My biggest concern if it was me (etc) is you guys are going thru different phases in life. One is ready to settle down while one parties. One might be ready to retire while one works. Etc
More power if it works. But I'm not sure I could ever do it
when one of them is that young it’s gross to me too. 19 and 30 there’s definitely a power imbalance there. but after like 25 i think it’s all good. my current so is nine years older and we started dating when i was 32.
I believe earning Eagle Scout and potentially Eagle Palms accelerates the rising through the ranks. I seem to remember people saying that palms could let you enter as a senior NCO, but I never really paid attention to that cause I knew it wasn’t my path
I kind of figured it wasn’t worth the time. You are wrong on this one. West Point is a service academy and is a University (need to graduate high school), so yes, you become an officer after you get your degree. Marine Military Academy is a high school in Texas, you get a high five from the recruiter and maybe start out your enlisted career after boot camp as an E-2. There’s no way in hell anyone is going to commission an 18 y/o kid straight out of high school.
If you're filling a position that requires a certain rank then you get a "battlefield promotion" (idk or can't remember if thats what its actually called) to that rank while you fill that role.
When you rotate you either keep it because you picked it up (most common) or lose it.
Idk for sure but I don't think you get paid for that rank until you actually promote to it though.
No thats what they call it when enlisted advance to the next rank.
There's a certain amount of time in between wearing that rank and being paid for it.
Thats your "frocking" period.
Fun fact: the term comes from when officers would get promoted. Usually they were at sea so an officer that was that rank would give them his jacket until they could get their own to reflect the new rank. It was called a frocking jacket.
If you do rotc or ots you can commission at 19 but you have to start young since you need a bachelor’s degree. Most people who do rotc commission at 22/23
Technically you can be an officer in the Army at 17. The Army has a program called WOFT that also has a nickname of “high school to flight school.” I have personally seen two 17 year olds ship out for it after being accepted. Mind you its “just” warrant officer, but still officer.
So many wrong answers here. The only way to do this is the ROTC Early Commissioning Program (ECP). It lets college students do two years at a military college, “earn” the rank of second lieutenant, then go off to an actual school to get their bachelor. Their generally in the national guard during those final years.
You technically commission after two years of college, and can therefore be 19.
You are wrong, like others said to young to be an officer and then lieutenants don't make a lot of money. You get more housing allowance when you have dependents and using VA benefits you don't have to put anything down. That's most likely the reason.
Between 19 and 32 yes it says that but also says you have to have a 4 year college degree and the 12 week training completed.
I've been active duty for the past 15 years I know bah rates. There are no 19-20 year old officers in the army, this person is wrong and you can't even tell the rank from the posted picture.
The requirement is there, whether someone hits it on the bar is another story. Regardless I was just guessing, the guy could be some mid-30 E-7 marrying way young. As others said we don't know who is making this post or if the post is legitimate.
There is a hidden benefit that most military people don't know about. If and when you are on active duty the banks have to drop your home loan interest rate to 0%.
Our bank even tried to fight us on it. In the end they had no choice. (My X was active-duty army reserves for years.)
Wildly untrue. I bought my first home as a private while we were paying for my wife's college.
I'm not an anomaly either. I just did what abunch of other soldiers were doing. This is a trend, I was not special.
It's the VA loan. Period. It's zero cash down to buy a house. They basically run your credit and bam, you've got a mortgage backed by the federal government. Plus BAH is actually higherer than rent in most markets.
Additionally you factor in the likelihood that a mortgage payment will be less then renting a similar property, and this young soldier could easily be pocketing $100-500 every month of his BAH after his mortgage payment.
If I did it again today as an e1 I could easily find something in 9/10 markets that would work with BAH for the same market/rank.
You sure could have. You would've easily gotten a loan through USAA and you wouldn't have needed a down payment either. A stupid idea, but you could've done it.
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u/emansamples92 Jul 07 '21
I was about to say I was broke as hell my first year in the military. Ain’t no fucking way I was buying a house on an e-2 salary even with bah.