28 Y/O thinking about joining the military (air force or army)

[that1gurl77798]

@ray88c If you succeed and don’t get hurt there’s no reason why you can’t do 20-30 years and retire. I’m not sure why anyone who wanted to stay in couldn’t other than a health (including weight issue), or they got in trouble.

Pay once you get to your second enlistment is pretty fine. Since you already have an associates you could theoretically bang out a bachelors online at ASU, for example. Then you could go to OCS. Officer pay is much better and there are older lieutenants that enlisted first, then went to school.

The military is having trouble recruiting, that tells me long term your options are probably even better than when they were downsizing following Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

[that1gurl77798]

Also, I’m not sure why you aren’t considering the Navy. If you are interested in seeing the world about a 1/3 of the navy is out at sea at any point. Plus, all their bases are coastal. Army and Air Force bases can really, really suck. That might seem trivial until you have to live there for four years

 

[ray88c]

@that1gurl77798 For me it was just being stuck on a boat

 

[april303]

@ray88c Depending on your rate, you may never be on a ship, or you may never get off.