Got an email through my school. Basically I could finish out my degree and they'd train me to be a pilot. I would make $60k a year.
Is this BS? Also, would this be like the worst decision of my life? I don't wanna end up fighting for Israeli genocide or Ukraine.
RN I'm studying spanish in guatemala and traveling south america a bit. I've gotten some pressure to consider it. I wanted to hear from y'all because I don't wanna hear a bunch of biased BS.
This isn't a shitpost, and I'm probably not going to do it. Was wondering if anyone in here was in a similar spot.
My gut instinct is that they're telling lies about the pays/opportunities.
Thoughts?
All three of these things will be lies. So many people are told they'll get a cushy gig in the chair force, in a non-combat role, or that they won't even have to leave the US. They're told they'll get a living wage as a commissioned officer.
It. Never. Happens.
What they don't tell you is that even if they do actually bring you on as a commissioned officer is that it'll likely actually take a couple of years of service and at least a couple promotions before you'll get to $60,000 a year. If you end up enlisted which is what happens to most recruits, it's gonna take you 6-8 promotions and 4 full years of service before you're anywhere close to that $60k figure. You'll be making under $35k for at least 3 years before racking up enough promotions. Sure, they'll tell you that you'll be a commissioned officer for having completed college, but they a lot of lies.
I have multiple American family members and family friends who got duped like this, and only one of them who is a doctor actually got the degree, the non-combat role, the cushy stationings in Europe and the US. He's also 59.
Every single person younger than him got nothing but lies and not a single one of them has ever had a single year anywhere close to $60,000 even since leaving the military into theoretically solid jobs in their fields.