Armed Forces

[ssj245]

I was thining of joining the armed forces, alot of my friends are enlisting in all the diffrent braches of the forces.

I was just curious to how much money do officers in the diffrent braches make?

My friend wants to be an Intel Officer in the Army and he said that after 5 yrs of serving that his friend got a job offers of 200k on an average for his skills and services. I was thiking of doing the same.

Are there other specialites in the armed forces that after you do your stint that you get large offers of money for your services.

 

[Bible_Belt]

imho, stay out of the military. War sucks. My cousin enlisted, did a tour of Iraq, and now wants out, but they won't let him. They're sending him back to Iraq instead.

If you must join the military, ROTC is the way to go. If you can get a scholarship, and it is not that difficult to get one, they pay for college up front, and you go in as an officer after college. Check the current 2nd LT pay grades, but it's thirtysomething a year plus all kinds of fringe benefits. Officers get paid well, and they are also more insulated from risk of bodily harm. It is disproportionately the enlisted people who die in a war.

 

[sifer]

My advice is to stay out.

 

[penkitten]

depends on what you are looking for.

 

[Rovalier]

Be sure to watch Heavy Metal Jacket

That Kubrick classic never gets old

 

[Fitch]

imho, stay out of the military. War sucks. My cousin enlisted, did a tour of Iraq, and now wants out, but they won't let him. They're sending him back to Iraq instead.

If you must join the military, ROTC is the way to go. If you can get a scholarship, and it is not that difficult to get one, they pay for college up front, and you go in as an officer after college. Check the current 2nd LT pay grades, but it's thirtysomething a year plus all kinds of fringe benefits. Officers get paid well, and they are also more insulated from risk of bodily harm. It is disproportionately the enlisted people who die in a war.

How do you know?

 

[Bible_Belt]

The way that warfare is changing is making officers less protected from harm, but an enlisted soldier is still more likely to get hurt.

http://icasualties.org/oif/US_NAMES.aspx

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache...es+enlisted+officer&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=13
MILITARY DEATHS
March 19, 2003 Through February 4, 2006 *
Army
Officer 238
E5-E9 722
E1-E4 1287
Total 2247

http://www.g2mil.com/shrinkofficers.htm
Over the past 12 years, the officer/enlisted ratio in the US military has slipped from one officer for every six enlisted; to almost one officer for five enlisted.

The officer corp is around 20%, and they only make up about ten percent of the deaths, your risk of dying as an enlisted soldier is much higher.

 

[Fitch]

However there are more enlisted soldiers than officers.

 

[manuva]

It depends what you're looking for.

Certainly you can get skills in the army that civilian companies will pay you well for.

I did my time as a grunt, including time as a para and beyond, and I have a lot of options open to me. Many old mates have discharged and are serving as private security in Iraq, and being paid $USD1,000+ per day. Tax free.

I've had similar offers made available to me, although I feel I'm done with that part of my life and have little inclination to carry a weapon again.

Your best post-army careers are for former special forces soldiers, or high ranking officers.

I wouldn't, however, recommend doing time in the forces simply because of the career options available afterwards. You won't survive if thats your only motive. You want to be doing it because you want to do it.

 

[Fitch]

It depends what you're looking for.

Certainly you can get skills in the army that civilian companies will pay you well for.

I did my time as a grunt, including time as a para and beyond, and I have a lot of options open to me. Many old mates have discharged and are serving as private security in Iraq, and being paid $USD1,000+ per day. Tax free.

I've had similar offers made available to me, although I feel I'm done with that part of my life and have little inclination to carry a weapon again.

Your best post-army careers are for former special forces soldiers, or high ranking officers.

I wouldn't, however, recommend doing time in the forces simply because of the career options available afterwards. You won't survive if thats your only motive. You want to be doing it because you want to do it.

You served for the United States?

What benefits are offered to grunts?

 

[manuva]

No mate I'm an Australian.

There's a ton of benefits for Aussie diggers, not sure about US army.

You earn those benefits tho - I'm not sure my body will ever fully recover from the trauma I put it through. Knees, ankles, backs... you name it, guys broke it.

The philosophy of the day was, "you get broken, you get patched up for free, so what's the problem?".

 

[bbestar]

Watch saving private ryan a couple times, makes me want to join the forces!