• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    11 months ago

    My high school made us take the ASVAB. I ended up with an 88, and it took threats of harassment charges to stop all 3 major branches from just showing up at my house unannounced.

    They also straight up lied when trying to get me to join the reserves, saying I’d never be called to active duty. But, they had already been calling reserves to active duty in Afghanistan/Iraq. Idk why they thought I’d be dumb enough to believe them, considering they wanted me because of my test score.

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      11 months ago

      I got something stupid like a 96 on the ASVAB and I just told the first air force guy I smoked a lot of weed and I never heard from any military again lmao

      It was tempting when they offered me to go right into a program to become a satellite operator starting off making $125k/year immediately after boot camp… but I don’t regret not taking that offer. Who knows what would have actually materialized, anyways. Probably would have been 6 years deep dreaming of hopefully seeing 6 figures one day while I end up managing logistics or something.

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      11 months ago

      Idk why they thought I’d be dumb enough to believe them,

      It’s literally their job to lie and there’s a good chance this is a lie they were successfully sold when they joined.

      The US Military is basically just an MLM that ends with your kneecaps blown off in a friendly fire incident.