Lately I've been intensely focused on getting all of my financial affairs taken care of so that I can have total peace of mind. So as you can imagine I've been a bit anxiety-ridden over the matter. I'll be having a "going away" dinner with some friends on the 23rd and at some point this week or the next I'll post the last major video, I guess, that will be on the ASVAB. As of late a lot of the questions I've been receiving have been about the ASVAB, so why not cover it too.

Oh, I almost forgot. My recruiter had me come in to get my paperwork together that I'll need to take with me to MEPS and the reception. My time to leave is so close now. :)

Few shoutouts for the following:

crazyiowaboy
JeramyG22
SGTolson

All the bes to all three of you!

-David

Here are the videos that took me a month to get done, only because I'v been busy and I had to sort through and organize a lot of the footage and make sense of it.  Let me put it this way...I literally rambled and had to turn my crazy talk into a cohesive whole for a viewer to follow.  lol  So if it still seems like I'm talking a whole lotta nothing...well sorry.  I tried. eh :/

Anyway, here is both parts one and two.

Part 1

Part 2

This is part one of a rather long video on different aspects of going to a Military Entrance Processing Station to enlist. It is a rather long process and so I took my time to just highlight some of the more memorable and important things I experienced over the course of both my visits.

I will be uploading part two of this LONG video sometime soon, as I anticipate being very busy this weekend. So it may end up being next week that I get around to editing and uploading the second half. So watch for it.

Meanwhile, the question to you for this video is...

What was MEPS experience like, if you've gone already?

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Oh while I'm at it I'll share with you that I took my first trip to MEPS yesterday evening to take the ASVAB for the first time.  There was some waiting of roughly 30 minutes and then I went in, registered or what not and took the exam.

It wasn't bad.  I was nervous at first because the last time I took an exam similar to it was the CLAST test in college, and sucked at the math portion.  But alas, I rocked the ASVAB.  I earned a 92 AFQT percentile score and my GT score was 126.  I'm really happy about it,but it's not over yet. 

My recruiter still has to get back to me about scheduling my second trip to get physically qualified.  In all honesty, I am VERY nervous about this because from what I've heard and read, the docs there practically LOOK for stuff to disqualify you.  So this alleged fact plus my laziness in going to get regular check-ups with my own doctor in say, a decade has me nervous.  I don't know of any non-symptomatic conditions I might have that can disqualify me.  I say that because to my knowledge I don't think I have any serious conditions, outside of really needing to be more physically active.  I live a somewhat sedentary lifestyle.  BUT THIS WILL CHANGE, ARMY OR NO ARMY!  I am getting older and I don't want to feel like i'm 37 instead of 27 (my actual age). 

I am praying to God, no really, I am PRAYING that I qualify and pass this physical next week!  My cousin Ashley at West Point is really proud that I've come this far.   Love her!