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[JQ Legend]

And I didn't even correctly state just how little enlisted make. You can only get to 30K as an enlisted if you MAKE E-5. An E-4 at eight years would get kicked out for not making that rank, and they max out at 27K. An E-1 fresh out of boot camp makes 17K before taxes.

I can't lie to you when I say that I was making $550 a check when I was an E-1.

I was getting $570 a check after taxes and that was including separate rats

Then I went and got a car and half my checks went to the note and insurance

That was 2002 tho

Pay wasn’t that bad especially after I got my second job on base a couple years later.

But yea officer is definitely the way to go

Speaking of that, I dunno if it was you or someone else but I’m calling on whoever said a Major lives check to check

A 1LT with 2 years in service gets more than an E6 with 10 years in service

Im pretty sure any Major makes more than any enlisted person

 

[88m3]

so sad

 

[old pig]

shyt sound like an extra verse from smooth tha hustlers "broken language" song...

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

We didn't have these problems in the Air Force. nikkas just wanted to punch the clock to get that paycheck. All that extra shyt is clown shyt

eh tbh that shyt was rare in the AF atleast during the time i was in what was prevelant was them damn DUIs

 

[downtheline]

Any female serving/has served has experienced some sort of sexual harrasmemt/assault. It's disgusting, but not at all unexpected. There are some bottom of the barrel folks that are allowed in.

Mix that with terrible leadership, outdated policies, inherent racism, and "old boys club" mentality. It's no wonder it happens.

 

[42 Monks]

Got damn! Military aint shyt! How come this isnt more widely known?

Most people don't even know whats going on in their own neighborhood, campus, or office building

 

[JQ Legend]

Brehs get free food, free housing, 50% off at Chili’s and complaining about pay...

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Got damn! Military aint shyt! How come this isnt more widely known?

Who wants to destroy the illusion? Notice how stories involving the military are swiftly moved through the news cycle i.e. when some cac passes off intel and training techniques off to WS groups (and it happens a LOT. That dummy was just stupid enough to get caught)

 

[HabitualChiller]

Brehs get free food, free housing, 50% off at Chili’s and complaining about pay...

First off, us Navy folk on ships don't even get a food allowance unless we're in yards, so idk what the fukk you're talking about. Secondly, only nikkas that live in the barracks get free housing, and if you're not in the Air Force, then you're living pretty shyttily. The barracks on my base is run-down with no A/C in hot ass San Diego. The food is trash on ships, yet we're forced to give the navy back most of the $374 that they pay us for food.

According to my Personnel Department (navy version of a ships accountant at the individual level), it doesn't matter if you have a family of five, you won't get the food allowance unless you're ship is uninhabitable (the yards).

Housing definitely isn't free. You get a housing allowance that is only good enough to get a sailor that's E-8 and below a 1 bedroom apartment in a place like San Diego.

 

[BadBoy]

I was getting $570 a check after taxes and that was including separate rats

Then I went and got a car and half my checks went to the note and insurance

That was 2002 tho

Pay wasn’t that bad especially after I got my second job on base a couple years later.

But yea officer is definitely the way to go

Speaking of that, I dunno if it was you or someone else but I’m calling on whoever said a Major lives check to check

A 1LT with 2 years in service gets more than an E6 with 10 years in service

Im pretty sure any Major makes more than any enlisted person

I’m sorry but i was thinking about joining the military and now that i did some research into the pay i would either join the marines as a E2 or the army as a e3 and both of these pay are absolutely shyt for 4 years i rather do Uber eats and make 200 a day

 

[HabitualChiller]

How does one come in as an Officer vs an enlisted soldier?



How do you get higher pay? Can't you make more by living off base?

I believe college degree and officer school = officer

Enlisted: Go to Recruiting Station<Speak with Recruiter about enlisting<Take mock ASVAB test, if you score highly enough, then<sign a fukk-ton of papers<doing a bunch of potential enlistee stuff with your recruiter (memorizing the very basics about your branch and the rank structure)<go to MEPS and take the real ASVAB (which is easier than the mock), and sign a metric shyt-ton of papers, and take a bunch of tests and pick your MOS/Rate<go home for 3-6 months and get ready for boot camp.

Officers have a few paths. You can go in via going to a four-year university as a civilian, doing well, then speaking with an officer recruiter and getting sent to OCS (Officer Candidate School).

Or

Do NROTC in college, and become a commissioned officer after graduation.

Or

Go to one of the three service academies.

You get higher pay in the military by making rank, making a high enough rank to get housing and food allowances, being in for certain amounts of time, gaining a dependent, or being in a hazard zone/ a special duty, or getting a bonus.

 

[Yaboysix]

Who wants to destroy the illusion? Notice how stories involving the military are swiftly moved through the news cycle i.e. when some cac passes off intel and training techniques off to WS groups (and it happens a LOT. That dummy was just stupid enough to get caught)

Damn! SMH

 

[42 Monks]

I’m sorry but i was thinking about joining the military and now that i did some research into the pay i would either join the marines as a E2 or the army as a e3 and both of these pay are absolutely shyt for 4 years i rather do Uber eats and make 200 a day

uber eats paying for your home, insurance, or getting you some actual skills to jump ahead of the pack after a few years now?

don't let the knee jerk shyt get the best of you

get you a gi bill, save all of that disposable income, and hit the ground running. delivery drivers get robbed and dropped off every day too b

Who wants to destroy the illusion? Notice how stories involving the military are swiftly moved through the news cycle i.e. when some cac passes off intel and training techniques off to WS groups (and it happens a LOT. That dummy was just stupid enough to get caught)

Illusion of what? people seem more surprised than anything. if people followed local news around any base they'd see this shyt on a regular basis... but who fukks with local news these days

 

[You Win Perfect]

That’s absolute fukkin bullshyt

I read thru all kinds of nonsense in this thread but now y’all getting out of hand

these are the same race of people that fed black babies to alligators and mutilate/torture/rape slaves on a daily basis

whats so hard to believe about any of these stories

 

[You Win Perfect]

Update**

Reached out to breh about this and shyt ended up worse. From other privates he gathered she ended up being discharged on some psych shyt and just tossed into the bushes. She kept her mouth shut about rape and it spread around base so she would end up getting gangbanged and abused until she went AWOL and was found in nearby town OD on meth. Worst part breh said she was a 4 on her best days but i guess p*ssy is p*ssy in the military.

a high school classmate of mine went thru the same in the military she ended up committing suicide at 24.and yes she was white.