of the 5 friends who come to mind who joined the military:



1-went awol

2-in alaska, bout to go to iraq

3-sits at a desk in virginia

4-works 4-5 / 12hour nights per week and doesn't even touch 37k a year

5-went to iraq for a while, came home, back in iraq

Cletus what do you want to do? So long as its not door kicking and ass kicking you can join the AF and live a pretty comfortable pleasant life.

Just a little insight, my father did 21 years in the Air Force. He did weather recon at first, then became full blown flight engineer. He got out in 01, his retirement check from USAF pays for the house we live in. He works for Boeing Aerospace now, makes a good amount of money, and he does something ENTIRELY different from what he did in the USAF.



He works on all the electronics systems for the Army Gen's plane. He works alot of hours, but he is never gone now, and is home at 4-6pm every night. Sometimes not until the next morning.



Military is good if you have good people inside the military, but if you go in as some dumb kid on the street, then you are going to get fucked.



I am still going to join, I am just enjoying life right now. It is really good ****. Yeah, the pay does suck, but free medical, dental, life insurance at your hands, free living, they even give you food budgets, and clothing budgets. What job will give you that? You can also get a degree out of it.



Good luck man.

who do u know in alaska that is about to go to iraq??? cuz we aint goin for another year... and we the only unit left in alaska right now

the Sugarbear Chinooks should be deploying before too damned long. Every other Chinook unit has been over to iraq or afghan so far...

The one really good thing about the Army is promotions. If you get the right job, E7 in 7 years is a possibility. E7 in 9 years is no sweat. E7 in 11 years is a norm. To make E6 in 5 years is a cake walk with the right job(my job for example). All you have to do is want it.



Now go ask the Air Force about promotions.

What's your rank Ranger? If you don't want to post up here, just PM me. We had some slots for E6's to head to Iraq for a Special Ops assignment. My dumb ass checked e-mails in the afternoon...my buddy checked his first thing in the morning. Well I volunteered but he got the slot. I would have BANKED big on that one....I would have kept my COLA plus gotten tax free and and danger pay/fam sep etc....

the guys that drive the trash truck on our base in afghanistan make $70K+ a year.

I went in as an officer after college because the job market sucked at the time

tax free ?