Omg, I'm nervous and excited. I decided I'm going to join the Airforce, the recruiter is coming over today to do some paperwork than next week I go to meps, next summer I leave. lol, I'm trying to be a computer programmer and I have to pass a hard data-processing test. Wish me the best of luck guys! I'll be sure to put my paychecks to something good, such as websites other people made that do make some money . I'm going for maybe four years.
Good luck, aim high and may the force be with you.... haha I'm prior Air Force, it can be a good thing. I hope it works out for you.
I was in the RAF and fixed ground to air radar's (well kicked them to get them working) Was the best thing I did although at the end I bought myself out Good luck and remember get fit before you go as it makes life alot easy at basic training You will hate it sometime and love it other times but at the end of the day you will meet a massive amount of different people and install common sense into you Oh your doing the right thing by joining a trade as at least you can get a job when you come out
Thank you everyone for your support. For the job I want I have to take a test that nobody in the northwest has ever passed. I'm nervous but I believe I can do it. The test is a data-processing and logic test. I need to get a score of 71, 128 questions in 90 minutes. Not all have to be completed but I do need to get a score of 71. Too bad there are no study materials for it. Anybody have some tips? The recruiter said that if I do not pass this test than I can get a job very similar.
Just remember that some recruiters are just like used car salesman - they will tell you anything, just get it in writing (which still doesn't guarantee anything) LOL
Good luck to you. Better get those automated sites up and running and pay for them for 4+ years and see how they do while you were gone. I was actually going to join the Army as a Counter Intelligence Agent and I scored exceptionally well on the ASVAB I think was mid 90's but I decided the military wasn't for me.
ah em, If you really want to benefit from your time in the service, try to pick one with the financial backing to benefit you. In the Navy and Army you can make E-6 in less than 6 years. Which means more responsibility and more training, and of course more money to pay your bills (I had E-5's with family's on food stamps working for me. ). IMHO Air Force and Marines are too small and specialized, therefore too many closed billets. Just my observation when I was deciding back in 86. Good luck in what ever you do, and you can only live up to the expectations you set for yourself, so set them high! tom
Good luck, kc3!! Be sure to score with some hot air force women! I hear many of them are really hot...and ready for action! http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10102000/10102100.jpg Recruiters are weasels! We used to really screw with those goofballs when I was in high school. "Yeah, I'm not interested but my buddy Mike is! He's always talking about joining the marines and killing our enemies and stuff. Here's his phone number." And then I would give him my friend Mike's phone number.
Good luck man. Yeah it’s really sad that a lot of our military are on food stamps. I mean we’ve got people risking their lives for our country and they are reduced to having to use food stamps.
Thanks, yeah, I scored very high in the areas on my asvabs that the Air Force wanted. I very much plan on not getting married or having kids for a while and I've always been good at keeping with things like that. Perhaps they were on food stamps for another reason, such as being very poor at managing their finances. Either way, I'll be making enough for a single guy and I don't believe in food stamps. I'll starve before I'll use food stamps. lol Though, starting out as an E-1 you'd be making About 11 hundred a month, but that's with everything paid for. And in the air force you get the chow hall that's open all the time. So why would a soldier need food stamps unless they have a large family? My dad was in the military and was an E-4 with a wife and two kids at the time. My dad never made it to an E-5 because the points were too high sadly.
Rob, was it your friend Mike Hawk or Mike Hunt? Yeah some of the recruiters are real sleazy. They had a recruiter come in and give all a military aptitude test my senior year in high school. I scored really well and this recruiter would not leave me alone. He was like a horny drunk sailor on shore leave, he wouldn’t take no for an answer. I lived in the country so he didn’t know where my house was located. Finally, after repeated telephone calls to my house for directions to my house I finally gave him directions to the middle of nowhere. He called me the next day and said he spent all night looking for my house. I told him he should have took a left instead of a right and hung up. He finally stopped calling after that.
lol, omg, yeah, the Army guy was the first one to contact me. I took the ASVABs junior year and scored realy high. He tried to convince me to not join the Air Force. lol, though as of next week I won't be able to change my mind.
Yeah the army recruiter made me feel dirty. He spent way too much time trying to get high school boys into his “recruiting vanâ€.
He seriously had a recruiting van? Oh, and my friend's name WAS Mike Hawk. I used to yell, "Hey, you suck, Mike Hawk!"
I was a Junior in High School and stayed up partying the night before and took the test all messed up. ASVAB 71 is easy to get. Now also passing the NFQT hungover is was funny too. You'll do fine, if you don't fall asleep on the test. tom
It's not the ASVABs I need to get a 71 (the ASVABs were realy easy), I got higher than that already and one of the highest in my school. It's the Electronic Data Processing Test. http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/joiningup/a/edpt.htm Nobody in the Northwest has passed it yet, but I sure hope that I do. lol
Ha Ha Ha, you enjoy your time in the military as a rich boy. Remember GOOD LUCK and have fun! And most of all, enjoy these premilitary memories. I went in thinking I was making boo coo bucks as an E-3 with an E-4 around the corner in under a year in the miltary, and after doing 6 years, I can say to you..... Good luck. tom