Army aptitude tests?

[old crow]

I enlisted in the USAF in 6/63, tired, broke and needing the G.I. Bill to continue my education. I had two years of college Pre-Veterinary education and two solid years of Veterinary work behind me (large Veterinary clinic, 5 docs, large and small animal practice, I was the live-in student in the clinic's quarters), six days/week, 52 weeks/year. Took the AFQT, scored high in all but the 'language' tests. The USAF, in its great wisdom assigned me to ECM training after 'boot'. I spent 49 weeks at Keesler AFB and just about had "Ohm's Law" down pat when I finished the 49 weeks and got passed along the 'pipeline'. I was so ignorant of 'electronics' that I spent the next nine years as a 'flightline goon'; remove and replace kind of job but I was also assigned to in-flght duty on B-52s, carrying a pocket screw-driver to adjust 'displays'. Long, long story but after ten years of this I befriended an 'assignments' specialist while in Germany who heard my story over a few beers in the NCO club and found me a retraining slot in Flight Medicine. I literally aced the courses and two years later was selected for the USAF PA program; graduated in the top third of my class, was commissioned, served my 10 years of Indefinite Reserve and retired. 33 years later I've retired from clinical practice; still work 8 hours weekly in a local long-term skilled nursing home in geriatrics and looking back, I wish I knew how to get in touch with that 'assignments' Sgt to say "THANK YOU, SIR!". Was an interesting 'ride' and I can only wonder where I'd be if the actual AFQT results had been used.

[bristolbayman]

Cubby308, you are the first person I have ever heard that knows what I've been trying to find out after all these years. I remember after all those tests I was recruited for both OCS and special forces. This was Jan 69 and at 18 was still hoping to stay out of the nam. So I declined both offers and went on to my guaranteed avionics school hoping that might keep me out of the war. Well, learned to fix helicopter radios at fort Gordon and unfortunately for me ended up in the nam anyway.

On that second batch of tests you referred to, my ALAT was 13, still can't speak or spell foreighn. My OCT-3 was 117 and have since learned the cutoff point was lowered from 120 to 115 during the war. So that was probably why the OCS guy was talking to me. It's the SFSBT score of 407 that I have never been able to figure out. Was it what got the special forces guy on my case or what. It's the last score on the bottom of the second group of tests. Thanks in advance for any info on this matter.

[TDH]

If your scores were low enough they made you a mine sweeper ( place each index finger in your ears now stomp the ground in front of you with force.) or they made you a 2nd Looie or was that loonie. I forget ;-)