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[sayhuh?]

you forgot the personalized coffee mugs

Fucking right Nate! hahahaha. I still have my ALS mug...pretty frikken nice one too!

Oh, most have their own computers, own cubes or offices, own hours hahaha. Especially if you look into the job I listed. It's 1C6 satellite operations. You where a flight suit, never have to iron, polish boots and gets you into to some really cool black ops shit. <-TS SCI clearance and possibly more.

Edited January 26, 2010 by sayhuh?

[TeejayBee]

look im just saying this is what im doing im enlisting doing 20 years retiring at the age of 38-39 then i can do anything and still get a check from the gov. its a nice way of life people just dont seem to get that because guess what you arnt going to lose your job you get a check every two weeks cant complain i know im not going to once im in for good

[n8ball2013]

look im just saying this is what im doing im enlisting doing 20 years retiring at the age of 38-39 then i can do anything and still get a check from the gov. its a nice way of life people just dont seem to get that because guess what you arnt going to lose your job you get a check every two weeks cant complain i know im not going to once im in for good

But it is not for everyone. When I first enlisted I thought Id do my four and get out. Well as that time came up I really wanted to stick around. I did my next four and I had grown as a person. met my wife and got married. I don't feel that the military lifestyle is teh best choice for a family. I wouldnt want to be the kid who moved all the time and had to make new friends. I'm a creature of habit and would hate that. I had also changed my views on the whole military concepts of how things get done.

Funny now though I embody that way of thinking and I'm much better prepared for things then I could have been as a snotty nosed college kid.

[TeejayBee]

Thats true but ive been raised in a military house so i need the structure of the job force like even know where i work the people dont communicate so its a shitty thing when i tell a manager i cant work for 10 days because im going to hawaii and then while in hawaii i get a call " why arnt you at work you will be fired"

i said well i re-call writing a note to a manager handing it to her personally and saying what the note said and they still messed up well lucky me they found it and im safe but i need the structure and my girlfriend now of 9 months her old mans in the navy well just retired so shes used to moving and we have talked about this whole thing.

[n8ball2013]

oh and let me add. Don't do it for a chick. Your eyes are going to open wide as fuck as soon as you see what kind of ass you can pull. trust me lol

[Godsmack]

let me start off by clearing what i said up a little bit. lol shes not a military groupie or anything, I've wanted to join for a long time but didnt know how she felt about it. after talking with her about it she actually surprised me and was down for it. she said shes there for me on whatever i choose to do in life and she has her bags packed to go where we need to go if thats the case. im doing this for me, no for anyone else. im into the medical field big time, its like my life. i want to do physical theropy or medical school. those are the two things that interest me the most of all.

my main thing is i want to join and continue in my schooling. i dont know how that works? are you considered active duty? do you get deployed while you are in school? if so do they usually keep it down to a minimum so you can finish school in a decent rate? ive hurd they pay like 2k a month while you are in school and housing allowance as well, is this true?

Active duty depends on what you signed up as. As for school, they pay the school for you. Housing depends on rank, and/or married or not. If your not married expect the barracks. School dont mean dick. If its your turn to go, your going so online is your best bet for school.

Like I said they will pay for most if not all school. It all really depends on the contract you sign.

J

[Neo_frog]

Sad to say it, but everything I'm reading in this thread is true. I was expecting to read another this vs that branch, but good on you guys for giving information.

One thing I want you to do, is pay attention to everybody on here giving you info from all branches. Don't make any rash decisions and look up everything the recruiter tells you. They WILL blow smoke up your ass. Even if they don't, they love to euphemize things to make it sound like a dream come true.

Visit one of each recruiter and see what they have to say. And also pay attention to their uniforms

If you are insistent on medical, I say go Navy. I am a Marine myself, but if you want the best of all the medical in the branches, Navy Corpsmen are the shit.

[FiBTLforlife]

so i talked to a recruter today for the air force. he was telling me that since im a junior that the ROTC program is of no use to me, which i figured that since u apply as a sophmore. so im looking into my options. my goal is going into grad school and finishing my college, only thing is my grad school is allot of money and i dont want to pull all those damn loans for say 150k by the time im done. if i did sign up for active duty, what would this mean. does this mean i get shipped out right away? or do i go do my training then come back and continue school until they need me, then if or when they do i go off for those amount of months. then come back and continue my schooling. only thing im really confused about. my main thing is i want my school payed for and i want a monthly salery of atleast 2k each month while in school

[sayhuh?]

Active duty depends on what you signed up as. As for school, they pay the school for you. Housing depends on rank, and/or married or not. If your not married expect the barracks. School dont mean dick. If its your turn to go, your going so online is your best bet for school.

Like I said they will pay for most if not all school. It all really depends on the contract you sign.

J

This varies from branch to branch as well. I lived off base as an e-3 within 1.5 years of being active duty. Also, Af depends on what job you have if you get deployed. AF sends cops, medical, special forces and pilots. Most AF jobs don't deploy.

so i talked to a recruter today for the air force. he was telling me that since im a junior that the ROTC program is of no use to me, which i figured that since u apply as a sophmore. so im looking into my options. my goal is going into grad school and finishing my college, only thing is my grad school is allot of money and i dont want to pull all those damn loans for say 150k by the time im done. if i did sign up for active duty, what would this mean. does this mean i get shipped out right away? or do i go do my training then come back and continue school until they need me, then if or when they do i go off for those amount of months. then come back and continue my schooling. only thing im really confused about. my main thing is i want my school payed for and i want a monthly salery of atleast 2k each month while in school

This also depends on your career and branch. Again most AF jobs you won't deploy. Like I said earlier, this is mostly business like with a lot more computer, admin, IT type jobs. There are mechanical and more but if you score high enough you can choose what you want to do and sign up with that as a guaranteed job. You pretty much won't deploy AF and they will work with you for your schooling. Once you get trained in what ever job and get to your duty location, talk with your sup and or first shirt and tell them you want to continue with school. They will even give you time off for this. If you take a class that is during work hours, they will allow you to go to the class. I know in my field, they pushed and preached furthering our education. I'm sure all branches do, but I cannot speak for them.

If you finish your degree and get to OTS, become an officer..I know you will make 2k a month, easily.

[Godsmack]

so i talked to a recruter today for the air force. he was telling me that since im a junior that the ROTC program is of no use to me, which i figured that since u apply as a sophmore. so im looking into my options. my goal is going into grad school and finishing my college, only thing is my grad school is allot of money and i dont want to pull all those damn loans for say 150k by the time im done. if i did sign up for active duty, what would this mean. does this mean i get shipped out right away? or do i go do my training then come back and continue school until they need me, then if or when they do i go off for those amount of months. then come back and continue my schooling. only thing im really confused about. my main thing is i want my school payed for and i want a monthly salery of atleast 2k each month while in school

Okay I am going to lay out in order a time line then address your $$$ question

1) Choose Branch (for this instance Army)

2) See recrtuiter again (at this point you should have talked to all branches (Jar Heads, Fly Boys, Squids, Puddle Pirates, and Army [sub note do any of the other branches have ball busting names for us???] And I say all the names with love)

3) Go to MEPS Military Entrance Processing Station

4) Look at jobs and find one you want and a contract you can live with.

5) Sign said contract

6) Waiting time. Use this time to do physical training. I recommend lots of studying ranks, people in charge in the US, and of course SHIT TONS of push ups, sit ups and running. Some branches have other things, like Marines have Pullups, the Air Force have crunches, and the Navy........well I donno.

7) GO TO BASIC At this point the pay, insurence, health care, and people bitching at you kicks in. Bonus (if any) will be discussed later.

GO TO SCHOOL for your job. You will do physical training, school, and studying.

9) If active duty you report to your school. All info following is for Active Duty. If you choose Reserves or National Guard you will go home till your first drill.

10) You can now upon inprocessing go to the college office and learn about the colleges offered on base and locally. On line will be strongly reccomended, and I also encourage this.

As for deployments, they come here and there and are branch of service, job, and duty station specific. For example if you go to Korea you have little to no chance of deployment. You will prolly do alot of field work there, but its not too shitty.

As for money here is a link to the 2010 Military pay charts. You will be looking at the E- section for enlisted. If you have enough college you might be able to come in as an E-4.

Military Base Pay

You will be looking at the first colum as you wont have 2 years.

As for the 2k a month um bro lemme explain something here, since your not married you will get a meal card and thats 3 meals a day at the Dining FACility free. If you somehow get off base housing (which as was already pointed out CAN happen but again is branch and location specific) you will get EXTRA money for housing, and for food. No meal card so if you go to the DFAC you would have to pay. Keep in mind having a civilian girlfriend does not give you any added ability to live off base.

Hope we are being helpful bro!!!!

J