Snopes: [True] Project 2025 Wants All Public High School Students To Take Military Entrance Exam?

Fun Fact: This section of Project 2025 was written by Christopher Miller.

You might know him from such things as “On January 5, Miller issued orders which prohibited deploying D.C. Guard members with weapons, helmets, body armor or riot control agents without his personal approval.”

I’m not opposed to a mandatory community service year upon turning 18, where a person who is physically and mentally able is required to spend 12 months PAID to work in a government organized community service program. This can help new adults gain new skills, create contacts, get references, and get off on the right foot financially.

But “military” is definitely not the right direction. IMO

Cool, but we also take Finland's law about tuition: it's illegal to charge it.

No private schools. It's done wonders for their society because the rich people invest in the same schools as everyone else.

Endless War is a Hallmark of Fascism. This will require a large number of cannon fodder.

Rich kids and those with bone spurs will be exempt.

My school had us all take it at 16.

If you refused you had to go sit in the cafeteria by yourself and weren't allowed to even study. Just sit there with your eyes open not doing anything for like 4 hours.

My high school made everyone take the asvab. I must have scored well on it because the military was up my ass. I remember uniformed soldiers regularly ringing the bell and asking for me. I had zero interest in joining the armed services, but they kept coming. My mom started answering the door for me; yelling at them to get lost and leave us alone.

We could start the first war fought by dropping rich people from drones!

No wait... dropping rich people on fire from drones. That's better. We might run out of rich people, but they will run out of rich people first!

For those not familiar with it, it is an aptitude test that covers a wide range of topics. The results can be informational. Beware if you score well enough to fill a job in the army that is really understaffed, you will never get the recruiters to stop calling.

Tell me it’s a draft without telling me it’s a draft

Time for someone in the know to start spreading some "How to fail the ASVAB miserably!" memes.

I have no idea what the test involves, but if that had been me, me and my friends would have tanked it and made the results useless.

You'd be surprised how many private schools receive federal funding.

But honestly this isn't the worst thing. As long as it's interacted with in an honest manner the ASVAB is an excellent career test. So an honest interaction with it would be counselors telling students their results and showing them career paths that line up with those results. To be clear, we're talking about civilian career paths.

The problem is I don't hear about it being done that way anymore. (My highschool did exactly the above) I only hear about it being used by recruiters, for recruiting.

The wars of the future will be between big ass companies using drones, espionage, hacking, assassins, etc. it won't involve us poor commoners anyway.

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Wouldn't private schools apply too with the voucher system? Or is that only meant to stay on the state level?

join the military to be a Citizen!

Why do you think they hate birth control and abortion so much? They want cannon fodder, and desperate people who will work for starvation wages.

Can we do something about making the Selective Service more equitable? Why is it that Men are the only ones that have to register for the draft? We have plenty of women serving in the armed forces, make everyone have to register.

I took the ASVAB way back in the 90's. IIRC it was mandatory then too.

lol you know they're still accepting the ones who got "draw a circle around the triangle" wrong

Good fucking luck. Trying to get schools to give any standardized test is like pulling teeth, entire states have given up on the idea.

When I was in school they made us take the ASVAB. So I didn't do it and then nothing happened to me. It was mandatory but nobody gave a shit.

This guys name is colon? That's going to take a pounding in boot camp.

We did at my school.

If we find this becomes forced, just tell your kid they’re allowed to mark all a’s and turn it in. Done.

It literally has no bearing on their school grades.

WTF is this about? I showed up stoned from skipping class in 10th grade and took the ASVAB back in the day. I placed in the top 1% of the nation not remembering a single question. I was told I qualified for any position in the military. I got DQ'd so it was for nothing. Why is this an issue now?

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This has been in place for decades, I had to take it in the 80s in a public school. It's called ASVAB like the article mentions. This is nothing new.