But it would take you much more to jump to that $140k if you were not in military. It wasn’t like you could get that right of the bat. Military experience is

But it would take you much more to jump to that $140k if you were not in military. It wasn’t like you could get that right of the bat. Military experience is valuable on itself. Yes you don’t want to stay there for whole career- but doing 5 or 10 years is going to pay off later. Just be good for your mates ;)