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KRoss · 07-28-2017, 11:51 AM

I took the DLAB to humour my recruiter, and got a 124. I felt pressured to relcass to CTI from IC (a rate I was kind of excited for), and now I'm not 100% confident that I will succeed at the DLI, especially since I qualified for Cat IV languages and can only attribute that to test-taking skills, not language aptitude skills.
In the worst case scenario that I fail out of the DLI, what will happen? Will I be put in a lower level language, or will I reclass into whatever has an open spot? Would I get any say, in that case? I've also heard from some people that I would be considered undesignated and sent into the fleet to do grunt work.
Does anyone know (from experience of otherwise) what would actually happen?
I'm not really planning on failing, I'll work hard to make sure I don't, but I really don't feel I can learn a language/culture/etc fluently in a year and a half.

07-28-2017, 11:51 AM	#1
KRoss Newbie Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 6	Worst Case Scenario I took the DLAB to humour my recruiter, and got a 124. I felt pressured to relcass to CTI from IC (a rate I was kind of excited for), and now I'm not 100% confident that I will succeed at the DLI, especially since I qualified for Cat IV languages and can only attribute that to test-taking skills, not language aptitude skills. In the worst case scenario that I fail out of the DLI, what will happen? Will I be put in a lower level language, or will I reclass into whatever has an open spot? Would I get any say, in that case? I've also heard from some people that I would be considered undesignated and sent into the fleet to do grunt work. Does anyone know (from experience of otherwise) what would actually happen? I'm not really planning on failing, I'll work hard to make sure I don't, but I really don't feel I can learn a language/culture/etc fluently in a year and a half.