Lets talk about the US Military...

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Originally Posted by nun69

I just wanted to add I am currently on active duty Navy and I would personally recommend looking into the Air Force as an option{don't get me wrong girls I am not knocking in of the other services because I just spent 7 months with the Army and they were AWESOME}....BUT the 18 1/2 years I have been in, the Air Force treats their people ALOT better than the other services when it comes to just about everything...{i may be wrong on some of these things, but this is what I have gathered over the years}...their housing is 10X better than any other military housing I've seen in the other branches, you can be in a certain area for longer than the Navy {this I know}, and they seem to make rank { means they move up the ladder in income and responsibility} faster than the Navy and overall I get the feel that people in the Air Force never have any regerts where some people in other services do...

Well there's a reason it's known as the Chair Force. I do agree some with what you're saying though. My DH was already in Army ROTC when I met him so I didn't get a choice but I probably would have pushed for the Air Force if I'd have a choice. (I still do sometimes tell him he should have chosen Air Force ROTC instead when he complains about the Army, haha.) It is true that their deployments tend to be shorter (6 months?) and I think less often as well. They also have a lot more cooler locations to get stationed, at least I think anyway. The Army gets a bit screwed in that regard but such is life, haha.

As far as housing, it is always going to depend on the base. We have an Air Force base near us and I think the housing on Ft Carson looks a lot newer and nicer, but the commissary (grocery store) on the AF base is much nicer.

I don't know if this is still the case but I know the Air Force was actually turning people away at one point. When my DH graduated college, some of the people he knew that had done Air Force ROTC were being told they didn't have space for them so they could either get out of the military or become an Army officer instead. That was 4 years ago though so it could be different now.