A friend has just entered boot camp from DEP last month. The enlisted recruiter told him to go nuke since it's the hardest program. Here's an e-mail excerpt:
Does anybody know how the recruiter could possibly make 64 grand when E-4 maxes out at 22 grand base pay? For a recruiter to make 30 extra grand a year, he must be recruiting a lot of nukes, which is why it sounds fishy (he wanted me to go nuke also) which is why I ask.
Also--E-5 after nuke school, does that make sense? This is probably NUPOC he's talking about.
But let's say it is fact. So another question--what's better, E-5 or O-1? I know O-1 pays more base pay, but are there any valid reasons why someone would want E-5 over O-1 if they could go either way? Two reasons I can think of is that an E-5 has less responsibilities and is half-way up the enlisted ladder. Could my friend really become a 20-21 year old E-5?
If things happen along the way that interfere with my becoming a pilot, at
the very least I'll have the best paying entry-level job in the Navy and
I'll have a better chance of some sort of leadership position later on down
the line. I'll be an E-4 in less than 8 months from now and an e-5 by the
time I'm finished with initial schooling. That's the same rank as my
recruiting officer right now, who is making 64,000 a year. And then the
jump to officer status is almost granted to Nuclear Field graduates.
Does anybody know how the recruiter could possibly make 64 grand when E-4 maxes out at 22 grand base pay? For a recruiter to make 30 extra grand a year, he must be recruiting a lot of nukes, which is why it sounds fishy (he wanted me to go nuke also) which is why I ask.
Also--E-5 after nuke school, does that make sense? This is probably NUPOC he's talking about.
But let's say it is fact. So another question--what's better, E-5 or O-1? I know O-1 pays more base pay, but are there any valid reasons why someone would want E-5 over O-1 if they could go either way? Two reasons I can think of is that an E-5 has less responsibilities and is half-way up the enlisted ladder. Could my friend really become a 20-21 year old E-5?