"Score a General Technical score of 107 or higher and a combat operation score of 98 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery."
DS's friend who is joining the Navy had a score higher than 107 and scored 100 on the ASVAB. At that point he was qualified for every single job in the navy, but he was found to have slight red green colour blindness so is now restricted to naval intelligence. He was crushed but his mother was danging polkas around the kitchen. Just to warn you. They are very, very picky, and getting some sort of waiver is not guaranteed. But the whole special forces thing is about the trauma your son is trying to deal with, alone and without support or understanding.
Just a few random questions:
Why is there a Confederate flag flying on someone's truck on a US military base?
What would the response be if your DS challenged the flying of a Confederate flag on grounds that it is a symbol of hatred and treason, one fully supported by the man who shot Lincoln?
Why is an 8 yo child doing a 1st Grade assessment test?
On to the heart of the matter:
We lived in the nations of Nashville tn* at the time. You even hear gun shots on Christmas in that area. We were only in that area for a year before I got out of the lease and moved to a trailer in the country. ( I hate the inner city ) that area of Nashville is crawling with thugs. He only witnessed violence such as the gun shots once, and once a man tried to mug me, and once the idiot father of my second son thought he would be stupid while drunk. That was only one year. The most of his life he hasn't dealt with violence unless it's how to survive a slender man attack in minecraft or to take on the evil villain of fable. Any time the people fired off shots and he heard them we just told him it was like the army out at the range ( we lived close enough to the range at one point to feel the percussion from the weapons) or someone else practicing lol but somethings are just out of your control, and kids will see something now and then. Btw he didn't see much when I went running out for the two girls; he got yanked from his bed and hidden in the closet with his brother behind a bomb/bullet proof gun case my dad had given me. We didn't have time to tell him what had happened until after the thugs were gone- yes her heard the shots but; he also seen the two girls after and seen they were ok. He also witnessed courage that night
A few points:
*From city-data.com, 2010:
"The nations is the ghetto, the ground is poisoned with lead and mercury from run off from existing factories, the lumberyard,and the oil refinery you are in the shadow of,and people still eat the veggies, everyone has cancer and medical problems, there are patches of run down trailers and shotgun houses with plastic windows,most are below the poverty level,cockroaches run rampant, there are dive bars everywhere ,gangs are always fighting, and everyone there is a dirt redneck, i wouldn't recommend moving to the nations unless you are looking to maintain your meth or crack habit easily, like by hollering out the window. just my two cents as a life long Nashville native"
(Apparently the area is 'gentrifying' now. Probably had a bit of a setback in the housing crisis.)
Would love to know more about the drunk 'idiot father' of your second child and the effect he had on your son 
Slender man -- sweetest Jesus come and squeeze us. What are you thinking 
allowing him to be exposed to that?????
Seriously.
You are making terrible choices and your son is paying the price and will continue to do so.
None so blind as those who will not see.