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According to this article, project 2025 doesn't do that. It proposes requiring students to take the military ASVAB test. Which honestly isn't the worst idea. In my high school they recommended people who didn't know what they wanted to do for a career to take it even if they weren't going into the military.
Believable, and on point for these fascists, but you got a source? OP does.
Private schools don't have to follow the same requirements as public schools already. The person above you is just inferring that since they're already separate in the current system, the new ASVAB requirement would also be separate. But until it becomes an actual law, it isn't super useful arguing hypotheticals in this context.
I think it's a very useful point to flag. These details are important.
Doesn't that just make it easier for the US to conscript people?
Just fail it so that you would need a waiver to join
So you can be shuffled in with the grunts rather than the officers?
The military loves putting dumb-dumbs through basic and stacking them on the front lines to catch stray bullets.
I mean, you can also fail out at basic too IIRC.
Also, you need a college degree to be a commissioned officer.
You only fall out of basic if you're an invalid. The military is very good at beating compliance into anyone else.
You can absolutely get chaptered out for failing basic multiple times.
Given the degree of physical, psychological, and - not uncommonly - sexual abuse you experience along the way, I wouldn't recommend the experience.
You sound like you are objecting for the sake of objection. You have been provably wrong in certain cases.
I wouldn’t recommend the military either, but there are facts and then there are falsehoods. You have been treading on the side of falsehoods and that is mighty dangerous because abuse of all kinds does occur in the armed forces. However, the amount of incorrect information you have been touting may lead people to believe that the abuse suffered are falsehoods as well.
If you've been through basic or seen people who have, you'd recognize how difficult it is to fail out and how easy it is to simply be abused into a sufficient state of compliance.
Or if ever American says they’re gay, they’d never join the military because DEI and such.
Or just be black, brown, Asian, trans, a celebrity or rich. America doesn’t want any of that in the military either
They don't want poc or women to be career.
They want women pregnant, so they are "safe" in that sense. They want white officers commanding brown conscripts to go do the dying.
Just don't ace it or every branch of the military will start harassing you at home trying to get you to join.
It's a 3 hour aptitude test. Are you good at math? Are you good at electronics? Etc. I would imagine it's a minor speed bump to joining the military.
No physical component?
No. The hardest math is some insanely light algebra too. X = 5y kind of stuff.
It still opens the door to enlistment and being harassed to join the military, conning poor kids into making a mistake.
Huh... They made all of us take it. But I went to school in a rural red state in the mid 90s.
You went to the shit schools, I went to school in the south, they gerrymandered them so the kids of poor parents took them while the rich kids didn't (and got actual schooling).
Yep 100% went to a shit school. I'd not be surprised if the asvab paid the school for each person that took it