U.S. ARMY: No GED, high school diploma needed to apply

[rebewranger]

U.S. ARMY: No GED, high school diploma needed to apply
Matthew Self - Yesterday 6:26 PM
 
UNITED STATES (KSNT) – The U.S. Army has announced that it has temporarily changed the requirements necessary for new recruits to apply, on Friday.

 27 News spoke with a U.S. Army recruiter in Topeka on Friday regarding the update. According to the recruiter, new applicants can enlist without a high school diploma or General Education Development (GED).
 
This update applies to the regular army and will only be in effect for 2022 until the physical year ends for the U.S. Army on October 1. All applicants must meet Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) qualifications, be at least 18 years of age at the time of enlistment and score at least a 50 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test.

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According to the Army recruiter, applicants must be able to leave in this year if they want to apply. If the applicant hasn’t received a high school diploma or GED after they enter the U.S. Army, resources are available to help applicants get them at a later date.

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[rebewranger]

15 Years ago the military considered anyone who couldn't read at the 9th grade level to be functionally illiterate,  Why?  So much was done with computers and computers are written at the ninth grade level.  Now the military will accept any dumb *ss who breathes.  It reminds me of Viet Nam.

[catfish1957]

Bad precedent setting move.

[sneakypete]

15 Years ago the military considered anyone who couldn't read at the 9th grade level to be functionally illiterate,  Why?  So much was done with computers and computers are written at the ninth grade level.  Now the military will accept any dumb *ss who breathes.  It reminds me of Viet Nam.

@rangerrebew

I enlisted in the US Army at age 17,with a guarantee of attending jump school.

I did NOT have a high school diploma.

While in the army I DID take a test that got me AWARDED a high school diploma,as well as another test that got me awarded the equivalent of 2 years on college.

Which meant I was able to go to SF,which made me a REALLY happy camper.

BTW,IF I have to,I will state the obvious. Having a high school diploma is NOT a sign of intelligence. It just means you were good at attending school. School started boring the snot out of me when I was in the 8th grade. Earlier,actually,but by the 8th grade it became unbearable.

So unbearable I turned down an offer of 4 years of free college if I stayed in high school long enough to graduate,and I saw that as adding time to a prison sentence,and I was already serving time and innocent.

And "Yes,I WAS one of those dumb-asses who volunteered for VN,and even extended my tour instead of coming back to the US when it ended. That turned out to be THE biggest mistake of my life,due to Agent Orange infestation,but ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances,right?

[sneakypete]

Bad precedent setting move.

@catfish1957

I disagree. There are people who are just not mentally or emotionally prepared to waste that much time in their lives. I was one of them. One of my happiest days was when I turned old enough to quit high school and join the army. Would have done it years earlier if I could have.

[PeteS in CA]

A CinC-puppet and string-pullers who regard military personnel as expendable idiots isn't a boon for recruiting? Who'd athunk it?

[Sighlass]

Young man who goes to our church offered to teach my boys some leather-craft last week. Wife had done him a favor and he wanted to repay it. He is half Hispanic and smart as a whip and was in the military (didn't get branch, think it was Army). Anyhoo, he said he was put in a teaching position (without the pay raise) and what stopped him from re-enlisting was just how unteachable (stupid) the new recruits were. Their attention spans were so annoying short it just irked him, so much so that he said my 12 y/o was a joy to teach over the current recruits.

[sneakypete]

Young man who goes to our church offered to teach my boys some leather-craft last week. Wife had done him a favor and he wanted to repay it. He is half Hispanic and smart as a whip and was in the military (didn't get branch, think it was Army). Anyhoo, he said he was put in a teaching position (without the pay raise) and what stopped him from re-enlisting was just how unteachable (stupid) the new recruits were. Their attention spans were so annoying short it just irked him, so much so that he said my 12 y/o was a joy to teach over the current recruits.

@Sighlass

I COULD easily be wrong about this because I am basically pulling it out of my ass,but *I* SUSPECT that if pushed into a corner most of those kids have the mental ability of kids their age decades ago.

What has changed was everyone from MY generation and earlier were told to work hard,study,and do well in school so they could have good jobs/well-paying careers as adults.

The kids today don't get that because they know they can go to school and do nothing but take naps all day,and still pass.

If you raise them to be slackers with zero ambition as a kid,don't be surprised when they are slackers as an adult.

Hell,look at Biden and over his entire career. One lie after another,and he has never done an honest day of work in his entire life,and he is a multi-millionaire and the President of the US.

IMNSHO,it ain't the kids of today as much as it is the system of today.

[Bigun]

If today's Army was still like the Army I was in this would turn around the lives of many young men but alas, it is NOT the same Army.

[libertybele]

Young man who goes to our church offered to teach my boys some leather-craft last week. Wife had done him a favor and he wanted to repay it. He is half Hispanic and smart as a whip and was in the military (didn't get branch, think it was Army). Anyhoo, he said he was put in a teaching position (without the pay raise) and what stopped him from re-enlisting was just how unteachable (stupid) the new recruits were. Their attention spans were so annoying short it just irked him, so much so that he said my 12 y/o was a joy to teach over the current recruits.

Wow. Very sad and very pathetic.

[catfish1957]

@catfish1957

I disagree. There are people who are just not mentally or emotionally prepared to waste that much time in their lives. I was one of them. One of my happiest days was when I turned old enough to quit high school and join the army. Would have done it years earlier if I could have.

I understand the exceptions, but when downgraded precedented standards are allowed, it is a slippery slope towards mediocrity or worse.

[mountaineer]

No basic math or English skills needed in today's Army; transgendered or queer status preferred.

[sneakypete]

No basic math or English skills needed in today's Army; transgendered or queer status preferred.

@mountaineer

My experience in the regular army after being medievaced from VN and forced out of SF and into the regular army due to physical profiles was that the regular army was like that in 1970. I wasn't  a leader as a NCO,I was a freaking baby-sitter. This is what caused me to get out,despite being offered another stripe if I would re-enlist.

[jafo2010]

Take a hard look at the mediocrity of the Russian Army in Ukraine.  We are headed down the same path.  In the USSR/Russia, people got jobs and received compensation without really working.  There is no work ethic in Russia.  Everything is expected to be handed with zero performance.  Now we as a society are on that same destructive path.

It is all by design.

[sneakypete]

Take a hard look at the mediocrity of the Russian Army in Ukraine.  We are headed down the same path.  In the USSR/Russia, people got jobs and received compensation without really working.  There is no work ethic in Russia.  Everything is expected to be handed with zero performance.  Now we as a society are on that same destructive path.

It is all by design.

@jafo2010

Government as daddy,mama,and babysitter. Weeze the childrun and day tells uz whut ta do n whin ta do hit.