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**Borrinas** · 12-07-2011, 08:50 PM

And you are IN the Army? It happens ALL the time... Score and 18 (or 16) on the ASVAB? Really REALLY want to join the Army? 11Bravo... Female? Hmmm, I think you can drive a truck (might be a medical job available with scores that low too-can't remember). The point is that it happens to males ALL THE TIME... but for some reason you think it would be wrong to have females who can't get a decent score on the ASVAB to have the same thing happen to them.

You said they shouldn't be forced into infantry. For males with the same scores, that is their only "choice." Why should someone have more choices just because they are female? Ummmthey have always HAD standards, they just kept lowering them to get more people qualified... And yeah, a 16 was good enough. To hell you don't, if you bomb the ASVAB, you can join the Army and not be an 11B, a dude gets the exact same score=11B.

Okay so what I meant was that some people in the past have commented that they think as soon as it's open for females, they'll be forced to do it. Oh and no one is "forced" to do it. If they don't want that job then they don't "have" to join the Army. If they want to be in the Army that bad, well then I guess that's what they get. But I don't know too many people who wanted to be in the Army that bad. I thought you had to score at least a 50 on the ASVAB just to get in the Army? Medical jobs I think you have to score higher than that.

Yeah if a female gets a 16 on the ASVAB she CAN'T be infantry. That's not her fault. That's Congress' fault. So if you can get in the Army on a 16 and if infantry is the only job available and IF a male or female wants to join the Army THAT badly, then yes they would choose that. But no one is forcing them to - that's just the standard for that MOS. But since females aren't allowed to be in the MOS, then how is that our fault we don't get put in it?

12-07-2011, 08:50 PM	#18
Borrinas Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 452 Senior Member	And you are IN the Army? It happens ALL the time... Score and 18 (or 16) on the ASVAB? Really REALLY want to join the Army? 11Bravo... Female? Hmmm, I think you can drive a truck (might be a medical job available with scores that low too-can't remember). The point is that it happens to males ALL THE TIME... but for some reason you think it would be wrong to have females who can't get a decent score on the ASVAB to have the same thing happen to them. You said they shouldn't be forced into infantry. For males with the same scores, that is their only "choice." Why should someone have more choices just because they are female? Ummmthey have always HAD standards, they just kept lowering them to get more people qualified... And yeah, a 16 was good enough. To hell you don't, if you bomb the ASVAB, you can join the Army and not be an 11B, a dude gets the exact same score=11B. Okay so what I meant was that some people in the past have commented that they think as soon as it's open for females, they'll be forced to do it. Oh and no one is "forced" to do it. If they don't want that job then they don't "have" to join the Army. If they want to be in the Army that bad, well then I guess that's what they get. But I don't know too many people who wanted to be in the Army that bad. I thought you had to score at least a 50 on the ASVAB just to get in the Army? Medical jobs I think you have to score higher than that. Yeah if a female gets a 16 on the ASVAB she CAN'T be infantry. That's not her fault. That's Congress' fault. So if you can get in the Army on a 16 and if infantry is the only job available and IF a male or female wants to join the Army THAT badly, then yes they would choose that. But no one is forcing them to - that's just the standard for that MOS. But since females aren't allowed to be in the MOS, then how is that our fault we don't get put in it?
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