WHEREAS, approximately 90 percent of all Idaho high schools administer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery; and

        WHEREAS, the ASVAB is the culmination of more than 35 years of experience and research; and

        WHEREAS, the ASVAB has been reviewed as psychometrically sound and is considered one of the best vocational aptitude indices in the country; and

        WHEREAS, the ASVAB is currently administered in more than 14,000 American high schools to more than 1 million students a year; and

        WHEREAS, the Armed Forces of the United States utilize the ASVAB to determine the capabilities of young people entering the military service; and

        WHEREAS, ASVAB results can be used with all students to increase self-understanding, to encourage career exploration, and to improve decision-making through quality career counseling services; and

        WHEREAS, the ASVAB is offered by the Department of Defense in schools throughout the State of Idaho at no cost to students or school districts; and

        WHEREAS, the 17- to 24-year-old age group traditionally has the highest unemployment rate and a greater number of students taking the battery might improve their economic situation;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the week of March 5 through 19, 2007 to be

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in Idaho, and I urge all high schools in the State of Idaho to encourage students to utilize the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery testing and counseling materials that acquaint students with a variety of career opportunities and vocational/technical training programs.
 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 5^th day of March in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE