The ASVAB or Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery is considered the military version of an entrance exam.
Therefore many potential recruits think that once they take the ASVAB, they are automatically obligated to join the military.
However, this is not the case and in this article, I will explain exactly how that's possible.
I will also explain under which circumstances you are obligated to join the service.
The military is all about paperwork and signatures.
There was a motto that we used on deployment.
If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen.
Thit means that anything that we did on watch or on duty, we had to record in a record book.
If we didn't write it down, saying that we did this task meant nothing.
If there is no recorded proof, it simply didn't happen The same applies to potential military recruits when you are applying to join the military.
You may fill out paperwork, complete a background check, take the ASVAB even determine application qualifications.
However, unless you sign on the dotted line promising that you will join and ship out on a specific day, then you are not tied to the military.
When you go to MEPS or when you go to your ASVAB testing site, you will go through rigorous series of examinations including physical, audio, health, and other military determining qualifications in addition to taking your ASVAB exam.
Given that you go through all these procedures, the military will want you to join.
Especially after they have provided you with all these tests.
Once you have cleared all the different stations and have achieved a qualifying ASVAB score, they will tell you which military jobs are open for you within your desired branch of choice.
After you and the recruiter come to an agreement in terms of an ideal job, rate or MOS, you will be given a stack of paperwork to complete.
Once you sign the paperwork, and once you raise your hand to be sworn in, then and only then have you given your official word and are now tied to the military and must join.
That being said, you can still go through this entire procedure and then decide that this is not for you.
Perhaps they don't have the job opening you desire, or you get cold feet.
Unless you put pen to paper you are under no obligation to join.
Therefore many potential recruits think that once they take the ASVAB, they are automatically obligated to join the military.
However, this is not the case and in this article, I will explain exactly how that's possible.
I will also explain under which circumstances you are obligated to join the service.
The military is all about paperwork and signatures.
There was a motto that we used on deployment.
If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen.
Thit means that anything that we did on watch or on duty, we had to record in a record book.
If we didn't write it down, saying that we did this task meant nothing.
If there is no recorded proof, it simply didn't happen The same applies to potential military recruits when you are applying to join the military.
You may fill out paperwork, complete a background check, take the ASVAB even determine application qualifications.
However, unless you sign on the dotted line promising that you will join and ship out on a specific day, then you are not tied to the military.
When you go to MEPS or when you go to your ASVAB testing site, you will go through rigorous series of examinations including physical, audio, health, and other military determining qualifications in addition to taking your ASVAB exam.
Given that you go through all these procedures, the military will want you to join.
Especially after they have provided you with all these tests.
Once you have cleared all the different stations and have achieved a qualifying ASVAB score, they will tell you which military jobs are open for you within your desired branch of choice.
After you and the recruiter come to an agreement in terms of an ideal job, rate or MOS, you will be given a stack of paperwork to complete.
Once you sign the paperwork, and once you raise your hand to be sworn in, then and only then have you given your official word and are now tied to the military and must join.
That being said, you can still go through this entire procedure and then decide that this is not for you.
Perhaps they don't have the job opening you desire, or you get cold feet.
Unless you put pen to paper you are under no obligation to join.
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