Manawski_ t1_j410zbm wrote
Reply to comment by 6disc_cdchanger in Amid recruiting crisis, Army makes new companies for recruits who don't meet academic, fitness standards by GaryOaksAlcoholism
Base pay, sure. If they're calculating in BAS/BAH, then 40k isn't far off.
If it were a true apples-to-apples like some fresh out of high school retail worker making 23k was going up against our hypothetical E-1 buddy to rent an apartment off-base (highly improbable that an E-1 ends up off-base but let's just play the game here), the E-1 is going to all of the sudden have a whole lot of tax-free BAH money to pay rent where the civilian can go kick rocks.
Paladoc t1_j41cvph wrote
In a nigh infinitesimal number of cases would BAH/BAS be approved for an E-1, but you can calculate like a third of that rate, as they do get fed and housed, just sometimes in 24 man bays or 4-6 man rooms.
monogreenforthewin t1_j41wdak wrote
just sometimes in 24 man bays or 4-6 man rooms.
that's really only in training or deployment scenarios. stateside, i never had more than two soldiers to a room in the barracks.
Paladoc t1_j44nq9q wrote
Yep, why I said sometimes. Someone shouldn't be an E1 for that long post boot
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