Another good point, although I don't know if that's still the case. It certainly was 20 years ago. I made E-5 in under 4 years and was eligible to take the exam for E-6 (but didn't bother to) when I got out.

It was not at all unusual for Air Force people to RETIRE as E-5s.

Your Commander in Chief, President Hillary Clinton will appreciate your service recxjake.















/*shudder*

Shudder indeed, but she couldn't be any worse than the piece of shit that's in there now.

She is a women prone to Mood Swings. She might get pissed of at Bill and start a war. Once she is Pres-Monica Lewinsky will mysteriously come up missing.

My advice is stay in school and finish up. If your still serious go in as an officer. Much better pay scale. I am sure you can find the pay scales online.

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/ar...clinton-vi.jpg


funny freaking picture. I found it as a birthday card and sent it to my stepdad.

Agreed.

True but he will gave the respect (assuming he is not an ass) of the enlisted men if he goes in as an enlisted man first, then after getting the degree he goes to OCS and gets his butter bar.

Basically pre-Iraq

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But that's how the President says we can do our part. You just don't get it. You're already helping the war effort.

that's true, in a line unit. But if he wants to go to law school he will probably be repaying his College loans with money from the army while he works in legal affairs or JAG. He can get college over with faster by waiting to join, if he can financially afford to wait.

as far as guards or reserve, I still say reserves, I do not know everything about the guards, but if he were my son with these same two choices I would tell him reserves. Pays the same, can deploy also, (actually more deployments in the guard, because they go to natural disasters too), but the resources are less. The only thing that would change my point of view is if the guards had better retirement. I don't know how their time / point growth rates compare to the reserves.

I'm actually thinking about going back into the reserves as a warrant officer, have a preliminary interview this weekend.

There's a reason they offer 20k to fill these positions. They suck.

If you want to pay for Law School, let the military do it for you in exchange for military law service after you graduate. My buddy did this, they paid his way through Drake, and his position as a military lawyer pays a lot.

This is a smart / good message, it's what I tried to say a few posts ago.