Strange test during boot camp
I entered MCRD San Diego in January 1995. I believe during phase 1, I was instructed to go to a conference room for some test. I got there and there were already a few recruits (4-5 total) sitting in random seats. It was very surreal and these recruits were all in sister platoons I think.
I remember there being 3 different sections of the test:
The one was Morse code where you were given a set number of letters to memorize for 5 minutes, I think it was around 4 letters, but it's all fuzzy at this point. After the 5 minute timer went off, we were instructed to put headphones on and to decode the incoming Morse code message. It started so fast and I was trying not to panic because I couldn't keep up with that deluge of information.
The second test was a foreign language test where we were told a few words of the language of the dialogue that we were about to listen to. Memorize for 5 minutes and then listen to a very lengthy phone call where a woman was reading a man the riot act in what sounded like a cranky Russian woman. Didn't have a clue what she said, but I believe the male on the other side of that call was absolutely thankful it was by phone. She sounded not nice at all.
I'm trying to remember test 3. I remember doing three parts, but what it was is lost to my ADHD terrible memory.
Don't know why I'm reminiscing about something trivial, but I recently asked another Marine vet and he had absolutely no idea what TF I was referring to.
Also, 15 years later when I was applying for a job at dod, I was denied a security clearance for failure to disclose a prior failure. I never had a security clearance before so I was floored when he asked me about it. Apparently I failed a security clearance screening in April 1995. 1 month after boot camp. I certainly didn't apply for that on my own accord. Right?
Does anyone else have this experience? If so, can you let me know what the hell it was for.