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[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Yeah, that’s it.

I don’t get your troll shtick, but if it amuses you go for it.

Who's trolling?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

She/he is not military. How do you not know that?

Try again.

Reading is Fundamental

Allowing mentally ill people into the uniformed services....

Now, any comments on the article about the Navy lowering standards to now accept literal retards into the service? Any thoughts about that, and about how that jibes with your assertion that standards are NOT being lowered?

Got any cites backing your claim standards are not being lowered?

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

I didn't say he was.

Now you don't seem to know what a military officer actually is. Nice going there sport.

I guess I just hallucinated you typed she/he there. BTW - I never mentioned anything about his military status.

[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

I guess I just hallucinated you typed she/he there. BTW - I never mentioned anything about his military status.

And yet that's the post you were responding to. Since you weren't actually responding to it, then you were just trolling. Again. As usual. Troll.

[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

Reading is Fundamental



Now, any comments on the article about the Navy lowering standards to now accept literal retards into the service? Any thoughts about that, and about how that jibes with your assertion that standards are NOT being lowered?

Got any cites backing your claim standards are not being lowered?

You don't seem to understand what that article even says. They replaced one test, with a different one.

Please show where it says they "accept literal retards into the service." Did you get rejected for service? Is that it?

[Louie Detroit]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

And yet that's the post you were responding to. Since you weren't actually responding to it, then you were just trolling. Again. As usual. Troll.

Dude, what alternate universe are you operating from? Some of the stuff you say is just weird.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

You don't seem to understand what that article even says. They replaced one test, with a different one.

Please show where it says they "accept literal retards into the service." Did you get rejected for service? Is that it?

Here's another article explaining things using even smaller words:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-...more-recruits/

Navy lowers entrance exam requirements in bid to get more recruits
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Dec 6, 2022


As the military struggles to attract new recruits, the Navy on Monday began a pilot program that will let in those who have lower scores on part of the entrance exam used to gauge a recruit’s ability to serve.

Potential sailors are required to take the Armed Forces Qualification Test, or AFQT, to determine whether they are qualified to serve, as part of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, better known as the ASVAB.

Under the Navy’s pilot program, the service will accept lower scores on the AFQT, between the 10th and 30th percentile, as long as the prospective sailor’s ASVAB individual line scores are still high enough to qualify for a Navy rating.

“The change means that prospective Sailors who have high enough ASVAB line scores to qualify for a Navy rating will not be held back by a low AFQT score, which can vary relative to how their peers did on the test,” Navy Recruiting Command spokesman Cmdr. David Benham said in an email.

An individual’s qualifications for various Navy ratings are based on 10 different ASVAB scores that help the service identify where a sailor would best fit within the fleet. Such job determinations are not based on their overall AFQT score, Benham said.

“To qualify for enlistment, the individual must still meet the minimum line score requirement for a given Navy rating,” Benham said. “These ASVAB line score requirements are unchanged by this policy, and they are not waiverable.”

Facing dire recruiting realities, Navy raises max enlistment age to 41
Recruits will have to arrive to boot camp by their 42nd birthday, officials said.
By Geoff Ziezulewicz

Those who fall within the lower AFQT percentiles must have already graduated high school, and the Navy plans to offer this exemption for up to 20 percent of its accessions, Benham said.

The pilot program will run through the rest of fiscal 2023 and be re-evaluated in October.

“As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment, changing the AFQT requirement removes a potential barrier to enlistment, allowing us to widen the pool of potential recruits and creating opportunities for personnel who wish to serve,” Benham said.

The test score change announcement comes after the Navy raised its maximum enlistment age to 41 last month, up from 39.

The sea service barely made its active-duty enlisted recruiting goal for FY22, which ended Sept. 30, bringing in just 42 bodies more than the goal of 33,400 new members.

So again.....LOWERED STANDARDS that now will make up up to 20% pf the accessions.

[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

Here's another article explaining things using even smaller words:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-...more-recruits/




So again.....LOWERED STANDARDS that now will make up up to 20% pf the accessions.

Waiting for the “literal retard” part.

Did you get denied for service?

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by Louie Detroit

Dude, what alternate universe are you operating from? Some of the stuff you say is just weird.

He’s a troll. A pretty good one. He thrives on the attention he gets. It got him permanently banned from CF, so he brought his act here. Ignore him, he’ll go somewhere else.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Yes, I missed the word “federal.”

Is this your final answer? Because it didn't make it any more accurate.

Not all companies doing business with the Federal Government have to have an affirmative action plan.

Do you dispute my statement?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Waiting for the “literal retard” part.

Did you get denied for service?

How would you describe the bottom 10% of test takers? How would you like to be on a ship and the guys next to you that you depend on to stay alive and stay safe were bottom 10%'ers?



And just to set your mind at ease, I didn't apply, or serve. I came of age during the Reagan years when, except for that little dust up in Grenada, the US was at relative peace.

[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by aerovette

Is this your final answer? Because it didn't make it any more accurate.

Not all companies doing business with the Federal Government have to have an affirmative action plan.

Do you dispute my statement?

No. If you have under 50 employees you are exempt.

Do you think the OP was describing a place with under 50 employees?

[TheRealBadger]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

How would you describe the bottom 10% of test takers? How would you like to be on a ship and the guys next to you that you depend on to stay alive and stay safe were bottom 10%'ers?



And just to set your mind at ease, I didn't apply, or serve. I came of age during the Reagan years when, except for that little dust up in Grenada, the US was at relative peace.

I would not describe someone who’s till has the ASVAB score as a literal retard. Please show the link to the literal retard requirement.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

When you cover the required deposits and liquidate the assets, this was highly likely to be a wash since the beginning. Good for the markets. System works if true.

As long as stockholders and creditors get same treatment as depositors. They own the assets as well. So no, it's highly unlikely to be a wash.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

No. If you have under 50 employees you are exempt.

Do you think the OP was describing a place with under 50 employees?

I simply showed you where YOU were wrong. I was not referencing the original post, only yours.

[Louie Detroit]

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[Vette40th]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Care to share a link on that?

I was having dinner with a 1 and 3 star admiral in October and met with the sec of the Navy during the football game. They did not indicate that standards were lowered.

Admirals are out of touch with the lower ranks and the things needed to get done. They are politicians.
SecNav is same.. Dont think they understand that a ship needs to train the person every day the whole time he/she is underway, and in port.
It takes allot of teamwork to overcome someone lacking basic English and Math skills.

[Vette40th]

It’s worth mentioning that the Fed coming to the rescue of the occupants like firefighters beloved everywhere should be kept in context with the fact that the very same firefighter saviours are the arsonists responsible for starting the fire in the first place and standing by and watching it grow.

The Fed’s own 3% upper target for inflation was exceeded and the Fed failed to start slowly raising rates in April 2021, calling the inflationary “fires” transitory.

Once the inflationary fires grew, the entire house caught on fire.

So occupants have been saved, the firefighters are being praised, and the house the firefighters lit on fire is still burning.

At least that’s how I’m looking at it.

So when does SVB’s old Chief Risk Officer and Risk Committee get waterboarded?

I’d argue that crimes of mass financial destruction should carry penalties similar to that involving weapons of mass destruction.

Although I could see a radical environmentalist Pol Pot composting the affluent and wealthy with it.

[Old Ben]

Originally Posted by TheRealBadger

Care to share a link on that?

I was having dinner with a 1 and 3 star admiral in October and met with the sec of the Navy during the football game. They did not indicate that standards were lowered.

You do know that you can use Google to get information about that....Don't you..

[Vette40th]

HSBC just bought the SVB UK division for 1.3 Billion.
Government creates problem, then solves it, awww