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It's ok, everyone wants to be Infantry, until it's time to do Infantry thingsYet Lots of Infantry get degrees, leave and work for technical jobs.
So some are unintelligent?We thankfully don't set policy based on the anecdotes of "lots of" people having higher aptitudes than the bare minimum.
We saw it happen with the ACISS debacle, where we had folks scrape in on the bottom level for one sub occ, then get put over into a more technical one. Lots of calls to CMP to get folks COTed or VOTed out of the trade because "while CFAT standard was met, PRB Numero Tres recommends COT."
I get that not everyone heading into the Combat Arms is unintelligent, but I also know that the folks we are targeting to fill technical roles don't necessarily have "shoot a bad guy in the face" as their motivation to join the CAF. We are the beggars in this situation, we need to lean into that aspect of recruiting.
The CAF can increase recruiting with two things: