>With “sea pay” I assume you are on boats for a time? Generally, yes. One could expect to spend somewhere between 0 and 65% of his entire 3 year tour out to s

>With “sea pay” I assume you are on boats for a time? Generally, yes. One could expect to spend somewhere between 0 and 65% of his entire 3 year tour out to sea. >Also all the strict regimentation that comes with the military jobs(the UCMJ is a lot stricter than regular law). This is basically not a problem, though with notable 2020 exceptions. >For instance would you have been as willing to walk away from the role if it was paying 500k? All other things being held constant, I'd have stuck around for that, yeah. But I think the military could fill those jobs much more cheaply if they got other stuff right. Some of it results from byzantine regulation that will never be corrected, but there are lots of changes that could yield huge improvements to quality of life for cheaper than doubling salaries. I'll also say that it's a cool job with a sense of meaning that I perceive to be generally missing from workplaces, based on discussions here and elsewhere. In the end, though, the time away from my kids is too high a cost for all that.