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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:23:54 PM EDT
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A Navy recruiter just showed up about a hour or so ago and asked about my son. I bet it was the same one. As people have asked about my daughters grades in HS. My daughter graduated co Salutatorian with a GPA in the 4.35 range. She is doing as well grade wise in college. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:24:52 PM EDT
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He's a recruiter and his lips are moving.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:25:45 PM EDT
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Recruiters are given goals. Maybe she fits exactly what they want so special effort is involved.
Oh, enlisting for a few years can give great benefits like GI and Montgomery bill benefits not to mention some very advanced training in the field of her choice. Beats the hell out of a 30 year student debt. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:27:17 PM EDT
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Maybe since she hit 18, he is trying to hit on her.
Just sayin' Is he a career recruiter or detailed? |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:27:31 PM EDT
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Bingo! (Former Nuke) Fuck that. I wouldn't mind my kids serving, but I'll be damned if I let them enlist. If your ASVAB is above 90 the navy is looking for you to fill just a handful of jobs, and nukes is always the first option they will push people to. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:41:20 PM EDT
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Cut him some slack people, a recruiter is a salesman. He's selling a product.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:44:45 PM EDT
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It's probably semi accurate. I had no criminal record, scored in the 98th or 99th percentile with a 141 GT and they wouldn't leave me the fuck alone  Calls roughly 3-4x a week but they never came by the house. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 4:54:05 PM EDT
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He's a recruiter and his lips are moving. 
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:00:44 PM EDT
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Navy recruiters are stupid. I missed 2 questions on the ASVAB and I had Navy recruiters still calling me when I was already an NCO in the Marines Corps.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:02:06 PM EDT
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They probably have quotas to meet. Never trust them. Let her get her degree and go in as an officer if she wants to. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:03:43 PM EDT
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You really, really shouldn't let your daughters join the military unless you know exactly what goes on there.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:06:42 PM EDT
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Navy recruiters are stupid. I missed 2 questions on the ASVAB and I had Navy recruiters still calling me when I was already an NCO in the Marines Corps. I am eligible to retire from the USMC in less than a year
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:07:54 PM EDT
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I have no idea about quotas, but the bottom sentence is 100% correct. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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They probably have quotas to meet. Never trust them. Let her get her degree and go in as an officer if she wants to. Life is better as an officer than being an enlisted. Granted. I have respect for both as they both did more than I did.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:08:19 PM EDT
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Chicks on subs - what could go wrong?  
One of my nieces is a Nuke. She has about a year left on her commitment and she is going to the private sector with that skill set. 
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:10:12 PM EDT
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Sixteen years USN here Aceing the ASVAB could mean anything. I cut a 97. A 99 is the highest you can get from what i u derstand. They lobbied me for the nuke program. Of course I wanted to fly. If she’s in college keep her there. The navy is having a huge retention problem now. They will throw BS at you and her. Life in the navy is hard by any standard. I’m deployed right now actually. Im very proud of my service and I love my navy but it isn’t easy. If she wants to join the navy have her go in as an officer after college. Still hard but better pay and better quality of life, somewhat.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:10:42 PM EDT
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Chicks on subs - what could go wrong? |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:11:08 PM EDT
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The only place left in the military worth being in is SOCOM. And the one place where your daughter probably won't be getting in to. No, no and no. Only 1% of test takers get a 99 |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:11:24 PM EDT
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The Navy needs Nukes....she is smart and meets the criteria. If she wants a $60k SRB and school payed for, you could do a lot worse than a 5 year tour in the Worlds finest Navy |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:13:25 PM EDT
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I was told I did better on the asvab than anyone they'd ever seen. I can imagine everyone else was told that, too.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:17:45 PM EDT
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The Navy needs Nukes....she is smart and meets the criteria. If she wants a $60k SRB and school payed for, you could do a lot worse than a 5 year tour in the Worlds finest Navy I work in IT, and know a ton of former nukes. If she didn't already have college going for her, then Navy nuke or Navy IT programs are fine. I did advanced electronics field, got out, earned a degree by going to night school for 7 years. Hindsight being 20/20, I'd have figured out a way to do college first. Stay in college. She can always serve later. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:19:54 PM EDT
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I had no interest in going in the military. I grew up as an army brat and my dad had cancer and was medically discharged. We were constantly moving when I was younger. I managed to do all of high school in my parent's hometown and really liked it here. The asvab was mandatory at my school. I was pissed I had to take it. Filled in the dots on the answer sheet in the shape of a ZZ Top logo, then took my pencil and shaded in the rest of the design. I never even opened the book. The recruiters wore me out telling me how high I scored and I knew then it was bullshit. The most important thing the asvab does is give a recruiter contact info.
By the way, I still live in this town, raised my family here. My youngest graduates high school next month. All of my kids graduated with people they went to kindergarten with. No disrespect to the military, God bless them. But being an army brat during the late Vietnam time and the Carter years was enough army life for me. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:20:20 PM EDT
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Yeah well, I had an Army recruiter call me last week. I am eligible to retire from the USMC in less than a year Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Navy recruiters are stupid. I missed 2 questions on the ASVAB and I had Navy recruiters still calling me when I was already an NCO in the Marines Corps. I am eligible to retire from the USMC in less than a year
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:20:37 PM EDT
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i aced version 20b 26 years ago. 99.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:20:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you want her to be miserable, by all means, send her through the nuke program. Who doesn't want to be on a carrier, amirite? Then she'll be a licensed reactor operator and can work anywhere there's a nuclear power plant. Now google map all of the nuke plants in the US, and see if she'd want to live any of those places. The fun thing about nukes is that even on their shore duty rotations, they still do nuke shit. They very rarely get a break from it. I work in IT, and know a ton of former nukes. If she didn't already have college going for her, then Navy nuke or Navy IT programs are fine. I did advanced electronics field, got out, earned a degree by going to night school for 7 years. Hindsight being 20/20, I'd have figured out a way to do college first. Stay in college. She can always serve later.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:27:06 PM EDT
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CSB...but true. Went to an AF recruiter at 26. The district manager was there. After being very honest about my past, the DM told me, "You will never serve in my United States Air Force". Took the tests, and did score mid/high 90s across the board. Air Force had a very sudden and earnest change of heart. I got a "moral waiver" (seriously) and some corrective counseling on my defective memory. Should have sent up a red flag, but I was young(ish) and enthusiastic. Interestingly, the Marine recruiter told me, "We don't give a flying f**k what you've done, sign this paper and we'll have you at Parris Island next week." |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:29:49 PM EDT
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If this is something she wants to pursue, tell her to ask about NUPOC (if that's not what they are already after). If the recruiter was at all truthful about her score, they probably want to make her a nuke. Enlisting as such would be dumb IMO since she's already in school, unless she literally can't graduate. NUPOC will pay her as an E-something for 30 months prior to graduating along with a bonus. IIRC it was E4 with a 15k bonus when I was looking into it.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:29:52 PM EDT
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I was a recruiter for 3 years. Unusual for someone to get a 99 AFQT (if that’s what she got).
That is except for how nearly every arfcommer says they did when they took the asvab 
Recruiters normally have lists of the current high school seniors and the previous 2 years of grads. It’s their job to contact every single one of those people on the list to determine if they are eligible or not to join and to see if they are interested to set an appointment to discuss joining. If they cannot contact them by phone or other means, they will sometimes go knock on their door. That’s their job. Recruiter probably getting his balls beat for never contacting an asvab qualified person on one of his lists so he came and knocked on your door. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:34:57 PM EDT
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Same here back in the '90s. WOULD NOT STOP. I finally explained to them that I'd love to serve my country but I am nearsighted with astigmatism and I have asthma, all true. Then they left me alone. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:35:01 PM EDT
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So a sailor showed up at your door looking for your daughter???
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:35:51 PM EDT
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One thing I've noticed in this thread is that everyone here aced the ASVAB.
I don't think I even knew what I scored. I walked in the Marine recruiting office and told them I wanted to be infantry, like my dad and my granddad. That was before my senior year in high school. The next summer after graduation, I left for boot camp. Almost 30 years later, I'm still proud of my service and happy with my choices. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:36:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:43:05 PM EDT
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I was a recruiter for 3 years. Unusual for someone to get a 99 AFQT (if that’s what she got). That is except for how nearly every arfcommer says they did when they took the asvab
Recruiters normally have lists of the current high school seniors and the previous 2 years of grads. It’s their job to contact every single one of those people on the list to determine if they are eligible or not to join and to see if they are interested to set an appointment to discuss joining. If they cannot contact them by phone or other means, they will sometimes go knock on their door. That’s their job. Recruiter probably getting his balls beat for never contacting an asvab qualified person on one of his lists so he came and knocked on your door.  Attached File
They should just rename the test to the "did you pay attention in high school" test. It doesn't mean much more than that. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:44:21 PM EDT
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She just graduated high school last year and is in her first year of college. The recruiter told my wife that my daughter almost aced the ASFAB which they said was "unusual". So the question is, is it unusual? Or are they feeding us a line of BS? I was never in the service, but I have heard the recruiter stories of promising more than what will happen. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:46:45 PM EDT
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It's BS, ASVAB is a joke.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:47:11 PM EDT
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The Navy needs Nukes....she is smart and meets the criteria. If she wants a $60k SRB and school payed for, you could do a lot worse than a 5 year tour in the Worlds finest Navy You can do a hell of a lot worse than getting almost all your main courses for a degree in nuclear engineering and 4.5 years of Job experience while getting paid. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:48:23 PM EDT
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I scored high 90s on the ASVAB with little effort. Got a 6465 MOS for it and I'll be the first to tell ya my intelligence is questionable at best most days. CAS bench? |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 5:48:29 PM EDT
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I scored in the top percentile, even knowing I had an Army ROTC four-year scholarship, the local Army recruiter kept calling me each year for several years.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:00:10 PM EDT
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Ask her what she wants. Let her choose what she wants.
She seems to be a smart girl, so there is no wrong answer. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:02:19 PM EDT
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Hey OP, have you been working out? How do you stay so youthful looking? I’d have never guessed you have a daughter that old...
I’ve got some term life insurance here I think you could really benefit from! They’re car salesman and that was some butter. The ASVAB is the first in a line of filters to weed out the big rocks. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:03:04 PM EDT
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It's the navy. It could be worse it could be the Marines
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:03:22 PM EDT
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They probably have quotas to meet. Never trust them. Let her get her degree and go in as an officer if she wants to. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:05:15 PM EDT
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They probably have quotas to meet. Never trust them. Let her get her degree and go in as an officer if she wants to. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:11:00 PM EDT
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I'll be the first to admit in this whole forum that I didn't score a 90+ on the ASVAB.
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:11:51 PM EDT
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BS, if she is doing well in college and having a good time then she needs to stay there IMO. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:11:55 PM EDT
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I'll be the first to admit in this whole forum that I didn't score a 90+ on my ASVAB. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:12:31 PM EDT
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I forget what my score was but my recruiter kept telling me it was so high I could do anything I wanted in the Navy........ as long as it was the nuclear program.
He was selling it hard like a desperate used car salesmen. 
I enrolled in college instead. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:13:36 PM EDT
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I'll be the first to admit in this whole forum that I didn't score a 90+ on the ASVAB. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:14:04 PM EDT
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They probably have quotas to meet. Never trust them. Let her get her degree and go in as an officer if she wants to. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:16:50 PM EDT
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High scorers qualify for hard-to-fill fields like nuke and crypto.
If she's in the high 90s then she can do anything. |
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Posted: 4/8/2019 6:17:50 PM EDT
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She just graduated high school last year and is in her first year of college. The recruiter told my wife that my daughter almost aced the ASFAB which they said was "unusual". So the question is, is it unusual? Or are they feeding us a line of BS? I was never in the service, but I have heard the recruiter stories of promising more than what will happen. |
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