>>507664268 (OP)What the US Army doesn't tell you is that you get paid a measly 20k a year, but it's fine, because they cover your food and housing by letting you live in a moldy concrete box and you get to eat sloppa.
No matter how big that bonus looks, assuming you're being required to sign a 5 year contract, that's like making 30k a year to live in a shitty barracks and eat sloppa.
I was in the Army, and I got out. There is no rational economic incentive to being in the military other than getting access to the GI Bill, and even then, you'll want to get out as fast as fucking possible.
I like the Army in concept, but the fact of the matter is that it's a retarded lifestyle, and there's very good reason why people aren't signing up. Rather than offering huge bonuses, they should just pay people a fair amount of money without trying to scam them.
Since the Army won't pay people a fair wage without trying to hoodwink them with gay scams, people aren't going to sign up.
>I can get paid 30k a year to be an aviation mechanic in the Army, or I can get paid 110K a year to be an aviation mechanic at the civilian airport.It's just idiotic. As I said, GI Bill, training, education. That's all the Army has to offer, and that's shit you can get elsewhere, or shit that you want to loot and leave with immediately.
They're going to have retention problems indefinitely until there's a systemic overhaul in how it's run as an employer.
