Question on US NAVY

[rpm]

Originally posted by Suave
The officers got different food than the enlisted? Man that's messed up. I mean I knew that they ate in a different room, which is also messed up, but I didn't know that they got better food too. Is the navy like that too ?

I thought it was fluffied up that people with spouses and children got paid so much more.  Afterall, being a spouse or a parent is voluntary.

Well not really when you think about it. They were buying their own mess with their own money. Enlisted did'nt eat bad by any stretch of the imagination. I just used steak v hamburger as a metaphor. I remember plenty of lobster on Fridays, steaks once in a while, ect. Sunday brunch was the best! You could order just about anything you wanted from the galley. Of course after you have been out on patrol for 60 days the pickins got mighty slim. When they broke out the canned hams, you knew you would be seeing port soon.

[Lizard3]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
and was going to be loading ord on planes Dunno what the exact title is.
 

We called em BB stackers.

[killnu]

The officers got different food than the enlisted?

not on submarines they dont     we all eat the same food, but officers dont get that BAS where as enlisted do.   all the same food though.

[fd ski]

Originally posted by Martlet
ski:

 A)  volunteer service.  If anyone got screwed, it was you screwing yourself.

B)  Add in medical, room and board, and 30+ paid vacation days (not including holidays), free training and education, and you aren't doing so bad after all.

A - you're right, absolutelly true.

B - you must be smoking crack. Within 6 months of leaving the service i had 4x the pay ( and that's counting the pay with BAS and all the other allowances ), full medical insurance, univesity for free, 401k, free training education and all the bells and whistles. Granted, vacations were only 15 days instead of 30, but trust me, it was well worth it.

I was lucky to be stationed in florida, where it's relatively cheap, i could not imagine being stationed up north with that sort of income.
If i remember correctly my check was about 400$ every two weeks and that's with allowences ( 200$ for rent of the aparetment - which cost way more then that, and allowance for food since i was living off base ). My normal feeding spot back in those days was whichever fast food was having a special at the time

Enlisted pay sucks, no discussion about it, and if you're single, you're double****ed.

[Martlet]

Originally posted by fd ski
A - you're right, absolutelly true.

B - you must be smoking crack. Within 6 months of leaving the service i had 4x the pay ( and that's counting the pay with BAS and all the other allowances ), full medical insurance, univesity for free, 401k, free training education and all the bells and whistles. Granted, vacations were only 15 days instead of 30, but trust me, it was well worth it.

 

Of course you did, because you'd been in the service.  You'd have been flipping burgers at BK if you hadn't.

[fd ski]

geez marlet, you're just a fricking genious, aren't you. So why don't you tell everyone how what i did in service related to what I did right after it. While you're at it, point out what was it i was doing to begin with.

[SunTracker]

A) volunteer service. If anyone got screwed, it was you screwing yourself.

I dont agree.  Just because a person volunteers to protect his nation, that doesnt mean he should get sub-standard compensation.  I hear this excuse all the time about soldiers who are having poor living conditions and poor equipment.

[fd ski]

Originally posted by SunTracker
I dont agree.  Just because a person volunteers to protect his nation, that doesnt mean he should get sub-standard compensation.  I hear this excuse all the time about soldiers who are having poor living conditions and poor equipment.

Actually it's a wodnerful piece of logic. Goes like this:

Go protect your country.
Oh, you volunteered, no wonder you're getting screwed you idiot.

[Martlet]

Originally posted by fd ski
geez marlet, you're just a fricking genious, aren't you. So why don't you tell everyone how what i did in service related to what I did right after it. While you're at it, point out what was it i was doing to begin with.

I'm sorry.  It's been so long since I posted on here, I forgot you were a little slower than most.

It doesn't matter what you did either in the service or after.  The simple fact that you had military service is enough.   That alone boosts your earning potential far over a high school graduate entering the job market.

I'm sorry I didn't spell it out for you initially.  Good thing you went in the service, though.  I think I was overly generous with my original BK example.

[Martlet]

Originally posted by SunTracker
I dont agree.  Just because a person volunteers to protect his nation, that doesnt mean he should get sub-standard compensation.  I hear this excuse all the time about soldiers who are having poor living conditions and poor equipment.

It isn't sub-standard.  In fact, it's far above standard for the qualifications required.