Military people
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Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 682
From: Delaware
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
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
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 2,748
From: Columbia IL/St. Louis MO
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.
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.
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From: transylvania
Originally Posted by boxrs4sale' post='777558' date='Nov 11 2005, 11:20 AM
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
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From: Disclaimer: posts made after 11AM are most likely alcohol induced. Please disregard unless very funn
the Sugarbear Chinooks should be deploying before too damned long. Every other Chinook unit has been over to iraq or afghan so far...
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From: Okinawa, Japan
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.
Now go ask the Air Force about promotions.
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From: Okinawa, Japan
Originally Posted by sweet7' post='777549' date='Nov 12 2005, 12:41 AM
I shiver at night and sweat all ******* day. I'm the right-hand bitch for an O-6 and make approximatley **** in a jar as far as money goes. I've spent my entire military life either in some stupid school getting my ***** smoked off or in Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm ready to get out.
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 *** 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....
