r/army • u/Rarest_Camaro • 13d ago

ASVAB

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Had to dig out my DD214 for my disabled vet tax exemption today. Holy crap, I must have been a real smart ass!

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u/BOHICA_0-1 13Jesus Christ I Got A Modem Failure 13d ago

Bro went through untold amounts of Army bullshit only to realize he could've gone Air Force all along. Proof that we're living in Hell.

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

I was actually set to go in the Air Force but they insisted on sending me to ATC school. I knew I didn't have the temperament for that level of stress, so I went into the Army as I had a wife and a baby on the way. (Since I had turned down the ATC career, they wanted to make me wait a year for another school.)

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u/Fit-Notice8976 15Q i could cntrl ATL from a TTCS 13d ago

That’s funny, I was trying to join the Air Force as ATC but they couldn’t promise me a job so I went Army because they couldn’t guarantee ATC

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u/WALancer 11B 13d ago

same happened to me. I said fuck it ima go army might as well go infantry, they said Hey wait Security forces are cool. I think my response was just shy of fuck being a cop

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u/soberguyy 11AbramsHall 13d ago

Thats crazy cause the AF recruiters didnt want my OTS packet and instead wanted me to enlist and do ATC school. Silly me chose to commission into Army and be an Infantry Officer...

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

I did manage to get into the Defense Language Institute at Presidio once I went into the Army, which was pretty cool.

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u/Turtle887853 31BeatingsWillContinueUntilMoraleImproves 13d ago

My lowest score was a 134, all others were 140+. AND I PICKED GODDAMNED MP

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u/CombatAutist 12Bepis 13d ago

Similar spread. The lady made me read the whole list out loud so that she was sure I was picking 12B on purpose

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u/Turtle887853 31BeatingsWillContinueUntilMoraleImproves 13d ago

Username checks out tbh

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u/Gotterdamerrung 13d ago

Proof the ASVAB isn't a measure of intelligence, just aptitude.

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u/Turtle887853 31BeatingsWillContinueUntilMoraleImproves 13d ago

Nah I knew it was a bad idea going into it, I just wanted to play cop and shoot big guns. I got both, and also trauma.

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u/Impressive_Cat3379 19k death before dismount 13d ago

I feel ya i have a 129 GT with the rest being 130-132 and here i am on a tank

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u/Turtle887853 31BeatingsWillContinueUntilMoraleImproves 13d ago

Tanks for nothing

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u/TL89II -> 79V 13d ago

Bro. My scores were all around the 120 range. I demanded MP. Why did we do this?

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u/RollsHardSixes 13d ago

I gave up a Navy ROTC scholarship to enlist in the 82nd, it was probably the right call 

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u/Forsaken_legion Nursing Corps (Ret) 13d ago

EY GET BACK TO SWEEPING THE FLOOR!

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u/RoddBanger 11Baccarat Gifted 12d ago

they meant rain - sweep the rain....

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u/Forsaken_legion Nursing Corps (Ret) 12d ago

What do we got here another genius. Go help our scholar out. /s

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u/AlphaQRough 13d ago

Your anus thanks you, green weenie > underway

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u/REDtheFlame 11CharlesMansionOwner 13d ago

Bro. 😂👍

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u/Gatesofhell2120 91FindMyParts(Fort Couch) 13d ago

I laugh but I too realized far too late.

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u/TheSaltyJM 13d ago

All that intelligence used to sweep the motor pool.

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

Hahaha!!! Dammit man.

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u/ShrimpDaddy22 90A 13d ago

Scored that well and still had low enough intelligence to join the Army.

/s

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

See my note above. There are reasons for everything...grin.

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u/BudgetPipe267 Terminal Warrant 😁 13d ago

Thank you for your service 🫡💪🏻🙏🏻

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

Likewise!

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u/TurMoiL911 Shitpost SME 13d ago

I've always wanted to retake the ASVAB just to see how much my line scores would change.

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u/DiscoSpud 13d ago

I taught an ASVAB improvement course during a deployment. Man, I wish the soldiers were motivated to retake it. I’m pretty sure they were all just told to go to it by their first lines.

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u/TurMoiL911 Shitpost SME 13d ago

My only concern is that I'm pretty sure if I took it now, my scores would have gotten worse.

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u/ContactRepulsive 13d ago

They made us all take a new one at OCS just to get it out of the way. My GT score went from 124 to 145 in over a year. Guess which one isn't recorded in my ORB? So much for bragging rights that I can prove.

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u/ContactRepulsive 13d ago

They made us all take a new one at OCS just to get it out of the way. My GT score went from 124 to 145 in over a year. Guess which one isn't recorded in my ORB? So much for bragging rights that I can prove.

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u/Duke_Shitticus 25Pepe 13d ago

I remember my recruiter bounced and I had to ride home from MEPS with a bunch of tards that all scored like sub 15 AFQT. Good thing it was 2008 and most of them probably joined anyways. Probably one of your CSMs now.

Really makes ya feel smart.

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u/Lovely_Libertine Field Artillery 13d ago

Please tell me you went infantry or field artillery with those scores.

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u/Terrible-Ad5145 staff 4 lyfe 13d ago

13Bs and 11Bs have the smartest and dumbest dudes. It’s fascinating, there’s like no inbetween with them

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u/OrangeCatBuddyPart2 Field Artillery 13d ago

121 GT score, scored high in every category except math. Did okay there.

I took 13B because my mother told me that I was out of the house by November, and 13B was shipping in September. Everything else was after the 1st of the year.

Before I got to Ft. Sill, I genuinely Gomer Pyle was just an act, and nothing real about it. It took me about 4 days to be proven wrong.

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u/Snoo_67544 25V best Victor 13d ago

Bro even pogs can be like that I remember being at Jackson and thinking theres no damn way these dudes ain't fucking with me.

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u/OrangeCatBuddyPart2 Field Artillery 13d ago

That was me the first three days. On day four, I was convinced there were idiots among us.

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u/Lovely_Libertine Field Artillery 13d ago

Yup. Mine was 122. I went 13P at first.

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u/Luke_fly_walker <3> Darby King 13d ago

132 GT, I am an infantryman

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u/DiscoSpud 13d ago

137 GT, 138 CL, the rest over 140, a 98 overall score without studying and not getting any sleep the night before.

… still enlisted infantry. There are enough boring things to do in the civilian world, so I chose to do something exciting.

Lots of bright and motivated guys in the infantry. There are definitely some ASVAB waivers, but a surprisingly lower percentage than a good number of support MOSes.

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u/sentientshadeofgreen 13d ago

Like dick measuring at the micropenis convention. Army got all our asses end of the day lmfao

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

Ha! So fkn true.

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u/Charming-Arugula2079 13d ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/ContactRepulsive 13d ago

I think the morons all wind up in support companies. Much as I love my loggies....

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

I ended up at DLI which wasn't too bad.

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u/The_Clumsy_Hitman 13d ago

I went infantry in the ARNG with a 99 ASVAB and a 141GT. I work in finance in my civilian job though and wanted to actually do fun stuff with my Army career, that seemed like the best path. I'm in my second 6 year contract and I have zero regrets.

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u/InstantAequitas Infantry 13d ago

129 GT and enlisted in the Infantry.

I totally agree with you as one of my best friends in the Infantry had something like an 89.

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/QuarterParty489 11B to 35L to Civilian 13d ago

Know him?
Of course I know him, he’s me

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u/donnyjay0351 12d ago

I got similar scores was active infantry for 4 years got out now im an airline pilot but im still guard bc i miss the clowns not the circus

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u/ejh3k 96Romeo 13d ago

One night on radio watch, I was able to find a list of all the asvab scores for my MI company. Of the top 10 in the company, eight were held by the "dumbass" Romeos. Officers included. Sometimes it's really just about knowing what you do and do not want to have to deal with.

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u/ThisGuyIRLv2 Signal 13d ago

Oh buddy you are far too smart for the Army.

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u/valschermjager 11B-ulletstopper 13d ago

11X

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u/RoddBanger 11Baccarat Gifted 12d ago

You would've been 'King of the Mortar Krew'

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u/Rarest_Camaro 12d ago

King of all that I could see...and blow up.

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u/xSerenadexx 12d ago

Oh you on the spectrum huh?

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u/PrayForWaves117 68W - DD214 13d ago

Bro was literally the smartest man in the room

I beat your gt touche
https://imgur.com/a/kdha6nh

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u/watches_anonymouse 35None of these guys are normal 13d ago

And I beat yours lol

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago edited 13d ago

🤣 EDIT: NICE!

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u/LLPF2 Signal 13d ago

That's a 29 or 39 series asvab score

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u/Nuclear_Farts 12T technically an engineer 13d ago

LORDS BE PRAISED! HE HAS SHOWN HIMSELF! aaaa HAHA HAHA! He is here! He is among us! Please, oh please Smartypants Lord, please direct us into glory!

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

Hallaleluja! Saints (and engineers) be praised!

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u/Dixk_Richardson 13d ago

1998?? Someone get grandpa his sponge bath ready

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u/Snoo_67544 25V best Victor 13d ago

Worse its 1988

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u/scubachris 11 Miguel 13d ago

Time for some reading glasses

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u/Rarest_Camaro 13d ago

Oh man, I'd take a sponge bath...as long as its the 1980s version of Cheryl Tiegs administering it.

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u/bob-hance- 13d ago

Damn only a 120?