I had an ASVAB score of 88 with a 121 GT but wound up going Army not really knowing the differences in detail. But yeah, with that score you probably should have gone Air Force instead of Army. It's up to you to decide what you want to do, but since you're already shipping out then it's too late.
" While I was at MEPS one of the counselors told me with my scores I should’ve gone AF. There's still not a whole lot of crowdsourced information put into perspective about the differences in the branches, but that's changing now so people will be more informed and have a better idea of which branch theyd rather be in, whether the "work smarter not harder" or "work harder not smarter" (again, dependent on MOS/ASFC and assigned unit) Hopefully your contract isn't too long so that's the sooner you can see if you are able to transfer later when your enlistment is up. Until then, you'll have to make the most out of your Army time, even though life in the Army generally is more shitty. Hopefully there's more to it than that though. And don't quote me, but I've heard that most of those who are able to, are only allowed to be in Air Force's version of special forces.
" Worse case would I be able to transfer later? "įrom my understanding, it's not real difficult to reenlist in Air Force's version of national guard called "Air Guard" or Air Force reserve as prior service when your Army contract is up.īut apparently it is really hard, not 100% impossible, but really difficult for prior service people of other branches to reenlist in Air Force active duty. But again this is dependent on your unit which you have no control over, especially in your first enlistment. There are some people in really good jobs at really good units who have never been to the field in the Army but not that many people) and you won't have to stay weeks at a time without being able to clean your butt. And hopefully you won't have to go to the field often (you will certainly have to go sometime because it is the Army. Hopefully you'll spend more time actually doing your MOS though without so much of the motor pool crap. You'll also get caught up in the drama of the young kids. All they're going to see is that you are just a low E1-E4 so they expect you to bust your ass to keep up lifting the heavy shit in the motor pool with the young kids after keeping up with the heavy runs and ruck marches earlier during PT. Being in that motor pool lifting up those heavy tents (and after you've done PT) will put extra wear on your body too, and the much younger people are not going to want to care about the fact that you are so much older than everybody else.
But it's not too too old.īut even if you are in great shape, being so much older will have your body hurting more from all the hard runs and ruck marching (heavy backpack marching for several miles, often in time limits) we do. It's also more humbling having to be bossed around and possibly even forced to do pushups or other exercises as punishment by someone much much younger than you. "Ģ7 is definitely old in the sense that you are more set in your ways. " Worse case would I be able to transfer later? I just turned 27, which everyone is telling me I’m getting too old to join anyways.
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