Although Malcolm Gladwell claims in his latest New Yorker article that the Marines aren't much interested in whom they select to be a Marine, the reality is that the military has been intensively testing applicants since 1917.
Sci-fi novelist Jerry Pournelle passes along this item he recalls from the Army Officer Candidate School test he passed to become a teenage artillery officer during some of the worst fighting of the Korean War against Mao's million Chinese "volunteers."
"Q. You are in charge of a detail of 11 men and a sergeant. There is a 25 foot flagpole lying on the sandy, brush-covered ground. You are to erect the pole. What is your first order?"
"A great military officer qualification test question"
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