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Im pretty sure..they go to meps from the hotel to get a physical..
but im air force and i went 2 weeks after i took my asvab..
My son went down to take the ASVAB and never came back. The Navy recruiter has him in a hotel downtown. He scored a 96, which apparently is pretty good, but you'd think they'd let him come home. I think they're afraid I'll talk him out of it, which I won't. I feel like he's been kidnapped. haha...
Im pretty sure..they go to meps from the hotel to get a physical..
but im air force and i went 2 weeks after i took my asvab..
Call them and then, in your best Mel Gibson voice, scream, "give me back my son!"
Maybe the dingo ate your baby?
So they go in a group ? I thought it was strange they put 'em in a hotel rather than just tell 'em to show up at a certain time/place.
When the recruiter picked him up today to take his ASVAB I told him jokingly, 'Don't bring him back, just take him straight to boot camp from here.'
I thought, 'Man, he really took that serious.'
After he took the test the recruiter told him he could take any job he wanted. He wanted the SWCC program but the recruiter talked him into the nuclear engineering program. He's really good at math. Took high school level math in junior high. His mom is an actuary so she drilled math into him. So I guess that paid off. I don't think he'd have qualified for the physical test for SWCC anyway, though he says he could do it.
Only thing about the nuclear program is it's 6 years instead of 4, but the GI bill benefits are 145k, rather than the usual 90k. So that's good for him AND me. He was going to go to UTSA with out of state tuition and I was going to have to s that out. So I'm happy.
sausage fest test
Same thing happened to me when I joined the Air Force. I had already signed the contracts and everything before I took the official ASVAB. After I took the official test and passed they put me in a hotel for the night and next morning I was on the bus to basic.
If he had already signed the papers, then that is probably what happened.
I say call them now and tell them that your name is Major Colonel Sergeant General George Lincoln and that Recruit (whateverthe yourkidsnameis) is needed for a personal mission. They will understand because it's the navy and they probably hear that kind of stuff all the time.
Here let me help you ... it's better if they hear it!
tell your son thanks
"Navy recruiter has him in a hotel downtown"
hmmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
recruiters are the biggest liars out there... "you can have any job you'd like... here's a mop, go clean the deck!"
they lied to my friend who joined the marines with a high score on his asvab and they lied to my brother who joined the navy(he probably sucked on the test) and i know a retired recruiter who put it simply like, "we tell you what you wanna hear".
Seinfeld owns all...
Apparently, for the job he is qualifed for, they are not taking white males so it's going to be up to five months before a position is open. He was talking to a guy at the MEPS and he told him he could go to any other branch and get any job he wanted with his scores, but he wants the nuclear program in the Navy.
In the meantime, I'll be calling my Senator to complain.
That sucks. I hope your son gets it in the next five months though, because the nuclear engineering program sounded pretty sweet when I was considering it. When I was in school I remember talking to someone in the Navy and the offer was something like $15,000 a year while in school, getting paid $45,000 the first year while going in a graduate program run by the Navy, and by the 5th year something like $80,000. I think it was a 5 year commitment back then though.
Anyways, good luck man. Nuclear engineering seems like such a fascinating field, and running a carrier or a sub sounds like so much fun.
My son went down to take the ASVAB and never came back. The Navy recruiter has him in a hotel downtown.
Being an hispanic male or half black half euro (depending on which thread you read) that pisses me off. I have always believed that the best man for the job should be the one getting it. I hate to think that I might have gotten a position because of the color of my skin and not because I was better than the other guy (even though I would still take it). That sucks dude.
I have a buddy who works at Bjorns, whose brother did the nuclear engineering thing. He was out on an atoll in the pacific dismantling nuclear weapons for 11 months a year. He had nothing to spend all his money on, so whenever he would come back he would work his brother's discount to put together a sound system. I will just put it this way: He spent 25k on his sound system AFTER the discount. This only includes the sound system, not TV, not Blu Ray (didn't exist then), just sound. it was crazy good. So it seems that all the jobs you get with this allow you to save a TON of money because you make a lot and can't spend any of it where ever you are stationed.
Don't this too seriously, lol.
lil mo is not thankful for your son's future service. Sorry.
I had the samething happen to me. I scored 95's on my ASVAB and never made it back. Recruiter offered me a signing bonus plus my choice of career and I was out.
Your son does know the Navy wears their names on the back of the jean pants right!!!
You might suggest to him to check out the Air Force while he waits. It can't hurt and he might find a job he likes there too. The quality of life is generally better in the Air Force, they just don't get all the cool uniforms or 6 months plus on a ship.
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