I was wondering how much your score actually affects your choice in career/where you are stationed.

I scored a 95.

My good friends uncle became a nuclear engineer and makes more than $100,000 a year.
He also said the job is boring as fuck.
Anyone in Nuke?
Any opinions?

I got a 93 on my ASVAB and Im going Nuke, too. I go to boot on August 18.

Those are good scores. The only thing is that the overall score doesn't necessarily do much for you. Look at your line scores, things like the GT score. Look at the job and it's requirements for line scores.

Your job doesnt affect your pay. You can be a one-striper Airman doing nuclear missile maintenance, and a one-striper Airman doing finance, and you'll be getting paid exactly the same. You get paid according to your rank, and that's not changing any time soon.

I scored an 88, GT is 125. If the national average is like 45, how is everyone getting these high scores?

If you've managed to figure out how to use an internet browser, I'd hazard you're above the national average.

I scored an 88, GT is 125. If the national average is like 45, how is everyone getting these high scores?

A lot of people lie like fucks, me and my friend got a 91 and a 96, but we're also in all ap classes, do sports, parts of clubs, and do well in all of these things, so that's expected. When I took mine though, and everyone was exchanging scores afterward, people were lying like crazy, almost all of them said they made 80's and 90's, yet they also left their score sheets out for everyone to read and literally no one was telling the truth. I guess it's just easier to say you got an 80 or 90, because no one wants to admit to having a 45. I found the easiest way to find out they didn't make a high score is if that person smells like shit and is missing teeth, that's usually a good sign that persons a fucking retard.

i scored a 78 after drinking thee entire night before good ol STL all you gotta do is miss the first question then take a while on the second it automatically gives you the EZ version it helps

I go to boot on August 18.

How do you have such a long wait to ship? When I signed I had the option to go two days later or 3 weeks.
I got a 94 and the list of jobs open to me had like 150 entries. You can do whatever you want.

I scored an 88, GT is 125. If the national average is like 45, how is everyone getting these high scores?

I took the practice ASVAB last week and got a perfect score. I found it terribly easy. The hardest question was,

"Which of these numbers is closest to the square root of 85?
A. 9.1
B. 9.2
C. 9.3
D. 9.4"


The recruiter was like, "I've never seen a perfect score before, except when I got bored and cheated on the test. I've seen 97s and 98s, but never a 99..."


I'm taking the real thing in January I think. I have to wait a little while for the pot to clear through my system before getting my physical and shit, and can't really do much until I turn 18 in January.

Also, you have to remember that the ASVAB average is derived from everyone every year who takes the test, not just those who enlist in the military. So the college bound do very well on it, but don't end up enlisting. Out of my friends, I had the lowest score, and that was a 92. However, they're all in college and I'm a Marine. Among the Marines I have been with I almost always have a higher ASVAB score.

Your job doesnt affect your pay. You can be a one-striper Airman doing nuclear missile maintenance, and a one-striper Airman doing finance, and you'll be getting paid exactly the same. You get paid according to your rank, and that's not changing any time soon.

Yes and no. Your rank affects you base pay. But a one stripe yoemen on a base isn't getting the sea pay and other assorted bonuses that a one stripe on an aircraft carrier is getting, so in a roundabout way, your job does affect your pay, just not as much as your rank.


Nuke is a perfectly respectable job, just be prepared to be made fun of mercilessly in boot. I don't know why, but nukes take the brunt of the abuse. Or you could go CT. That was a ridiculously popular rate in my division, and apparently, they get all kinds of groovy extras when it comes to money.

i got a 95 -- not so sure about the line scores -- and after going to meps for my physical last week my recruiter told me that i qualify for every job. im going marine corps infantry.

another recruiter at the office got a 99 on his.

i got a 95 -- not so sure about the line scores -- and after going to meps for my physical last week my recruiter told me that i qualify for every job. im going marine corps infantry.

another recruiter at the office got a 99 on his.

How do you have such a long wait to ship? When I signed I had the option to go two days later or 3 weeks.

Im in the Delayed Entry Program because Im still in high school.

I got a 99. I'm starting the Bachelor completion program next term, and will probably be going Nuke. The Navy will pay me $3200 a month to go to school if I have a physics-like major.