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GHETTOBLASTER » 04 Jul 2024, 1:03 pm » wrote: ↑

04 Jul 2024, 1:03 pm

Howdy Vegas...happy 4th..!
I enlisted 50 years ago.at age 18.
This is when I took the all day long battery of tests that measure IQ every which way possible.
IIRC...there are 5 or 6 individual scores listed on my record [DD214]...plus there is a combined score.
I'll take this opportunity to brag a little and say that my scores got me fast tracked into what was  cutting edge technology at the time.
The Army made me their very first  AN/TV2Q Laser Range Finder Tech.
I was already in the top 5% of the FADAC [fire direction control computer repair techs]  as well as at the very top of the heap of TIFF [tactical imagery interpretation facility] techs.
When it was time for me to go before the E5 Promotion Board I had to write my own MOS Test....there wasn't anyone qualified to rate my proficiency level at that point.
I wouldn't be surprised if the test I wrote for myself  became the test that was given to all comers from that point on.   
My security clearance opened doors for me after I got out of the Army that made it possible for me to make a nice living working on US naval ships and military installations all around the world.