It’s even crazier than you think. They actively make it as hard as possible. Live on base?—they take the whole BAH. Live off-base? Cool, well now your BAH probably isn’t enough and you have to commute and checkpoint every day. Living in a high cost of living area? Well they only have a few categories of high CoL, so you might get paid the same adjustment to assign to Langley as you would to Ramstein even with oversea housing allowance. And everything is expensive there.
We did ok. Dad was an officer so he was in the good pay scales, but it was still far from the lavish lifestyles Hollywood might have you think officers live. Maybe the O-7s and above live it up.
He got a phat retirement though. So that’s pretty dope. Personally I’m happy as hell to be 100% civy and working in private enterprise.
Crazy to me that the military can’t pay enough to allow families to be supported on military bases.
It’s even crazier than you think. They actively make it as hard as possible. Live on base?—they take the whole BAH. Live off-base? Cool, well now your BAH probably isn’t enough and you have to commute and checkpoint every day. Living in a high cost of living area? Well they only have a few categories of high CoL, so you might get paid the same adjustment to assign to Langley as you would to Ramstein even with oversea housing allowance. And everything is expensive there.
We did ok. Dad was an officer so he was in the good pay scales, but it was still far from the lavish lifestyles Hollywood might have you think officers live. Maybe the O-7s and above live it up.
He got a phat retirement though. So that’s pretty dope. Personally I’m happy as hell to be 100% civy and working in private enterprise.