9 Dec 2023 8:34 am
Sure, there are some decent benefits if one can stick it out.GHETTOBLASTER » 08 Dec 2023, 4:48 pm » wrote: ↑ How many OJT programs do you know of that pay $2100 / per month with a fairly decent pay increase schedule, qualify as your medical insurance requirement for life, offer learning a marketable skill and tuition assistance in Advanced Training and in the civilian world once you are discharged...?
The free medical insurance for life [VA benefit] alone is worth $10,000 a year
How does being fully vested in a pension by the time you reach age 38 sound...?
I came so close to signing up in 1979, till I found out an E-3 was making about $6k a year. Within a few years I was making 5 times that amount and actually got paid for the hours I worked.
I was probably a little too much of a nonconformist hippy type back then, I made the right choice for me.