Navy Seal Vs Swat Team

Jump pay, dive pay, SDA, with whatever speciality skill sets they have that pay. You mentioned hazard duty pay which is only when they're deployed, but that counts, as does the tax free incentive.

I'm not saying they don't deserve it...not in the least. But they are some (if not the) highest paid enlisted in the US military. Not to mention the reenlistment bonuses they get which are commonly maxed out to the highest amount allowed.

Combine that with the high op tempo the guys go through, they don't have a whole lot of time to spend that money since they are always deployed (though some try to LoL)

 

I aim high.

Oh wait, someone took that slogan already.

 

FTFY, and yeah they have

 

Anecdote: I have a currently flying buddy (461st flight test squadron) who makes $82,600 after 10 years of F-16 and F-35 experience.

Anecdote II: I have another friend who retired when they significantly reduced F15 squadrons (its all he ever flew since training) after a full 20 years and he was making around $70,000 when he hung it up.

Pilots have nothing to do with this discussion but that is why they are labeled as anecdotes.

 

Damn.

My wife makes in that range managing a call center for a small-medium credit union.

She's good at her job, don't get me wrong... but she ain't no jet jockey

Shameful if that's truly all those guys make. They must only stay for love of the job.

 

I'd fly one of those for free

 

It seems like the newer generation of special forces wish to boast about their involvement. With books and such. Is it a generational mentality?

 

I like when people chime in about their uncle/cousin/buddy who was a SpecialForcesScoutReconSniper. Always a sniper. If even half of them were true we wouldn't have any room for regular Army!

 

I've known a few men who actually have scars and, presumably, took lives in order to end up still alive with those scars. To a man, none will discuss what they saw & did.

 

Right there.Empty cans and monkeys with the smallest balls.....

 

There was this one time when I was doing a HALO into Mogadishu, armed with nothing but a knife...