Are you smarter than a US Marine? Take the recruitment quiz

Note this is not Marine specific; it is the military test common to all branches (but it makes for a nice headline) You can scroll through the 24 questions (the whole test is 105) at the link below.  Every high school graduate should be able to get all of these 24 correct (and I would hope the 105 as well).

If this is what is required to be an effective Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, or Marine in the US military which I would interpret to mean that passing this test is required to be able to learn and execute US military tactics, techniques and procedures – e.g., doctrine.   This would seem to have implications when we try to create a foreign military force in our image  (which seems to be our default technique)– to able to effective employ US weapons and tactics and doctrine probably requires a certain level of literacy.  The question should be asked – do we try to raise the foreign level of literacy to meet the US standard in order to make them able to employ US doctrine or do we teach them tactics and doctrine and provide them with equipment  they are capable of employing and maintaining based on their level of education and unique history, customs, culture, and traditions?  This has obvious implications in places like Afghanistan and wherever the Army and its Regionally Aligned Brigades might be conducting Security Force Assistance.

V/R

Dave

Are you smarter than a US Marine? Take the recruitment quiz

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/1109/Are-you-smarter-than-a-US-Marine-Take-the-recruitment-quiz/Word-Knowledge-1?google_editors_picks=true

The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is made up of 10 tests, including 225 questions, but only four of the tests are used to see if you qualify to join the US military. Each branch  – the Marines, Navy, Air Force, etc – has a different qualifying score. The other tests – including science, electronics, mechanical knowledge – help the military determine what jobs you may be qualified to do.

Since only four areas  -–  Word Knowledge (WK), Paragraph Comprehension (PC), Arithmetic Reasoning (AR), and Math Knowledge (MK) – are used to compute your Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) score, our 24 sample questions cover just those areas. The actual military recruitment test has 105 questions in these four subjects.

Are you smart enough to be a US Marine or join the Air Force? Take our quiz.

- David Clark Scott, Staff writer

Question 1 of 24

1. WK: "Antagonize" most nearly means ...

Embarrass
Struggle
Provoke
Worship

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(Continued at the link below)

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/1109/Are-you-smarter-than-a-US-Marine-Take-the-recruitment-quiz/Word-Knowledge-1?google_editors_picks=true