Just out of Army bootcamp, at Ft Benning now

v8440

v8440

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Hi all,

I could swear I posted that I was about to go into the Army before I went on this site, but I'll be damned if I can find where I posted it. If not, I apologize for disappearing, as not posting here was accidental in the rush of getting ready to go. Anyway, I got through bootcamp at Ft Sill, and I'm now in GA waiting to class up for OCS. I was supposed to start Monday, but there were too many people waiting to class up-they only needed 55. So, they took the 55 people with the highest pt test score and cut the rest of us to try again in 3 weeks when the next class forms. I easily passed the test. Hell, I only needed 150 points and I scored 249. The cutoff was about 253. Real pisser, but nothing I can do about it. I lost 20 more lbs in bootcamp-I'm down to 167. Last pt test I took in bootcamp I ran a 14:45 2 mile, which is pretty decent for a 39 year old. Not nearly as fast as many of the younger guys though. Anyway, I'm still alive.
 
Dunno, you choose your branch at week 6. If I don't get to class up soon I may just get the hell out. I know that sounds extreme, but you'd have to know just how fucked up the system really is when it comes to classing up in OCS. It's designed to get rid of people by getting them to go away voluntarily. It's quite effective, actually. The Army has too many 2nd LT's and wants to commission fewer of them.
 
I almost joined the military at one point, when I was married. At the time, I was recruited for the Air Force, but once my ASVAB scores got spread among the five services, I was hounded for half a decade by every recruiter that could find me. The Air Force recruiter found me and pushed hard (he started out as a friend whose QuadraJet I'd tuned), but the Navy pushed the hardest, trying to get me into their nuclear-propulsion engineering program.

I went to work at Year One instead. No cars of interest in the Armed Forces. :D
 
Good for you. I know the Air Force pretty much opened up everything for us. Got Piggy military experience and an A&P license, which led to Northwest Airlines, which led to Chrysler (needed a degree and/or a technical license to get hired). Good luck with whatever you choose.
 
Jass, the armed forces did the same with me in '90 when I took the asvab the first time. Similar to you, the Navy came after me hard about coming in as a nuke...which I did. After I got academically dropped from ET A school (I had no study habits to speak of, and that shit is taught FAST!) I got crossrated to aircraft fueler and started the path I actually ended up taking while in the Navy. My score on the asvab at that time was 78. I took it again last year and got a 99. My Army recruiter almost popped a gasket when he saw that. It was pretty funny. Anyway, I'm seeing things the way they actually are here, and I think that if I don't get picked up in the next class I'm gonna chapter out. It's a no harm no foul chapter under those circumstances.
 
Chapter out, here I come. The pt cutoff score was 278, the highest it's ever been. The very existence of the pt cutoff score is testament to the Army's failure to plan intelligently. This cutoff is higher than the pt score required to enter special forces training. Absolutely retarded. They're also making life miserable one dumbass rule at a time in the holding company where we're trapped, presumably to impel us to give up and either go enlisted, or in the case of those who are eligible, chapter out. As you can see, they're really playing fair here, making sure that they don't cause their mistake (recruiting way too many people for OCS) to become our problem. So, I started the process of chaptering out.
 
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