Hmmmm... alot of BS running around about the ASVAB.
BTW Westy... I always remembered it as "ASFAB" because that's the way WE pronounced it. I wrinkled my brow at the "ASVAP" line myself. ASVAB seems like it's right in the middle, just where it should be. I'm a bit suprised Martlet is keying on that like it really matters.
I scored very high on the ASVAB too. High enough that I qualified for virtually any job in the Air Force that didn't require special language skills (I had none). That had little to do with anything in the grand scheme of things. Despite qualification, you are still limited to available jobs. And, all you really have to go on when deciding is the little one paragraph job description unless you have friends with more insite. Even with friends, you still have an extremely skewed perspective on things as I'm sure you found out once you joined.
Recruiters are also liars. But then, so are used car salesmen. How would a recruiter that joined the military and then became a recruiter know anything about getting into the FBI or CIA? "Military Service" comes in second behind "B.Y.U." (FBI) or "Notre Dame" (CIA).... well... maybe 3rd for the CIA since "Anapolis" would be there too which comes with it's own service. If the son were really that into being in the CIA or FBI, he would have known that himself. The military was his only real option and he would have taken it regardless. It's how it is for many. The recruiter could sit there and say nothing and it wouldn't have mattered.
I dunno, but the statements from the mother in the article look like the typical things a mother would say after her son was killed. The don't look informed, they don't look accurate, they don't really look like anything other than a mother trying to fit the loss of her son into an already firm political perspective.
