors, no kids, experimented with pot once..... It still took a year to get a call back from my recruiter. Of course, I'm going guard opposed to active duty because I still want some control over my life. Sounds like this woman would fit in with a few people I went to MEPS with.... They struggled to take the ASVAB and were wondering how I was the last on in the room, and first one out even with waitign about 10-15min for everyone to get taken to a computer and started.

[EricKei]

I guess she can get in line, then - from what I've read, something like 75 percent of all people who are of an acceptable age to enlist are either too fat and/or unhealthy, too dumb, too crazy or have too extensive of a criminal record to join.

I took the test at a local recruiting station once I was old enough, just to see -- I aced the test, the only issues were my weight ("don't worry, we can fix that in Basic") and my vision --- I'm nearsighted to the point of being legally blind without my specs. They basically said to drop 40lbs and try again in a few months, but that what I could do/where to serve might be affected by vision (read: nothing involving piloting/vehicles). Life conspired such that I never did go back. >_<