I served 4 years as an Air Force recruiter in Sacramento CA with responsibility for about 15 high school areas. I interviewed kids with their high school diploma in hand who could not spell their middle name or didn't even KNOW their middle name, only the initial. I ran across kids who could not spell the name of the school that gave them the diploma. A couple did not know their Mom's real name. Social Security number was a mystery to many. Many flunked the ASVAB with a score of less than 10. Kids from certain high schools would ace the ASVAB while others would be almost certain to fail miserably.

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