• Dubiousx99@lemmy.world
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    For those not familiar with it, it is an aptitude test that covers a wide range of topics. The results can be informational. Beware if you score well enough to fill a job in the army that is really understaffed, you will never get the recruiters to stop calling.

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      I had all 3 branches showing up at my house and lying to my face to get me to join after my school made me take it.

      You’d think they would realize that lying to someone who scored really high was a bad idea.

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      I wonder how low you have to score before the military doesn’t bother to recruit you, because I had to take the ASBAV in high school and I just filled in bubbles at random since I had no interest in dying in Iraq. I still got a high enough score that recruiters kept bothering me for years.

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      We took it senior year and I really didn’t know about it at the time. I must have flipped some switch because every branch started calling, and a navy recruiter actually came to my house wanting to talk about nuke school. I was like I don’t want to bomb anyone with nukes thank you very much lol.

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        NPS ‘nuke school’ focuses mainly on shipboard nuclear power plant operation, like nuclear powered subs.

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          I read that as “nuclear powered studs” and was thinking “about right for navy”

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        I took it, had an army recruiter show up a year later and asked to speak with me. My mom said I had already enlisted, the guy goes, “Oh, we already got em?”

        “No, the Navy did, he left for bootcamp last fall.”

        Also had my recruiter step between the Navy MEPS guy and I to tell him to fuck off and find me a job I wanted. He would not let the nuke thing go, and my recruiters already knew I had no interest and backed my other job choices. 😂

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      I scored high on all fields but one and the recruiter never left me alone for four years, even finding me on Facebook.

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      “I’m sorry, I had an accident lately. Lost a hand and half my lung, and lost parts of my gray matter. Anyways, what would be my starting rank? General?”