I'm Joining the Army

[Visage]

If any of you remember I was going to go into the military after high school but I needed a medical waiver for latent TB(tested positive on skin test) and the medical waiver was disqualified barring me from service for 2 years. A year ago I did a quantiferon blood test that came up negative(negative means no latent or active TB) which means the skin test was just a fluke or a false positive.

I chose the army because I liked the sound of Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist. I just did my ASVAB test today and am very pleased to have gotten a 95 and over 130 on all proficiencies(you only need 110 in any proficiency and only 31 on ASVAB) which means I am eligible for every single job in the entire military excluding officer jobs.
Anyway I will probably update next week when I do my medical and pick my job.

I know Bones is in the Air Force but is there any other current or future soldiers? Also feel free to wish me luck or hope I die in combat, whatever floats your boat!

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[Night Fox]

shinji went into some military branch. I cant remember which tho. haven't really seen him much since :c

[IkeTheGeneric]

I wish good luck to you, Visage :)

[Mister Cheese]

What exactly does a "Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist" do? Decrypt codes or enemy intel?

[Visage]

What exactly does a "Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist" do? Decrypt codes or enemy intel?

They are pretty much data brown townysts except the data is war related. Data brown townysts make a lot of money in civilian world and being in cryptology I will learn a foreign language which is also nice for civilian world.

[masterockets]

Nice, hope you have fun doing what you love

[Mister Cheese]

That's pretty cool! Sounds like fun, I hope you enjoy it

[Theepicman]

Hopefully you do well in Boot camp! I hope you enjoy your job to help others.

[Steve5452]

I only got a 36 on my ASVAB. :c

[Visage]

I only got a 36 on my ASVABm. :c

I got 89 my first time fresh out of high school and it's been 4 years since then with 0 education and I got a 60 on the practice so I expected to get pretty bad, but then bam aced everything. I never have to take the ASVAB again my recruiter told me because I've already qualified for every job in service.

Also don't feel bad I went with 3 other guys and one got 17, one got 21, and one got 34, so you're better than all those guys!

[DrenDran]

go to college you welfare queen


jk have fun and stay safe

[Mister Cheese]

I've always wondered if boot camp/basic training is what they make it out to be in Full Metal Jacket. I mean I know it's a movie and all, and that it was a different time period, but would anyone like Bones (even if he's in the Air Force) or someone in the military know what it's like?

[Bones4]

Don't take a job because you like the sound of it. Talk to people who do it. At least find reliable message boards.

I've always wondered if boot camp/basic training is what they make it out to be in Full Metal Jacket. I mean I know it's a movie and all, and that it was a different time period, but would anyone like Bones (even if he's in the Air Force) or someone in the military know what it's like?

The screaming and name calling? Yes. The hitting and stuff? No.

[Mikoyan]

I've always wondered if boot camp/basic training is what they make it out to be in Full Metal Jacket. I mean I know it's a movie and all, and that it was a different time period, but would anyone like Bones (even if he's in the Air Force) or someone in the military know what it's like?

shinji went into the army and said boot camp was NOTHING like FMJ lol.

[Visage]

I've always wondered if boot camp/basic training is what they make it out to be in Full Metal Jacket. I mean I know it's a movie and all, and that it was a different time period, but would anyone like Bones (even if he's in the Air Force) or someone in the military know what it's like?

I don't have specifics but back when FMJ was made marines were notoriously hard. Now all the boot camps are kind of standardized and basically all the same. The only difference is the army has a slightly higher requirement for running and marines an even higher requirement for running. In Air Force and Navy they test you on like 1.5 mile run, in the Army its 2 miles, and marines is 3 miles I believe.

Don't take a job because you like the sound of it. Talk to people who do it. At least find reliable message boards.

I've put like a month into this before I came to that job decision. It has a nice mix of being safe, having real world use and future, and it teaches a wide variety of fields. Also I really wanted a job that teaches you a foreign language just because, my recruiter says currently they need mandarin chinese and korean speakers I think I want to learn korean and get me that avg korean gf.

Also out of curiosity what did you get on the ASVAB bones?