Lets talk about the US Military...

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Originally Posted by Lauren Reid

okay this is NOT going to be helpful, but Lynette made me think of it when she mentioned there are a lot of non-combat positions.........

when my DH enlisted and took the test to see what he'd qualify for... he passed for whatever the high up stuff is (like engineer and what not)... but when DH when to watch the tapes of all his options.... he CHOSE combat... and not only that he wanted to be one of those crazy guys that jumps out of planes (Airborne). And when he told the recruiter he wanted Infintry, he said "NO"!!!

hahahahah i guess he would get paid more if DH had taken a higher position.

anywho, that's my "husband's a nut" story.....

xooxox

ps. good luck w/ your military decision! xo

LOL! I told my DH there was no way I was allowing him to do Airborne. And yeah, combat positions are actually really sought after, I think partly for the cool factor. I was just glad my DH wasn't into all that, I don't think I would have married him then.

One other thing I wanted to mention, when my DH is home, his job is just like any job with pretty regular hours. He usually works about 9-4, and then hits the gym for an hour after so he's always home no later than 6, usually more like 5. He's actually been home as early as noon on some days, depending on what's going on. He almost never works weekends or nights either.

Because they know the deployments are tough, most commands try to give a lot of time off when they're home. All 3-day weekends are always 4 day weekends (that might be military wide, not sure), plus they have days where if they don't have activities or training planned, they get the day off. We've had quite a few times where there's been several 3-day work weeks because of the way the holidays fall.

Plus before and after deployments, and I think maybe Christmas and summer? they have what they call "block leave" which is when the entire unit is authorized to take vacation all at once. It's usually anywhere from 2-3 weeks which is pretty nice. It definitely beats only getting 2 weeks of vacation a year like most jobs.