where can I download an Enlistment Form to give to college repukes?

[pstokely]

?

[MissMarple]

1. I don't know, but be sure to ask them if they have their draft cards

handy. My son's just came in the mail.

[tandot]

2. I was wondering the same. We have several students with

Bush-Cheney bumper stickers at our University. One of them actually says "Repent...Vote Republican"

I would love to hand them their Enlistment form so they can spill THEIR blood for THEIR President.

[truthspeaker]

8. stick 'em under their windshields

[rocktivity]

3. I guess your first stop should be the web sites of each branch

:headbang:
rocknation

[wildeyed]

4. I actually know someone who enlisted.

Marines. I am quite worried about him. But at least he put his money where his mouth is and that I admire.

[rocktivity]

7. On behalf of myself and DU, I give your friend my best wishes

along with my condolances for having such a crappy commander-in-chief. Maybe he'd know what he was doing if he hadn't gone AWOL.

:headbang:
rocknation

[mark414]

5. go down to your local recruiters office

they'll have PLENTY

[RevCheesehead]

6. I'd try the Post Office, or Library

[jmowreader]

9. You can't download one

It's about an inch thick and printed on five-part No Carbon Required paper, for one thing. (I assume that now it's all computerized.)

You don't know how to fill one out, for another thing.

It's not the first part of the enlistment process, for another.

Following is the complete enlistment process:

1. You go to the recruiter and ask to join the military. The recruiter will make you an appointment to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. You will also fill out an "interest form." (They're going to run a police check on you based on this form.) You'll also answer some preliminary health questions and talk about the army.

2. At the appointed time, you report to the testing center and take the ASVAB.

3. About a week later, your recruiter will call you if your ASVAB score was high enough to get you into the military. You will set up an appointment to do the paperwork and take your physical. (The ASVAB score has eleven components. The most talked about one is General Technical, or GT. Your GT score is kinda the army equivalent to the IQ. There are others, like CO--Combat, FO--Food Service, ME--Mechanical, CL--Clerical...that translate to specific military career fields.)

4. You will go to the appointment and fill out the recruiter's part of the enlistment form. Then you will go to a hotel for the night (at government expense and they even feed you) and report early in the morning for your physical.

5. The physical is very intensive. They will check every possible thing they can in four hours, from your heart to your range of motion. You even get to lift weights to see how much you can. At the end of this, you will receive your physical profile, or PULHES score.

6. The career counselor feeds your ASVAB scores, PULHES score, desired careers, any supplemental tests you have taken (like the Defense Language Aptitude Battery if you're thinking of being a linguist or the Morse code test for three specific Military Intelligence MOS) and how long you want to wait before you are sent to basic training to a computer that spits out various openings. When you choose some of them, they show you a little movie about that MOS. Some of the openings will have notes beside them like "this is an airborne slot, enlistee must volunteer for parachute training" (which means you will spend your entire career at Fort Bragg) or "must be over six feet tall and be able to perform duty without corrective lenses or with contact lenses" (which means the slot is in the Old Guard and you will spend many nights and weekends guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns).

7. Once you have chosen a field, you will fill out a huge amount of extra paperwork. If you need a security clearance you'll fill out that inch-thick stack of paperwork. It goes on and on.

8. Finally, after all is said and done, they take you into a room with a flag in it and you're sworn into the Delayed Entry Program. You sign two more documents and you're done.

9. While you're waiting to go in, you fulfill any requirements like graduating from high school that your contract requires.

10. Comes the big day. Enlistment day. You go to the Military Entrance and Processing Station. First you receive a short physical to be sure you're still fit to serve. Next, you fill out some more paperwork. Finally, you're sworn into the regular army and receive your plane ticket to your final duty station.

11. The next day, you get on an airplane and fly to the airport nearest your basic training site. People are real nice to you then. You get scalped, you get your uniforms, you get all your shots and any additional medical processing you need to do. You start your Military Personnel Records Jacket and your medical and dental records. You sign so many papers in three days you wear out one pen and start in on another. They could slip in a form saying you are a flaming homosexual and would love to do the commanding general right on the post parade field and you probably would not notice.

12. Reception Station turns you over to your company training cadre. These are the people who will convert you from a civilian to a soldier.

13. And then the screaming starts.