Thread: joining the army

First both of the units you names are army units. You can request ranger school right out of AIT as well and enlist with a conditional ranger contract but the odds of getting it unless you were awesome as a trainee and you impressed your instructors there alot the odds of getting it are pretty slim.

There is a bit more info here.

There are also a few marine special forces units however they are smaller and almost all are built from people allready enlisted. Marsoc usually draws from people with at least 2 years in but it is not set in stone.

If you are currently in decent academic standing I would actually talk to your schools ROTC office directly. If not go talk to the recruiter.

I'm not sure about the new grading scale last time I took the asvab it was still under the old scale. However getting into the upper percentiles at that time wasn't hard. If you aren't capable of scoring that high perhaps a different MOS or career field is a better match for you.