JackBrannigan
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This. I would advise against being a truck driver.
do people in the military really get paid??
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This. I would advise against being a truck driver.
Aint no miltary person stacking 200k. I doubt a Colen Powell or any 5 star general would stack that much. I doubt one on any job can save 200gs, especially making under 150k a year. Your brother probably makes less than half of that. You must have meant 20gs.
I was in the Navy E4, no kids, had to live on the ship. I was seeing about $900 every 2 weeks.
I couldve gotten married and seen an extra thou a month or so, but I was an IT so, I got out and make a lot more. Military pays great for some skillsets that don't pay well in the commercial sector. Like a gunnersmate or simple cook not chef.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
Aint no miltary person stacking 200k. I doubt a Colen Powell or any 5 star general would stack that much. I doubt one on any job can save 200gs, especially making under 150k a year. Your brother probably makes less than half of that. You must have meant 20gs.
I was in the Navy E4, no kids, had to live on the ship. I was seeing about $900 every 2 weeks.
I couldve gotten married and seen an extra thou a month or so, but I was an IT so, I got out and make a lot more. Military pays great for some skillsets that don't pay well in the commercial sector. Like a gunnersmate or simple cook not chef.
RULE NUMBER ONE OP. Don't listen to anyone under the rank of 0-3 or E-7.
Aint no miltary person stacking 200k. I doubt a Colen Powell or any 5 star general would stack that much. I doubt one on any job can save 200gs, especially making under 150k a year. Your brother probably makes less than half of that. You must have meant 20gs.
I was in the Navy E4, no kids, had to live on the ship. I was seeing about $900 every 2 weeks.
I couldve gotten married and seen an extra thou a month or so, but I was an IT so, I got out and make a lot more. Military pays great for some skillsets that don't pay well in the commercial sector. Like a gunnersmate or simple cook not chef.
my brother been in the army since 2000. he's been deployed to Iraq 7 times and Afganistan 1. in the last 13 years, he's probably spent less than 2 years in the states. He re-uped 2 times while deployed and got 30k plus bonuses for doing so. He literally saved his entire salary like 4 out of the last 13 years. Plus he was getting hazard pay.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
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DStyles
Vegan
reserves? 
ROTC will be paying for my dental school
ROTC will be paying for my dental school
yeah ya brother lied to you-- there is no other incentives besides a bonus so he didnt get 30k extra on top of a bonus
and making 200k over a 7year period is normal
actually that is fukking low
im sure he made way over 200k for his 7 deployments
that aint shyt tho
Good for you.reserves?
ROTC will be paying for my dental school
becoming an officer when you know that you dont plan on doing 20 years is kinda fukked up
you dont get to choose your career field
so you can become an officer of an mos that doesnt make shyt in the civilian world and when you get out you make less than an E3 who ETS'd with a great mos
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dontreadthis
philly.
I graduated last year and have no desire to enlist, just curious because I know a lot of my contemporaries join for monetary reasons.
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yeah ya brother lied to you-- there is no other incentives besides a bonus so he didnt get 30k extra on top of a bonus
and making 200k over a 7year period is normal
actually that is fukking low
im sure he made way over 200k for his 7 deployments
that aint shyt tho
Maybe he meant $30,000+ in bonuses.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
reserves?
ROTC will be paying for my dental school
Direct commission as 0-3 working in the hospital. I respect your choice. Just jealous.
that has to be it
DStyles
Vegan
I think its better for me to do ROTC and have them pay for my dental school plus have a job secured rather than getting out there with school loans although I could probably work with someone else, I rather set up my dental office but the cost is high so I'll just check the teeth of my fellow soldiers
I'll give you that coli discount, might just have to pull out some extra teeth to cover that discount
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
You can resign your commission at any time, with zero penalties involved. We don't have MOS's. It's called branches. You compete for your branch so if you do rotc or an academy it would be hoo of you to get a good gpa, pt, etc. Only way you pick is if you're a professional which is lawyer or medical and you just do a b.s. 4-10 week course and come in as an 0-3.Again. The trick is to make 0-3 and get your triple C which is captain careers course. Once you get that you are guaranteed GS-11 automatic. Unless an E-3 has some secret squirrel job like intel and a gaggle of certs, there is zero chance they'll ever make more than an officer in a less glorified field because their military record will show they had no "leadership" time. Stop speaking about outliers as if it's the norm.