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Originally Posted by Cmart
Hmmm...
I made about $35,000 in seven months in Iraq.
I worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. I had a few days off, but I had several days of working 17-hour days too, so I'll call that even.
210 days times 12 hours is 2,520 hours.
Divide my pay by the hours I worked and I was paid $13.90 an hour, straight time, not figuring in any overtime. If this was based on a civilian payscale the hourly would figure to be significantly less.
This is for IT work and comms work. It's significantly low for pay in my field.
...and we get shot at.
I suppose next we'll hear how teachers are overcompensated.
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This is the most extreme possible example in a time of war. Just from the number above, that's over $60k a year for the limited education most military members have. You still did not figure in your free health care, free food, free housing, tax benefits, and all the other extra incentives you get.
And again, for the other posters complaining about grunt work, it was your own personal choice. No one forced you to sign up for the job. You could have just as easily signed up to sit behind a desk, or not even signed up at all. This is my opinion. There is no way in hell someone with a GED shredding papers should be making more than an engineer. I'm suprised so many people are arguing otherwise.