The other day my oldest daughter (20 years old) came up to me and said "dad I got something to tell you. I am thinking wrecked car, boy trouble, moving out something along that line of thought. She tells me she is thinking about enlisting in the Navy. It really caught me off guard. I ask her when she started thinking about this. She told me she had been thinking about it since her Jr. year in high school. She has been going to Jr. college and almost has her associates degree. She told me she thought it would help her mature a little bit, she would get the rest of her college paid for, get to travel, and she likes the ocean. At first I was kind of dumbstruck. Did not want my girl moving off so far away. About a month goes by and she says I going to take the ASFAB test and talk to the recruiters. Now it has set in she is really serious about this. We talk about it a lot more serious and I tell her I am very proud of her decision.
Well she sets everything up with the recruiter and she leaves the next day to go take her test, physical, and talk to the job counselor. She goes and takes the test and scores an 80 which is real good considering the average score on the test is 40-45. Her score qualifies her to do almost any job in the Navy. After she finds out her score she goes and takes the physical and passes that with flying colors. By this time she has been in Dallas for 2 days and still does not get to see the career counselor. Before she left she explained to the recruiter she had to be somewhere Thursday afternoon, he assured her she would be back in plenty time.
This is the part that ticks me off, she has already been there for two days and has not seen the counselor and they start telling her if she leaves she will loose any chance she has and she will have to start all over again. So she tells them if she can get out of there by noon Thursday she could make her other appointment. So they tell her they promise she will be the first to see the counselor Thursday morning. She gets up at 4:30 Thursday morning and eats breakfast and goes to see the counselor. When she gets in there she tells the counselor she wants to be a Operations Specialist (which she qualifies for). The counselor tells her they have an opening for a dental tech. and most women would love to have that job. She tells them she does not want to be a tech. and she wants to be an ops specialist. (sonar, radar, and electronics on the ship). They continue to pressure her into trying to take another job and she continues to hold out even with 3 recruiters and 2 counselors hounding her. They wont let her leave the room and continue this until noon. She finally tells them if they won't give her the job she qualifies for then they can stick it, and she would like to be taken back to her car. They won't take her back to her car so she walks out and calls us and we drive to Dallas and pick her up and take her back to her car. My wife's cousin has been in the Navy for 20 years and is a LT. Commander which is very high up in rank. He is extremely excited about her choosing the Navy and wants to now how everything went. He calls and talks to my daughter and lets just say I would not want to be the counselors or the recruiters come Tuesday morning. ( sometimes its good to have an ace in the hole)
Sorry for such a long read but I am very proud of my daughter for sticking to her guns and not folding under so much pressure and her choice of wanting to help protect our freedom as Americans.
Well she sets everything up with the recruiter and she leaves the next day to go take her test, physical, and talk to the job counselor. She goes and takes the test and scores an 80 which is real good considering the average score on the test is 40-45. Her score qualifies her to do almost any job in the Navy. After she finds out her score she goes and takes the physical and passes that with flying colors. By this time she has been in Dallas for 2 days and still does not get to see the career counselor. Before she left she explained to the recruiter she had to be somewhere Thursday afternoon, he assured her she would be back in plenty time.
This is the part that ticks me off, she has already been there for two days and has not seen the counselor and they start telling her if she leaves she will loose any chance she has and she will have to start all over again. So she tells them if she can get out of there by noon Thursday she could make her other appointment. So they tell her they promise she will be the first to see the counselor Thursday morning. She gets up at 4:30 Thursday morning and eats breakfast and goes to see the counselor. When she gets in there she tells the counselor she wants to be a Operations Specialist (which she qualifies for). The counselor tells her they have an opening for a dental tech. and most women would love to have that job. She tells them she does not want to be a tech. and she wants to be an ops specialist. (sonar, radar, and electronics on the ship). They continue to pressure her into trying to take another job and she continues to hold out even with 3 recruiters and 2 counselors hounding her. They wont let her leave the room and continue this until noon. She finally tells them if they won't give her the job she qualifies for then they can stick it, and she would like to be taken back to her car. They won't take her back to her car so she walks out and calls us and we drive to Dallas and pick her up and take her back to her car. My wife's cousin has been in the Navy for 20 years and is a LT. Commander which is very high up in rank. He is extremely excited about her choosing the Navy and wants to now how everything went. He calls and talks to my daughter and lets just say I would not want to be the counselors or the recruiters come Tuesday morning. ( sometimes its good to have an ace in the hole)
Sorry for such a long read but I am very proud of my daughter for sticking to her guns and not folding under so much pressure and her choice of wanting to help protect our freedom as Americans.
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