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Originally Posted by GEIST LS9
this is gonna be a long post bear with me 
Funny you should mention another branch because I originally intended on joinging the NAVY and due to the fact that I originally told them I had a GED and no college(At the time I didn't realize that going to a technical school counted as such to the military,so I left that out.)I took the ASVAB for the navy in July of this year mind you I had went down in weight from 352lbs when I started in August of 2008 to in July of 2009 at a scant 200lbs.I also obtained an ASVAB Study guide in January of 2009 and studied for 6 months.
At the time the minimum score for all branches including the air force
was 50/99.I took the test and scored a 68/99.soon afterwards I started bugging my recuiter to let me join.He and his superiors couldn't do anything to help me due to the fact that they had met their quota of GED people for the fiscal year.their fiscal year starts in october,so I being impatient contacted an ARMY recuiter and he tells me that with a GED i gotta have 15 credits of 500 clock hours worth of college.I had told him I went to a technical school in NJ where I'm from for a full year(12 months) and graduated.he had to look into what "teir" my school was catagorized and he'd get back to me.I thought it was just for the ARMY with the college credit thing so i asked my navy recuiter about it and he said the same thing and my navy recuiter told me I had to get the transcripts from NJ and him to look up if my school qualifies me to get into Navy.My navy recuiter never does look up the info.meanwhile I tell the army recuiter I would have to think about the descion to either stay with the navy and wait till god knows when or sit down and talk to the army about joining..about 2 months later I come up to my navy recuiter and ask him if any ged slots became available and he tells me due to the economy and such the navy raised its minmum score to 70!!(70/99) so now i'm faced with a messed up descion either retake the test and risk getting a worse score and have that remain as my ultimate score or possibly best my score and make it to 70/99 or above or join the army.
After I sat down with the Army recuiter he looked up at the schools i had went to.the place where i got my ged and tech school and both of them where teir one schools which qualified me as a high school graduate and not to mention i had 60 college credits with the tech school.
All my navy recuiter could have done was look up the info,offered me a job(one that i feel i could at least)and things would have been done.
it's kinda messed up that i put forth so much effort into doing what they told me i had to do cuz they saw me over the course of 11 months me loose 45% of my body weight and take and pass the test.I think they missed out on having a good asset on their team  |
I'm a Navy recruiter.
The minimum scores for all the branches are in the 30's. The Navy is 35. However we have been instructed not to take anyone down with less then a 50. In fact recently I think they bumped that up to a 65, but that's something the individual recruiting district would decide. The reason...there aren't any jobs available that any score less then that would qualify for. Also, unless you qualify for Nuclear Power or Navy SEAL, you aren't getting in, unless someone else gets kicked out. The Navy has become very picky about who they allow in now, because we are overmanned and we can't let everyone in that wants to be in.
It's not the recruiters job to look up your info. You should have given him your high school transcripts, GED certificate, and tech school transcripts. He would have then faxed them down to his education specialist who would have made the determination.
It is also not the recruiters job to offer you specific jobs in the Navy, that happens when you go down and take your physical and talk to a jobs counselor.
And how tall are you? Because 200lbs is still a little heavy, unless you're over 6'. I do give you props for the dedication you showed in losing all that weight. Most wouldn't have been able to do that. But if you're over the weight limit for your given height they can find out what your B/F% is and as long as it's under 25% you're good.
Keep this in mind also. Different branches have different standards and policies on who they allow in. Just because the Army says you're good to join, doesn't mean you qualify for the Navy. The Air Force for instance requires credit checks on everybody and if you have bad credit...no AF for you.
Best case scenario for the Navy would have been you under the B/F% and your tech school credits overcome your GED status. With your score all you could have done really is take the physical for the Navy and wait for them to call when they have an opening. This would usually only happen when someone else get's kicked out or they take a chance and send you down at the beginning of the month hoping there's a job available that they can slide you into.
It's not the recruiters fault, it's all the guys above him telling him who he can put in. No offense, but if it's between you and someone that scores a 90+ on the ASVAB, graduated high school, with no police trouble and wants to be a SEAL or Nuclear Power his boss' will tell him to put in the 90+. It's mostly out of his hands.
I'm happy that you were able to get into the military though. It will definitely help you out and give you a chance to have a guaranteed job for the next 4 years, which in this economy is golden. Ok my
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