Fact: Most soldiers now in Iraq were bad students - Page 2 - GoFuckYourself.com

Splum · 11-02-2006, 04:54 PM

And Democrats wonder why they keep losing elections.

OutSourceThis · 11-02-2006, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by tony404

if the military was so wonderful they wouldnt of had to lower the requirements to get in or raise the age where now you can join the army up to 42.

I'll address your dumbass too!

No one ever said the military was "wonderful"...far from it. The reason the age limits were adjusted is because our gov got us into a war they didn't plan well for. How do you keep troop levels without a draft? You adjust the age limits for the people who want to join the military.

EZRhino · 11-02-2006, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Libertine

Actually, the military tried to recruit me when I came out of high school. My degree would have gotten me straight into officer's training, and the moment I joined up I would have been an officer.

Nice try, though

Sorry asshole, you would have never made it through OCS. This fucking knuckle head thinks that just having a degree gets him his butter bars.

Libertine · 11-03-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by OutSourceThis

You truely are in your own little world! Do you really believe the horse shit you are shoveling? To insinuate that the only reason someone would need to "work" to to pay for college is because their academic merit was lower then others?...
In the real world (this doesn't include yours) people even the best and brightest can't always get a scholarship to pay their way.

I'm amazed at your twisted logic. You are obviously a very highly intelligent person. I have found most people like you, are called book smart. Which means you lack real world knowledge, street smarts and the most basic common sense. (something our lowly privates over in Iraq have...Guess they are one up on you)

You are absolutely right. I am "book smart". That is to say, I am intelligent and have a good education. I do have real world knowledge, though, but it only covers certain parts of the world. The same goes for everyone, of course - nobody knows everything.

Most soldiers have lots of extremely useful skills. These skills, however, in many cases do not include high intelligence (narrowly defined, ie a high IQ) or scholarly aptitude. In other words, they aren't "book smart". Which was my whole point.

That doesn't make them lesser people, obviously. Many are able to do things that I, and perhaps most other "book smart" people, couldn't even dream of doing. Hell, my cousin is a commando who is serving in Afghanistan right now, and in terms of strength, discipline, endurance, willpower, bravery and many, many other things, he is far superior to me. That doesn't make him intelligent or a good student, though.

As for great students getting scholarships... yes, they do get them. Most of the "best and brightest" students have relatively little trouble getting scholarships, have parents who are able to pay for their education, or are able to find relatively easy ways to pay for their education, or at least ways that do not involve getting shipped off to Iraq to get shot at by mad arabs.

schneemann · 11-03-2006, 11:36 AM

Its time for you to shut the fuck up and post some actual citations from recognized third parties about this "low" intelligence level. Otherwise, stop talking out your ass.

Libertine · 11-03-2006, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by schneemann

Its time for you to shut the fuck up and post some actual citations from recognized third parties about this "low" intelligence level. Otherwise, stop talking out your ass.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_r.../MR818.ch2.pdf
"the probability that an individual enlisted dropped with rising AFQT scores"

The AFQT is not an iq test, but rather the "armed forces qualification test", which, presumably, tests those parts of intelligence and knowledge that are relevant to the armed forces..

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