IQ of Soldiers

Why is it that generally speaking, those that join the military have either mental problems or low IQ? Is it just an American thing? I support our troops

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Because you have to have low IQ or metal problems to risk dying over some war that a jew started.
>OH VEY! HOW WILL ISRAEL GET ITS OIL?

It's because they are usually economically-disadvantaged individuals. That's also why they have high homeless rates after getting out of the military. They go right back to owning jack shit.

Newsflash: poor people tend to be stupid.

>I support our troops

What a stupid thing to say. The "troops" are a lot of different individuals; not a monolith. It's propaganda to regard them as a large political group that is intractably indivisible. It makes them above blame when you do this.

Fuck off Polish fag

Actually the military chooses smarter people than you think, the marines have the stereotype of being dumb, but I think they can be more picky because they have less people.

Either way, they are better than any of the "smart" cucks who don't join and shit on them.

They need a drill instructor to kick them in their ass and straighten out their shit.

The ASVAB effectively prevents anyone more than one standard deviation below average intelligence from joining the military. The US military was the earliest institution to use IQ tests to screen applicants. The ASVAB still functions as a de facto IQ test, and it's cutoff score for admittance is what keeps everyone above below the low 30's percentile from joining.

You gotta be a dumb fuck to end up a wellfare queen with ptsd

Take the asvab and report back with your score op.

this, basically

most jobs require at least a 50, which means one in two people who have ever taken the asvab aren't smart enough to do them, combined with the stringent physical and medical requirements, very few people are actually qualified to do anything in the military besides sweep the floors

Bulletspongs reporting.
Some of the smartest people I've ever met were in the Marine Corps Infatry with me.
Coincidentially, so were the dumbest.
A lot of Vets just don't care when they get out. System chews em up, and some of 'em can't get their lives together afterwords.

Also, lelz virgin civilians think they can talk shit.

better question:

why are there 150 threads about IQ today?

I'm an army intelligence officer.
>One bachelor degree in arts and wo master degrees one in arts, one in sciences, both from reputable universities. Have done all three on scholarship, while being paid a full salary.
>Author of two books, both history related.
>Triggered, but not dumb.

Some lads just aren't built for your beta lifestyle. Some just want to fuck shit up.

how many confirmed kills tho

That feel when high IQ but just wanted to slot Taliban in Afghanistan.

Now i work in a bank.

Little weak manlets compensating for their lack of testosterone.

You sound like a fucking cunt.

are you imlpying there is some major teenage angst going on up in here?
is this really what your implications are suggesting?

No m9, just 1337.

british, so he probably had to save a few ragheads to get his commission

>thread about IQ
discarded

OP is a faggot but a Navy Seal on Infowars recently suggested that deaths in training are a preventable result of "let's lower standards and let everyone in!" which makes a lot of sense.

>the important posts are ignored.

Not related, but I don't know where to ask.
Are there any jobs in US army for someone with a PhD (say, in electrical engineering)?
Maybe like national labs, but more militarized.

> officer
> pog
Shut the fuck up and go back to humping your commander's dick.

What is this fixation on IQ lately?

I've done one of those IQ tests you see on kikebook, barely even tried. Got a higher IQ than most of my friends and they even commented thinking their personal opinion on me makes the score null and void.

>lol you didn't finish highschool. this is rigged
>partied more than me, you're an idiot so how?
>you cheated, i known you all my life

Only nice one was from my mother, saying she is proud of her boy.

Have spent substantial time working targeting against ISIS, so, likely many kills more than some burg just hoping to get permission to marry so he can claim benefits.

The PC academic freeze on research is beginning to lift, and new hard data is coming out. It's an exciting time.

>ITT: Hurr what is the ASVAB?

not like how you're thinking, probably.

you could get jobs with lockheed working on new missile systems or like los alamos back in the day, but not really. The closest would be working at the naval observatory probably.

IQ is a good meassure of overall brain capacity and function. The reason its legitimacy is still being fought is PC.

This entire board probably has a 95 IQ judging by the fact that most of the posters here write at a 5th grade level. I saw someone in another thread say they had never heard the word 'demagogue' before it was used this election cycle -- to describe Trump, of course.

So why does Sup Forums think it has a leg to stand on when talking about IQ?

>Gets presented a valid argument
>Dismisses it and calls him a faggot

Wow.

that feel when wanting to remove kebab.

but instead i go to uni and will likely never even touch a gun

YFW you realize that a university is a business with no effective oversight or accountability.
By the way, fuck your passive aggressive attitude, especially on Memorial Day.

to be fair, more than half of this board is under 15 years old.

Any evidence besides literally 10+ year old "fighting for muh jooze" memes and unscientific, baseless conjecturing? Any statistics you can show me that accurately analyze the average service member IQ?

I'm a US army ranger, and I have an IQ of about 110-115, Not super high but above average. I know many soldiers who have this level IQ. This field just attracts usually the disenfranchised and economically poor who has never traveled the world. I personally grew up in south africa and moved to England and now an american.

The taliban didnt kill your internet yet?

Men in the military are statistically better educated and in better standing with the law than civilians. It's virtually impossible to get in without a high school diploma and some college credits.

The army bars anyone with an ASVAB score of 25 or lower. The navy and air force puts it at 50.

You're all accepting bullshit that anti-war liberals have been feeding each other with for decades.

My father used to work for the JLA/SLO-army and he had a govt tested 124 IQ. I work as a cop and have a 126 govt tested IQ, so I guess the military isn't only for idiots. He even met a few illiterate 'murican troops in Kosovo.

> intel
> kills
Seriously, stop. My sides can't handle it lol

My IQ is 125. I was in the Marine Corps. I came from a dirt poor family and I refused to go into debt for college. My first two years were paid by an academic scholarship. My last two were paid for by the GI Bill.

All types join the military for all reasons. To say something about the military's population "generally speaking" is, generally speaking, a dumb thing to say.

>Is it just an American thing?
no, its universal.

Go work for general atomic or lockheed

Same.
0311, 2/7. You?

Interesting, I knew it had to do with brain capacity in a way, like noticing patterns and things like speed reading or doing math in your head and such. But never knew it had something related to hive mentality, gang mentality if you call it that and PC nonsense. Shows why people choose to attack me on a personal level because I was capable of doing a simple test better.

rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/MG265/images/webG1471.pdf

found that after some googling

i guess a 50 asvab is about 100 IQ, and a 93-99 percentile is >122 IQ

so an 11B, who needs about a 50 asvab to enlist, would have >100 IQ, but not lower.

How would they? I'm on a giant US airbase. Plus I spend all day coordinating air strikes and killing them. We dropped 3x 500lb bombs on some shithead with a recoilless rifle today to celebrate Memorial day.

1161 Refrigeration Mechanic, 2nd Reg. Spent 2011 FOB hopping in Helmand fixing all the shit battalions broke.

I always felt bad for you grunts. You guys seemed to always get the shit-end of the stick, but I guess that's why you went 03.

> low IQ

enlisted

> average IQ

low level officer

> high IQ

west point / naval academy and reaches usually captain to colonel or above

ah thats right, you guys still shitpost on deployments

Holy shit ssgt Silva is that you?

Do you only work with US aircraft or is there much international support still there?

Is there any logic or pattern to the codes you all use instead of job names, or is it just intended to confuses civilians and foreigners?

Thanks for noticing. Your previous stance is what causes a lot of the hivemind in higher deviations to flip their shit because people tend to just stay ignorant, troll, or a combination of the two.

I got a 97 asvab. in my pog job I work on forward look infrared and image intensified optics and missile launchers. I also every now and then have to pretend to be a grunt but let's be honest not every marine is a rifleman. I'm taking advantage of Tuition assistance to finish my BS before I get out, at which point I'll roll my feder retirement over to a federal law enforcement job thanks to having a BS and 5 years in the militafy, use my untouched GI bill to study auto mechanics, and the VA loan to buy a house. All said and done I'll retire at 45 with a house and then just work on muscle cars until I die. Living the dream. Tell me again how stupid I am?

Yes I think its an American thing desu, here in Britain they tend to be more intelligent especially the officers who are extremely intelligent

The book doesn't talk so much about IQ correlating with collectivism vs. individuality--that's not the point. Jones' research shows how IQ acts as an exponential multiplier in group fitness, and that average group IQ has a greater competitive impact between groups than individual IQ has between individuals.

> officers
> mid to high IQ

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no.

Us soldiers have higher IQs on average than the general population and the majority of soldiers come from middle and upper class families. Blacks in the military also have equal averages for iq because they're vetted in the beginning stages of enlistment.

Haha, nah, but that name sounds familiar. Although I'm sure there are a million Silvas in the Corps.

Similar jobs are grouped numerically, but the numbers themselves don't have any real meaning, I don't believe. They're just the designations decided upon by the powers-that-were years ago.

I tried some sample ASVAB questions, and I'd say it's legit. I can see someone freaking out over the questions. From minor stat questions to car engine stuff. Pretty good 2bh...

US infantryman are smarter than your dumb Sup Forums posting muthafuckin' ass. Get bent OP.

Isn't promotion to captain basically automatic as long as you aren't a persistent fuckup?

the stereotype comes from people with no chance at getting a good stable job ending up in the military

the reality is that some fairly intelligent people have served in the military and if your smart in the past it was easier to start out at a higher rank and avoid the grunt work

now days not so much from what i understand they got rid of the asvab testing allegedly because it was discriminatory

Military is not a necessarily place for idiots, but it's a place where idiots do just fine so it's a good career choice.

>36 year old test
>average IQ is 100 according to Google
>infantry comprises 10-15% of the US Army
>most other jobs require a much higher score on the ASVAB than 50%
There, not only is the lowest ASVAB score required to get the stereotypical "dumb" jobs equivalent to average IQ, the vast majority of the remaining 85-90% require significantly higher ASVAB scores. My ASVAB was 96 and my GT score is 126 out of 130.

Why would anyone with an average or higher IQ go get snackbarred for the sake of Saudi control over the Middle East?

before yes but with drawdowns it's not automatic, at least not at the 4 year mark like it used to be.

Sit I had a recruiter that did that same thing.
Coolest motherfucker I ever met. Got fucked hard out of teaching MOS schools. Had to pick between DI and recruiting, and he told 'em fuck off. He was a stellar marine, so they had no idea what to do lol

Aaaaaaand all my typos make me look like a giant retard lol nevermind

The military is welfare for losers

To train themselves up for the race war, much better training than shitposting on a Catalan wine-tasting forum

colloquysociety.org/col83eqv.htm

here's another one

I was navy though so I have no idea what the GT score translates to

Yes, I'm a targeting officer. My job is to analyze the conditions on the battlefield, anticipate the enemies next move and designate targets for airstrikes that will achieve our desired effects. I work mostly with F-16s and Preds/Reapers. There are probably 30-40 countries with troops here. I work directly with Austrailians, Romanians, Bulgarians and a few Brits but there are many more around the country.

The warrior gene reduces cognitive ability. So if you are just unlucky in your genetics your total sum will be low, and you have the warrior gene, and with that combination you are going to be good cannot fodder.

I have the warrior gene but I came from an intelligent parents so I never ended up joining the army. That is for dumb jingos who think we have a valid reason to be fighting in the middle east, I am not going to get my balls shot off for a state. Neither am I going to push papers for a state.

Don't remember the MOS code, but at least in the Army check out Prime Power Specialist.

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I should add, people with higher IQ's are often really needed for special OPs types of soldiers, however you also have to have perfect physical capacity.

Veterans with honorable discharges are more stable and better workers than average. The dregs that wash out are complete shit tho.

I've never met a smart pollack in my life. Poland is proof that white doesn't equal good genetics.

The military doesn't want retards in the military, but some get through the cracks I'm sure.

Generally speaking, the more "elite" or "mentally challenging" the job you have in the military, the higher the IQ of those who are involved will have. For example you're not likely to find a low IQ idiot flying a fighter jet or working on nuclear reactors on an aircraft carrier, but you may find some low IQ idiots in the military police or in the low ranks of any branch.

I joined for 3 reasons (13A) here

1. pay for college
2. literally no expenses while on base, just stacking money and benefits
3. training for when the US finally collapses

you """happening""" fools are gonna be the first to die when the NEETbux run out and the water is turned off, and combat training+experience will be your only salvation

Smoked my asvab, smoked my mcat too. Bretty good test

This post gave me euphoria

Cos they let me fly their planes

131A here. Fire support is best support.

High IQ correlates with a weak body and a weak will.

>hugest IQ's in the world belong to the biggest autistic fuckups

GOOD GOYIM

>It got mad

You ever get any Brit reapers or just tornados?

Guys, please go take the ASVAB and see how you score. Then go talk shit about soldiers being dumb. Most of you are shitbag civilians who have no understanding of the experience the military can give you. If you want to go far in the military you have be mentally and physically fit. Most MEPS doctors will DQ you in your recruitment phase if you're mentally weak. Meaning no ADHD or self harm scars. So the part about soldiers being mentally challenged is bullshit. That will tend to happen after the war, go ahead, get shot at all day everyday for a few months and tell me see how well you acclimate back into civilian life.
The ASVAB weeds out the dummies, and even if you barely manage to pass you're cooking or sweeping.

because you don't need high qualifications to get in, and many people join up as a last resort.

some officers are extremely smart though, at least over here, plenty of oxbridge grads go to sandhurst.

This is an /r9k/ tier thread, do autists not realise how cringey it is to get angry at Chad?

>70-84 IQ is at 13%
>niggers make up 13% of US population

Wew lad
> mfw my family is 3 generations of military service
> mfw we all became successful physicians afterward

You are truly a cancerous fuck stick. Would love to adjust your attitude properly in person.

I had Tornados in 2009-2010 when there were many more here on Kandahar Airfield. We only have US Preds and Reapers. Mostly what I get is Grey Eagle which fucking sucks. They don't boresight the laser designator so hell fires tend to miss by hundreds of miles. Reapers are the best!

Try them out, m80s.

official-asvab.com/samples_app.htm

Everyone is a pawn to their leaders, even those who claim they have no leader.

This right here. Scored on an unweighted percentile. There are some exceptions, in NNPTC the smartest guy in class was a Puerto Rican who scored thirty-something (The rest of us were 90+) by guessing but destroyed the math and engineering supplemental, because he didn't know English. Fucker learned English in basic and was passably fluent by the time we got to Charleston.