Arny Krueger wrote:

"Pete Wilcox" wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.60.0805272118540.27281@squire
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Arny Krueger wrote:

Simply setting up a test this stupid is like flunking an
IQ test, let alone advertising that you screwed up in
such an obvious way on TV.
The depressing fact is that 50 per cent of the entire
human race is below average intelligence...

ducks and runs...

I became acutely aware of that when I served in the U.S. Army. Many people
in the middle class are blithely unaware of the fact that almost everybody
they encounter has an IQ 100. I sure was.


The type of people you encounter in the US military depends on the
work you are assigned, and whether there is a war going on. The dumbest
soldiers I encountered were in supply, the motor pool and a few infantry
types who thought anyone who wasn't on the battlefield 90% of their TIS
wasn't military.

I was a Broadcast Engineer for AFRTS, worked on the WeatherVision
system at Ft. Rucker, and installed some sound systems. I tested out of
the three year electronics school at Ft. Monmoth and was awarded my MOS
while in basic. I was told that almost no one passed that MOS test,
even five years after completing the course. I received the highest
score on record for my MOS at Ft Knox.

The people I worked with were no different than in any other
technical job. It was the unhappy people doing mostly menial military
jobs that didn't seem very bright, but some of them were just bored to
death. If you got to know them you discovered that some were well read,
and some were taking one or more military correspondence courses, or
going to night classes at a nearby college. Others would have been
losers, no matter what they did, and a few were in the military to keep
from going to prison.

If you served during W.W.II or Korea, they took a lot of people they
wouldn't have, in peace time. They needed people who could shoot, and
who could be quickly trained to take care of themselves on a
battlefield. In a lot of cases, they were strong, but not well educated
farm boys. People who couldn't afford college, and spent most of their
lives doing hot and heavy labor on the family farm. They wouldn't have
scored high on an IQ test, but in no way were they stupid. They just
never got the chance to get much of an education. OTOH, they were the
guys you wanted at your back when the **** hit the fan and the fighting
meant life or death.

You see more deadbeats in peace time, because there is no fighting to
send them to. It's very easy to transfer someone to the infantry, and a
war zone if they cause too many problems. Almost everyone soldier has
infantry as they primary or secondary MOS. Very few have 'NA' for a
secondary MOS on their DD-214.


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