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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (26 children)

USMC minimum score: 31 or higher (out of 100%)

Sample questions: https://www.officialasvab.com/applicants/sample-questions/

He has to be fully illiterate. 31 is such a low bar that it's reading a paragraph and doing addition/subtraction/division/multiplication.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (17 children)

Do they really use multiple choice for math questions in US education? That makes it very easy to guess the answers for some questions without fully performing any calculations.

Also I've answered some of the questions on that website and I haven't got a single one wrong yet. Is this really all you need, along with basic fitness, to become a marine? Because if so, I understand where all the stereotypes about them being crayon eaters come from.

Okay I got my first question wrong. I answered with backsaw for the question: "Which handsaw should be used to make a rough cut with the grain in a thick board?" Correct answer was ripsaw. My hopes and dreams of being a US Marine are over😭.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

You need to be able to run a 3 mile in a short period of time, i dont think most of us can do that here.

I think you need to spend more time around american kids who arent the rich, white ones on reddit or here. They've been failed by our country and society so bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that to get through MEPS or what the minimum PT standards are to stay in the Marines?

For the Army, admittedly 20+ years ago, so long as you passed the criminal background check, the drug test, and the medical check by the time you got through the MEPS station it was assumed that Basic Training would be where you'd do the physical training to meet the minimum fitness standards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

PT standards for Marines minimum. But even bare minimum is hard in US the obesity rate leader, not factoring in height and weight.

The medical stuff has gotten way more complicated and they can track anything that was reported to a hospital.

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