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To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (655157)3/25/2018 9:59:08 AM
From: greenspirit   of 793927
 
What Peterson must be referring to is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test. I have never seen it correlated to I.Q. but I suppose it could be. It's designed to measure your strengths and weaknesses for potential future success and provide a logical path toward a military occupation.

There is a low score cut off point for the various services. In the Army and Marines I believe it's 30. Navy and Air Force 50. But the scores can be waived depending on the needs of the service. Having a high school diploma or not impacts the waiver process. If one has a high school diploma, the waiver is more likely to occur. With a GED, not so often.

Specific occupations in the armed service require levels of ASVAB score to quality. In the Navy for instance; at the high end is Nuclear Power, one needs to do very well in the math portions of the ASVAB in order to quality to take the nuclear power exam. After which, one has to pass the nuc exam in order to be initially excepted into the program. That's the most difficult field to quality for. On the low end are the Mess Specialist (Cooks) and Boatswains Mates. They cook the food, BM's drive the small boats and maintain the exterior of the ship. All other rates fall somewhere in between with various combinations of score determining whether someone fits a rate.

For those who followed the recent collision incidents in the Navy, one of the areas the fleet may have overlooked is how technology drove change to the QM and OS rate, while not simultaneously changing the ASVAB score requirements of those rates. QM's were typically at the lower end of the ASVAB requirement and now they operate sophisticated software. This may require higher ASVAB scores on average to succeed. Of course, training plays a bit part of the gap too, so it's not an easy evaluation to make.

Just some background info on the topic...

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