SGM B wrote:
Hey Big Mike,
Actually it's called the ASVAB, Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and is used to determine a prospective enlisted's potential to be trained in any specific job skill, or Military Ocupational Specialty (MOS) in the Army. There is no real coralation to an IQ test.
Hope this helps,
SGM B out.
I took the test the military had in place in 1964 (before ASVAB) and was placed in the exact type of job I was qualified to do - a job I spent doing my entire 20-year military career and for 30 years after retirement from the Navy - which was working with computers. (The first computer I worked with was the size of a refrigerator. My iPhone has more power then that computer had. Amazing!) Anyway, my point is that the military usually does a good job placing people in the skill set that best fits them - however, strictly on the needs of the service. Which means, for example, even if the you want to be a radio operator and you qualify for it, the service might end up putting in the place you are needed the most - which could be the infantry, working on the flight deck of an air craft carrier, scrapping the ships side, or a whole host of other jobs. It is ALWAYS subject to the needs of the service, which doesn't always make people happy.