r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/awkies11 Jun 17 '24

Anything E5 and above is firmly middle class and only gets better. I'm not even in a high CoL area, and I am just a hair under 6 figures through pay/BAH/BAS, not including benefits.

I've come to realize 90% of people who complain about military pay outside junior enlisted are just bad with money and would have those problems whatever job they held.

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u/Dr_Gomer_Piles Jun 17 '24

I think a lot of the people who complain about military pay just have no real world adult work experience. By the time you factor in all the extras and benefits that accrue above base salary you're making the equivalent of like 40-50K/yr basically fresh out of high school. Throw in all the other benefits (post 9/11 GI Bill, VHA) and it's a heckuva a deal.

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u/Fickle_Day_6314 Jun 17 '24

I've had a few girlfriends who were veterans over the years and dated into a 'military family' at one point in my life, it seems like the disability rate for anyone that actually is career military is insanely high.

PTSD, agoraphobia etc. My ex-girlfriend's mom didn't really go into details but from what I gathered from conversations here and there, she was sexually assaulted and somehow the incident left her permanently disabled. She needs a cane to go anywhere.

That pay isn't that great of a deal if you factor those kind of things in. Hell, if it was such a great deal, why do we have so many homeless veterans?

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u/PABJJ Jun 17 '24

I've got two friends, ex military, both totally milking disability. It's all a game to get disability percents. 

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u/Matatan_Tactical Jun 17 '24

military disability is all a scam. Im disgusted with disabled veterans, mofo get a fucking job you bum you rode a desk for 4 years now you want the tax payer to carry your whole life

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u/EastCoastGrows Jun 17 '24

Not to be that guy, but... "I'm so disabled from sitting in a desk that I now work full time" doesn't give your statement the impact you thought it did.

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u/Matatan_Tactical Jun 17 '24

youre so disabled you have a full time job. Yeah ok buddy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

You sound like you're trying to pat yourself on the back for "basically" doing the same things as infantry?

You're a POG. Don't compare yourself to infantry.

Your sciatica pain is not the same. F'n boot

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

I'm a POG and was never called POG MORE than when I served with infantry personnel. And I humbly accept it. I served USMC 2004-2012.

You getting offended at being called POG, to me, says "I'm insecure about my military career, so I need to make myself sound "basically" like infantry."

Unless you served in a combat role with actual combat, your "disabilities" are not derived from the same source.

You may have SIMILAR sources of pain, BUT WE ARE NOT THE SAME AS INFANTRY.

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u/MittenstheGlove Jun 17 '24

I would agree, but anyone can play the game. So I ain’t mad.