Score of 96 on ASVAB - is that good?

Yeah it’s a good score. But unless he’s in ROTC in college or the military academy, there’s no way in hell hes gonna get to OCS without some time in service. Also remind him that Infantry leads the way. And Airborne fights first.

In 1982 I scored a 98 on my ASVAB. I enlisted as a Security Policeman and dog trainer/handler. Midway through basic training, at which I received all three ribbons (basic training ribbon, marksmanship and honor grad) I was called to the orderly room and notified that my enlistment contract was being canceled and handed me a slip of paper, upon it was three AFSC's Histologist/Morgue Attendant, Nuclear Medicine and linguist. I was told to pick one of these occupations or
I was to be discharged by weeks end for the good of the service and sent home. If I so desired I could try to enlist again. In six months in another branch of service. I was given 5 minutes to make the most important decision I would ever make at 17 years of age. All because the Air Force couldn't get enough quality applicants to score high enough on the ASVAB to qualify for these AFSC's. So insteadof being rewarded for being in the top 2% of all recruits and a GT score of 132 my lowest being a 122 in clerical. I was punished by losing my dream job of becoming a dog handler/trainer and Security Policeman in the Air Force. I was exposed to death on a daily basis. Human bodies ripped apart, mutilated and burnt beyond any recognition by the machines of war 4 years of hell. I've seen every way a human being can die. All because I scored too high a score on that test. And I still being punished with flashbacks, nightmares. Agoraphobia, PTSD, violent outbreaks. Severe depression, multiple suicide attempts, Can't hold a job. What's the point we die no matter what we do, we're gonna die, but which horrible death awaits us? Burned up? Cancer ran over by a Bradley APC? Direct mortar hit? All our deaths are waiting for us , everything else is just a distraction ( job, relationships, vacations) to keep you from thinking about how your gonna die. Take it from. Me not many of us die peacefully in our sleep. Most deaths are painful, gruesome long suffering horrific events I've seen and lived it every day I served It was a new lesson on the carnage involved when steel meets human flesh at high speed (E=mC2) energy equals mass squared. My prowess at taking tests, my ability to retain all I read, has brought me nothing but pain and sorrow. Disappointment and depression. Literally caused from picking up Bodies and body parts at Air craft accidents, heads and arms and feet at the point of impact when fully loaded UH -60 meets another fully loaded UH-60 twenty feet off the deck traveling 85 knots per hour. Rotor and tail blades have no mercy on human flesh and do not let go or quit no matter how loud you scream UNCLE!!! the full tanks of JP4 will fuel the fires and insure any unlikely survivors will suffer a painfull and gruesome death. 14 soldiers remains burnt, chopped to piecesand strewn in the Mohave desert. Because the size of the area of the crash site and the dispersion of human remains of great distance in all directions, the animals that are indigenous to the desert were enjoying a free meal before we could scour and recover all the bits and pieces. Akuna Ma Tata. The circle of life. It consumes me to till this day it haunts me. I wasn't offered OCS, no perks, no bones, no rewards, but I was given a lifetime supply of mental anguish and toture, memories of young brave men decapitated and his foot being carried off gripped tightly in the jaws of a half starved, but extremely great fully emaciated coyote. I hope your experience in the military can become as vivid and memorable as mine still are. Ahh the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you Uncle Sam!!!!

Unless he has a bachelors degree he cannot go straight to OCS.