Pay Injustice
Posted: Sat 11 Sep, 2004 3:13 pm
Does anyone else think it is extremely unjust that if you want to join the navy or army or whatever, then you have a meer 8 weeks training, then pass out and go onto earn an increased salary (roughly an extra 2k)? 
Where as if you're a bootneck, you go through the longest and most arduous basic infantry training programme on the globe, lasting 32 weeks, all on recruit training pay. When (if) you do eventually pass out, you start earning what the army squaddies etc have been on for the past 24 weeks, when you are considered to be an elite soldier.
Personally, i'm not in it for the money, and this doesn't put me off in the slightest, but this seems a little unfair to me.
Yes, yes, i know life's not meant to be fair, but where's the incentive in that?
Where as if you're a bootneck, you go through the longest and most arduous basic infantry training programme on the globe, lasting 32 weeks, all on recruit training pay. When (if) you do eventually pass out, you start earning what the army squaddies etc have been on for the past 24 weeks, when you are considered to be an elite soldier.
Personally, i'm not in it for the money, and this doesn't put me off in the slightest, but this seems a little unfair to me.
Yes, yes, i know life's not meant to be fair, but where's the incentive in that?
) get paid hundreds of thousands a year, but the people risking their lives are stuck with a comparitive pittance.
That makes it a bit clearer.