Military Essay -- Department of Defense, ASVAB

According to the DOD, (2011) the department of defense doesn’t allow any third party anything in association with the military or any of it’s governmental functioning counter parts ala... national guards, reserves, commission corpse, naval reserves , marines reserves etc†¦ DODD rule 8750 insures that all military servicemen must be certified in their prospective fields and be proficient in their MOS field after boot camp and AIT. (DoDD, 2011) To become a soldier one must first visit a local recruiting office; there a person may engage in talks with a recruiter, the recruiter’s main job is to help assess the civilian enquires about their military desires, the recruiter must talk to a recruit and his legal guardian or parents as no one under 18 can’t make decisions for themselves without their parents/ guardians permission. The recruiter then will start the process, one of the recruiter’s first assignments is to get the civilian ASVAB scores from their local high school or if the recruit is from out of town they can be retested on the ASVAB. The ASVAB stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test and it accesses a recruit’s probability for enlistment, military job placement and career exploration after the military. ASVAB scoring is based on (IRT) Item Response Theory, this model is used because it measures the examinee’s ability to be placed on the same scale as everyone else and each test is tailored to a specific ability level needed when the examinee picks their military job. The IRT model uses the (3pl) in which measures a examinee’s level of ability to respond to a individual item or characteristics, especially those characteristics that represents difficulty, discrimination (How an item discriminates among ex... ...any part of the (PRT) they’ll be giving more intense exercises to perform this is to increase their stamina, and get them ready for the next phase of Army training as each phase last 3 weeks and get’s more intense until the last phase. Boot Camp Continued, The 2nd phase of boot camps consists of recruits performing tactical foot marches, learning basic rifleman marksmanship, field training exercises and engaging in skills and situational training exercises as well as the confidence obstacle course. Recruits at this point are being drilled daily on the rank & insignia badges as well as their chain of command from their drill instructor to the President of the United States; and they still have to pass (PRT) for phase II and with only 3 weeks left any recruit that fails has to devote their own free time into running and training to pass the final PRT in phase 3.