Any chance that I'll be stationed on a base if I take IT or CT? Which is more transferable to the civilian world
I dropped a 53 on my practice ASVAB. Free Daps, Reps and puzzy
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The Up Right Man
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Okay so as far as stationing, you will more than likely be stationed on a ship. Unless you get lucky. See the Navy has this thing called sea duty and shore duty, you have to have so many years out on ship before they station you to work on a base. Now just cause you stationed on a ship don't mean you going to be at sea all the time. So for example you could be stationed on a ship in cali, and would be out to sea for 8-9 months but once deployment is over you'll more than likely be import for a year. Now if you have shore duty you never go out to sea you just work in a building that does your rates job.
I don't know which job would be better, I only know ITs personally so I'd be biased to say IT. One of the guys I worked with was a IT and he had certs that translated into the civilian sector. The thing is he was a hard worker he went out on his own to get those. It's not like the Navy hands them to you for free, if you put in the work it will pay off.
How long you been in?
Jobs are NOT guaranteed lol. Your slots are merely held. The ONLY branch that guarantees your job is the Army. And its been that way for decades. There are numerous ways that the other branches try (and anything the DoD does to 'try' when it comes to personnel is never worth betting your future on) to keep that slot for you. Sometimes they'll delay your move to the next school, sometimes they'll offer you other schools in the same approximate field. Its NOT a guarantee though. Your contract time is. Your bonus time SOMETIMES is - depending on the conditions surrounding that bonus, you can easily fukk yourself out of it and have no chance of seeing it again.
50% of the people who take the ASVAB are retarded. You're trying to equate that with educational settings and that's flatly wrong. People who are homeless, mentally disabled, or flat out too dumb to live unassisted take the ASVAB. Millions of people. Being better than half of the overall pool is nothing to jump up and down about.
If you make E-5 in ANY branch in 3 years you are lucky. Plain and simple. Why? Because the entire promotion and progression system in all branches is designed against that. People know that I work out in Hawaii and basically make my own schedule while having plenty of time for class and fun but that's simply not even remotely a possibility for most. Someone trying to sign up? Not a fukking chance
They can't even process the politics and backdooring that had to occur for me to not only land this job, but for me keep it. People looking to join Dont. Know. shyt. about the military so when you say 'just research' 'i got on career and made e-5 in 3 years with my literally average asvab score, this is easy. listen and be like me' you have to realize you're setting them up for failure.Some kid hyped off a practice test doesn't even translate 'I researched then made my moves'.... breh I'm not shooting at @Dray5K but he doesn't even know how this stuff is scored or weighted and obviously has locked in on the Navy while knowing very, very little about the Navy and all the jobs he's interested in. He's a pure civilian with the hopes of joining. He doesn't even understand the concepts of shore time and fleet
breh
you ain't got any say over that shyt
If you're looking for civilian equivalent jobs after this I have no clue why you're not looking Army or AF either
The Up Right Man
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Breh,
1. 4 yearsHow long you been in?
Jobs are NOT guaranteed lol. Your slots are merely held. The ONLY branch that guarantees your job is the Army. And its been that way for decades. There are numerous ways that the other branches try (and anything the DoD does to 'try' when it comes to personnel is never worth betting your future on) to keep that slot for you. Sometimes they'll delay your move to the next school, sometimes they'll offer you other schools in the same approximate field. Its NOT a guarantee though. Your contract time is. Your bonus time SOMETIMES is - depending on the conditions surrounding that bonus, you can easily fukk yourself out of it and have no chance of seeing it again.
50% of the people who take the ASVAB are retarded. You're trying to equate that with educational settings and that's flatly wrong. People who are homeless, mentally disabled, or flat out too dumb to live unassisted take the ASVAB. Millions of people. Being better than half of the overall pool is nothing to jump up and down about.
If you make E-5 in ANY branch in 3 years you are lucky. Plain and simple. Why? Because the entire promotion and progression system in all branches is designed against that. People know that I work out in Hawaii and basically make my own schedule while having plenty of time for class and fun but that's simply not even remotely a possibility for most. Someone trying to sign up? Not a fukking chance
Some kid hyped off a practice test doesn't even translate 'I researched then made my moves'.... breh I'm not shooting at @Dray5K but he doesn't even know how this stuff is scored or weighted and obviously has locked in on the Navy while knowing very, very little about the Navy and all the jobs he's interested in. He's a pure civilian with the hopes of joining. He doesn't even understand the concepts of shore time and fleet
breh
you ain't got any say over that shyt
2.So the ASVAB doesn't have educational parts to the test? When did I try to equate it to educational settings?
3.So I'm lucky because I worked to achieve what others didn't? I'm luck to be selected for numerous awards that people who I worked with had the same opportunity? I'm lucky because I received top EVALs out of my division? Look man, men lie women lie numbers don't. You don't just get lucky over and over and over breh stop it.
5. Backdooring huh?
6. No I I never said he was going to be like me, I was telling him success is possible. Everything I said is possible for him, if he works at it.
7. That's why he is in here asking for advice, how do you expect him to know about this? First thing y'all talking about is score higher on the ASVAB, my guy there are cooks who scored 70+. ASVAB overall score don't equate to good or better quality jobs.
4 years ain't shyt
2. brehhhhhhhhh you are missing all of the point what I said about the ASVAB's PERCENTILE grading. Do you know what percentile means in the context of the ASVAB? It means where you stand among the millions of people who take it. Most of those who take it are, as I said, fukking retarded, disabled, and incapable of living unassisted. Its not an educational setting IE college, high school, etc. Where *gasp* people are actually guaranteed to be literate. That's how wide ranging the ASVAB's scoring is. There are people who take it who can't read past a 6th grade reading level. Fun fact - what reading level are the majority of technical manuals, training materials, and regulations across all branches written at? The answer will surprise you.
3. You don't understand how lucky you are to even have the opportunity is what I'm saying. You think you're the only person to work hard in the military? To score well?
This is why 3rd year E5s don't know shyt and are fukking up our military
Everyone knows success is possible, duh. But don't start by short selling people on some 'I did average like you and did great!'
the fukk kinda shyt is that? And you keep shooting at cooks too
breh, culinary can make GOOD money if that's the career path you actually want to take. I never understood why people shyt on cooks so much. One of the managers at the Ko Olina out here was a former cook. Dude is making bank please stop. But the ASVAB is about options. 50, no matter how you cut it, LIMITS those options.
Best advice in this thread was someone telling people to wait and get in ahead of the graduating high school seniors. Next is everybody else telling him to go back and take that fukking test again and stop playing
2. brehhhhhhhhh you are missing all of the point what I said about the ASVAB's PERCENTILE grading. Do you know what percentile means in the context of the ASVAB? It means where you stand among the millions of people who take it. Most of those who take it are, as I said, fukking retarded, disabled, and incapable of living unassisted. Its not an educational setting IE college, high school, etc. Where *gasp* people are actually guaranteed to be literate. That's how wide ranging the ASVAB's scoring is. There are people who take it who can't read past a 6th grade reading level. Fun fact - what reading level are the majority of technical manuals, training materials, and regulations across all branches written at? The answer will surprise you.
3. You don't understand how lucky you are to even have the opportunity is what I'm saying. You think you're the only person to work hard in the military? To score well?
This is why 3rd year E5s don't know shyt and are fukking up our military
Everyone knows success is possible, duh. But don't start by short selling people on some 'I did average like you and did great!'
the fukk kinda shyt is that? And you keep shooting at cooks too
breh, culinary can make GOOD money if that's the career path you actually want to take. I never understood why people shyt on cooks so much. One of the managers at the Ko Olina out here was a former cook. Dude is making bank please stop. But the ASVAB is about options. 50, no matter how you cut it, LIMITS those options. Best advice in this thread was someone telling people to wait and get in ahead of the graduating high school seniors. Next is everybody else telling him to go back and take that fukking test again and stop playing
O.T.I.S.
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Ofcourse I agree
And what you think I'm telling him? How to fukk up and struggle in the Navy?
I'm telling him shyt off of experience, I was in 8 years and made E5 in 3 as well. You was air crew so I respect your opinion, but I was in the fleet and telling him shyt ain't no better regardless. I had shyt commands, shyt CO's.. I went through hell but only got out because I broke both legs on some dumb shyt. But it could always be worse
To me, from the nikkas I know did aircrew and on the Air side of the navy that switched to the surface side, they was cool af and regretted switching.
The Up Right Man
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I was surface also. How you break your legs man? Did you fall down the ladder well, those things was ending careers?
O.T.I.S.
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4 years ain't shyt
2. brehhhhhhhhh you are missing all of the point what I said about the ASVAB's PERCENTILE grading. Do you know what percentile means in the context of the ASVAB? It means where you stand among the millions of people who take it. Most of those who take it are, as I said, fukking retarded, disabled, and incapable of living unassisted. Its not an educational setting IE college, high school, etc. Where *gasp* people are actually guaranteed to be literate. That's how wide ranging the ASVAB's scoring is. There are people who take it who can't read past a 6th grade reading level. Fun fact - what reading level are the majority of technical manuals, training materials, and regulations across all branches written at? The answer will surprise you.
3. You don't understand how lucky you are to even have the opportunity is what I'm saying. You think you're the only person to work hard in the military? To score well?
This is why 3rd year E5s don't know shyt and are fukking up our military
Everyone knows success is possible, duh. But don't start by short selling people on some 'I did average like you and did great!'
the fukk kinda shyt is that? And you keep shooting at cooks too
Best advice in this thread was someone telling people to wait and get in ahead of the graduating high school seniors. Next is everybody else telling him to go back and take that fukking test again and stop playing
I laughed at the bolded
I heard that shyt many times... But I respected it too. It's why I didn't try hard AT ALL to make E6. Financially i was good, I loved being an E5. My homies are/were E6's and I didn't want to play that game and my commands knew how I would be.
And I was originally going in as a CS. I was working as a cook at a bar at the time so I was just gonna stay with that, but I scored high enough to where my recruiter told me to go in as a IT
CS's are the shyt on a boat though. You make friends with everybody. I was IT, CS's used to save us food and shyt, SK's would give us shyt out the store, etc.
And most of us met on the smoke deck. You would be out there smoking with the CMC and shyt
O.T.I.S.
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Nah it was strictly random af. I didn't even know it. I was just doing my normal shyt (PT, playing flag football, command soccer, etc) and my legs were bothering me something crazy.
I was told it was shin splints so I just ran through it. One day I just decided to get it looked at because it was fukking up all my shyt. They told me after a CT scan that my legs were fractured. They did surgery on both and I had surgery on my hand and was never the same since
The Up Right Man
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Dang man sorry to hear that man, hope you feeling better man
O.T.I.S.
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Appreciate the love and positive energy
I'm straight tho man. I seen enough nikkas in worse positions so I just go with the flow. As long as my money coming in you not gonna hear me complain about nothing.
That mental shyt is real though, thats one thing I will speak out about.
The Up Right Man
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Yeah I agree man, being in the military I feel does something to a man mentally. I came in with certain ideology, and left thinking and acting different.
Black Sinatra
Raised Glass to the Squandered Potentials..
Brang that ass to the Army breh.
No homo. Fuk all the bullshyt. You trying to be stuck on the sea breh?
I have heard on good authority that the Navy Cacism is harsher compared to Ground Forces too. We got that, but you can knock a Cac the fukk out and keep it pushin. The Navy will hang your ass and put you in box until you shore up.
We about to up recruitment too.
With $$$ deals.
I got soldiers right now that are getting 10k checks to extend service for 12 months breh. We trying to get the Army numbers up a couple hundred thousand.
Do you tho.
No homo. Fuk all the bullshyt. You trying to be stuck on the sea breh?I have heard on good authority that the Navy Cacism is harsher compared to Ground Forces too. We got that, but you can knock a Cac the fukk out and keep it pushin. The Navy will hang your ass and put you in box until you shore up.
We about to up recruitment too.
With $$$ deals.
I got soldiers right now that are getting 10k checks to extend service for 12 months breh. We trying to get the Army numbers up a couple hundred thousand.
Do you tho.
Goddamnit I love TheColi
This wouldn't have happened without all of you
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@everyone else from the various threads where I asked about the service
God bless you all