Too dumb for college? Join the military!

[Hillbilly77]

......Or so this young lady thinks.

Luckily, there was a United States Marine on hand to correct her.





Good job, Marine.

[Comrad]

Ever wonder where dumb blonde jokes come from? Just sayin.

[Autococker07]

God Bless our troops, especially our Marines!!! That is "precious"

[diamonback68]

From what I've seen it seems they don't have to be very smart to get into college and it seems they aren't very smart when they get out.

[11B Lifer]

Originally Posted by Comrad

Ever wonder where dumb blonde jokes come from? Just sayin.

Married the day I was commissioned-our honeymoon was to Fort Benning-When I retired and entered the civilian work force- my wife had already put in 10 years working with 4H and Operation Military Kids-A through and through Army wife she raised kids- worked while I deployed-She died of cancer, her son now a Major with 3 combat tours, her daughter a manager. A better shot than me-safe shooter- A blond-
My son is married to a blond German, who speaks four languages no less-
These classy ladies would tolerate blond jokes-because they would disregard the source.

[BigBill]

I regret not joining the service and miss going to nam.

I can build you anything on this planet it's in my blood. So I built the 155mm howitzers for the US ARMY and cnc machines to manufacture parts for the m1Abrams Chrysler tank.

I still wish I went into the service.

I had a c average in the second year of high school and never took a book home or studied. I quit high school in my second year to go to work. I spent my last 20 years teaching some engineers how to build things.

All I'm saying we're all not dummies we just choose different paths in life. I could of had my PHD in engineering but it was my choice not to go to school. I had around 45 years of hands on building mechanical things. There isn't one thing that you touch everyday that I had something to do with.
I built machines to manufacture disc brakes for every manufacturer, trailer truck brake drums, pistons for all engines, stamping & forming presses, lathes from 24" to 144" chucks etc. I helped design the Disney tower of terror. Remember behind every successful design there is a lab tech showing the engineers what works in the real world. Where would the world be without the street smarts people. The people willing to take a chance on the future to go where no design has ever gone?

The word dummy should never be used. My dad called me a dummy. Trust me that hurts. There is no such thing as a dummy. Even uneducated people aren't dummies. Most are probably smarter than PHD's.

I gave my son all the hands on experience I could give him. Then he went to college and received two degrees one in automated manufacturing(robotics) and his second degree in mechanical engineering. Now with the hands on experience on how things work we now have a good smart educated engineer.

[blackpowder30]

Hillbilly77, Don't ya just love it.

After high school I joined the Air Force. After a year, at 19, I qualified for Aviation Cadet Pilot training. My Cadet classmates were graduates of West Point and a few from Annapolis. My high school classmates, or their parents, had big loans to pay off. Retired at 55 from P&G as a manager. Just too dumb to go to college.

[rwsmith]

I would how many high school grads could handle being a marine??

[DeathGrip]

Bless her heart.

[kozmic]

Classic! I'm sure her father prays every night that she lands herself a sugar daddy.

I deal with highly educated "professionals" on a daily basis that are dumb as donuts (in their chosen profession even)!!! It would make your head spin.

With one kid in college and another going in the fall, I've spend hours upon hours looking at schools and majors. I can tell you that a solid 50% of current college programs out there are a total waste of time and especially money. A bachelor's degree in most fields is useless. And it's gotten worse in just the 2 years between them. It's frightening!

I think the military is a great choice for any kid coming out of high school. I mentioned it to both my boys as an option.

[Comrad]

Originally Posted by 11B Lifer

Married the day I was commissioned-our honeymoon was to Fort Benning-When I retired and entered the civilian work force- my wife had already put in 10 years working with 4H and Operation Military Kids-A through and through Army wife she raised kids- worked while I deployed-She died of cancer, her son now a Major with 3 combat tours, her daughter a manager. A better shot than me-safe shooter- A blond-
My son is married to a blond German, who speaks four languages no less-
These classy ladies would tolerate blond jokes-because they would disregard the source.

I would disregard the source that thinks you have to be stupid to join the armed forces of the United States.

[vonn]

I think military service before college would be good for most young people.A little dose of the real world might help them out. It sure saved me.

[rbrbrb6]

That is funny! I have three kids or their spouses who combined college at the Air Force Academy with military careers. When they graduated from USAF they had degrees from one of the top rated schools in the country and no school debt for a $300,00 plus education. Yes sir, only the dumb join the military.

(Yes, I know that since they are all pilots, they have a 10 year commitment but hey, a guy or gal has to work anyway!)

[BigBill]

What's wrong with this picture?

The state vocational trade schools here raised the grade levels on the kids trying to get in. This sends the kids with lesser grades to high school. What do these low scoring grade kids do when they graduate?
They should of went to trade school. Where the higher scoring kids are college material. We still need carpenters, brick layers, plumbers, welders, sheet metal workers, cooks and bakers right? While the smarter kids become accountants, lawyers, business owners, etc. We're all a tooth on the gear of life. For were all needed in someway to fill a gap.

[BigBill]

A child's motivation comes from home first. It's up to us to teach our children about life. We need to install the drive and motivation in them for there success in life. To teach them to have there goals in life. Once you make up your mind to do something anything is achievable. As long as you stay focused and motivated.

We take our lumps and bumps along the way but we need to look past it to continue for our success. We need to let them know we support them too.

As a lead engineering tech I could tell which summer intern cut the grass at home and who had the silver spoon given to them. I gave the silver spoons the dirtiest jobs that we all did. I gave them a taste of the real world. Some didn't like it. But the ones who cut the lawn at home did everything I asked them to do.

There is no such thing as a lazy kid. We just need to get the worker out from inside him. Money and food can be a motivator when there little. Like you rake the lawn then will go out for lunch. This instills we work, we get paid, we eat. It's the foundation for we work, we get paid, we eat and pay the bills. They slowly we teach them about saving money as they learn.
Life isn't a given. We need to work for everything we want.
I quit school to go to work to get money to eat and support myself. Today I enjoy the spoils of my many decades of hard work. We need to mentor and educate our young.

[dougb1946]

Educated does not mean smart, same as smart does not mean educated.

College is where you go to learn more and more about less and less, until you know everything about nothing.

You start working with your hands, you start to meet really smart people. People needed to keep life going. Not the customers-the ones who call a plumber to fix the toilet. The tradesman, who has to know math to figure a job, has to have business management skill to keep working, who has to deal with govt regulations, taxes, codes, and people before he has to be skilled at his trade. Most Ph.D types wouldn't survive long with out the tradesmen who keep their life functioning. Don't knock the intelligence of tradesmen. A good number of them retire a lot richer than the average college type, and have toilets that flush and light switches that work.

Trade schools, vocational schools, are not for the dumb. You mess up a gas line or electrical connection in a house, people die.

[Cooter Brown]

I like Austin Turner.

[Rangerpat]

After high school, I was too dumb for college, so I joined the Marines....
I graduated from college 8 years later, mostly paid for by the G.I. Bill.

[jdyer225]

That guy is awesome. I find that a lot of people who go to college are really dumb.


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[Comrad]

This mostly recent, last 20 years or so that EVERYBODY is college material and EVERYBODY has to go to college has only cheapened the degree and a BS degree is just that. It's become the new HS diploma.
Now for a back in the day story.
Back in my day, you really had to be college material to get in, with the grades and SAT scores to back it up.
Today, if you are breathing you are in.
And we wonder what happened to this once great economy. They're running the place now.

[mc5aw]

One Marine, and one moron.

[BigBill]

You can know nothing but that college degree means you got the job.

That's what's wrong with this country today.

[Texas Star]

Originally Posted by Autococker07

God Bless our troops, especially our Marines!!! That is "precious"

How'd you read it? I saw the Marine's photo and just one word?!

But the blonde chick can't spel two good, hersefl. Neither can a great many other people on YouTube or FaceBook.

After what my son described about learning to be a Cannon Fire Direction Specialist at Ft. Sill, I doubt that Blondie could pass that course. (However, his actual combat experience was as Infantry, and he has attended a scout sniper school. His IQ scores are in the low genius range. And he has attended college.)

I graduated second man in my large tech school class as an Air Force cop. I suspect that Blondie might have had a few problems with some of our classes. I also scored in the mid 90's on the Dallas Police entrance exam, not counting my 5-point veteran preference score.

And most military officers DO have college degrees! I think it's been required for many years. I was turned down for Officer Candidate School because I lacked a college degree.
(I did attend college after my service, on the GI Bill.)


Now, maybe I could have used Blondie's help with some questions on my USAF career field tests. One question that puzzled me was: In stopping an offender's vehicle, where does the Air Policeman park his own vehicle:

1.) to the front of the other vehicle

2.) to the rear of the other vehicle

3.) behind the other vehicle

4.) to the the side of the other vehicle.

I chose "To the rear" because it sounded better than "behind" it. I got the question right.

Another weird question was, Which way does the cylinder of the .38 revolver turn; left or right? We had both Colts and S&W's, but the Official one was the S&W Combat Masterpiece, commercially known also as the M-15. So, I chose To the left and again got it right. Some of those questions really weren't fair. But they were, after all, devised by (civilian) govt. employees. We were probably lucky that they weren't worse.

[Cyrano]

I went to Field Artillery ROTC summer camp at Ft Sill(1954), and after college graduation went into the Army. At summer camp, after my first day in the fire direction center, they put me out in the firing battery. Math is not my strong point, and if they're firing on data I compute, you don't want to be anywhere in the vicinity; that stuff could come down ANYWHERE!!

[Texas Star]

Originally Posted by Cyrano

I went to Field Artillery ROTC summer camp at Ft Sill(1954), and after college graduation went into the Army. At summer camp, after my first day in the fire direction center, they put me out in the firing battery. Math is not my strong point, and if they're firing on data I compute, you don't want to be anywhere in the vicinity; that stuff could come down ANYWHERE!!

My son said they were drilled in the math and had to have an aptitude for it. They were grimly warned to have the shells hit where they should!


What he learned at Ft. Sill helped him to call in effective artillery fire in Iraq. That and A-10's saved his hide several times. He said the A-10's were awesome to watch.

[RobertJ.]

Originally Posted by diamonback68

From what I've seen it seems they don't have to be very smart to get into college and it seems they aren't very smart when they get out.

With today's liberal learning institutions, I'd say less smart when they get out!

[DeathGrip]

Originally Posted by RobertJ.

With today's liberal learning institutions, I'd say less smart when they get out!

One of my best friend's daughter was a bright kid and went off to school with a full scholarship.

She came home a Zombie.

I don't know what kinda drugs she got into but she'll never be the same.

What a waste of a beautiful young lady.

[jinx]

I worked for years with an old timer{he had gone to college} and he always maintained that a college education was great as long as it didn't interfere with your ability to think.

[REM 3200]

Originally Posted by Cyrano

I went to Field Artillery ROTC summer camp at Ft Sill(1954), and after college graduation went into the Army. At summer camp, after my first day in the fire direction center, they put me out in the firing battery. Math is not my strong point, and if they're firing on data I compute, you don't want to be anywhere in the vicinity; that stuff could come down ANYWHERE!!

Remember "Big T" and 'Little T" ?

[wbraswell]

Some folks got plenty of learnin', but they got no smarts.

[USAF385]

That's what this guy did.

But then I used the GI bill and went to school...

... Where I graduated valedictorian.

[carpriver]

When I finished high school I was not ready for collage. But I knew I needed to get away from home so I joined the Air Force. At 20 years I was responsible for 8 airman and loading cargo on multi million dollar aircraft. After 20 years of service I went to collage and started a second career. Being in the military young men and women learn valuable skills have enormous responsibilities and no college education and are responsible for the freedom of this country.

[cavsix]

Seriously, education is merely a substitute for talent...

and a poor one, at that!

[yaktamer]

The Army helped pay for my last couple of years of college and my first year of law school (at a "top tier" school). I'll see her stoopid quotient, and raise her by my GT score (155) and my LSAT score (top 3%). I am more convinced every day that the dumbest people I know are "educated."

[therevjay]

Well maybe she's got a point. I can remember many times over the years when sitting out in the woods, shivering with rain running down the back of my neck. Or trying to sleep on the turret floor .(which don't work good after age 40) Asking myself self, why the hell weren't you smart enough to stay in school? ('specialy after I saw "Animal house") Hmmm, collage looks like a lot more fun!

[lonejacklarry]

Originally Posted by BigBill

I regret not joining the service and miss going to nam.

Don't worry about it, Bill. You didn't miss much. I did, however, learn how to be on time, how to follow directions, and how to grow up in a hurry. At age 19, I thought I knew it all. After I got drafted, I realized just how much I did not know.

Really, don't worry about it. It was not all that much fun.

[Bugkiller99]

Would someone post the Marine's response?

[THE PILGRIM]

I already did join!
It was either join up or become a lawyer.
I really wanted to be an electrician. Was told you are really lawyer material.
The truth hurts.

[Herknav]

Originally Posted by Bugkiller99

Would someone post the Marine's response?

He said, "*They're."

He (the dumb military guy) was gently correcting her (the smart college girl) for using the wrong homonym (their). So simple, yet so poignant.

[DeathGrip]

Originally Posted by Herknav

He said, "*They're."

He (the dumb military guy) was gently correcting her (the smart college girl) for using the wrong homonym (their). So simple, yet so poignant.

Yeah, That's the crux. Danged near missed it my own self.

Stupid Army guy.

[Bugkiller99]

Originally Posted by Herknav

He said, "*They're."

He (the dumb military guy) was gently correcting her (the smart college girl) for using the wrong homonym (their). So simple, yet so poignant.

OOOOOK.

I used to be a blonde.

Seems I still have some residual effects.

(If you listen carefully, you will here (hear) me shaking my head in self disgust)

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by REM 3200

Remember "Big T" and 'Little T" ?

Don't remember 'Big T' and 'Little T'; probably after my time. I do remember "From the blockhouse on Signal Mountain....."

[Boxhead]

Originally Posted by diamonback68

From what I've seen it seems they don't have to be very smart to get into college and it seems they aren't very smart when they get out.

Apparently you, like so many others on the various forums, have seen little and your views and how you push your children will render the US useless. It's just amusing to read such hypocritical posts. "Seems" is brilliant...

[Boxhead]

Originally Posted by rbrbrb6

That is funny! I have three kids or their spouses who combined college at the Air Force Academy with military careers. When they graduated from USAF they had degrees from one of the top rated schools in the country and no school debt for a $300,00 plus education. Yes sir, only the dumb join the military.

(Yes, I know that since they are all pilots, they have a 10 year commitment but hey, a guy or gal has to work anyway!)

There are many roads to the same end. This I am sure you understand.