Ok so I will be going to Balad Air Base in Iraq next year and was curious as to what additional pay I will get while I am there.
I will be a staff sergeant (E-5) when I am there.
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Ok so I will be going to Balad Air Base in Iraq next year and was curious as to what additional pay I will get while I am there.
I will be a staff sergeant (E-5) when I am there.
$100 hazard duty
$150 hostile fire
no taxes
$1000+/- Housing
$250 food allowance
if youre married or have kids you also get $250 family seperation
all figures is per month
Originally Posted by bdydrpdmazda
He MAY get hostile fire. However if he's on base the whole time, he definitely will not get hostile fire pay. (At least in the Army i didn't get hostile fire pay, and there was a point we were being shot at.)
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Yeah I prolly wont get hostile fire pay then, because i will never leave the base.
You da man
my housing allowance is $950 for hall county so I wouldnt think yours would be any lower than that for athens but i dont think it would be much more, you can google BAH rates and find out by typing in your zip code
I already know how much my BAH is. It's 733.00 here in Athens.
ahh, i forgot you werent married so you get the bah rate without dependents, my bad.
Yeah it's all good I don't really wanna get married just yet lol.
it would make about a $500 per month difference
I just looked and it was it barely jumped 100 dollars if I was married
www.defensetravel.dod.mil/pdcgi/bah/bahsrch.cgi
this time around Im on a base all day and I get it, they even get it in kuwait.
hmmmmm maybe i will get it then.
Lucky assholes. Guess Rangers don't get compensated like the more important folk who run the computers :|
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I dont touch computers, Im 11b. I just got out of the army in 2007 and they called me back in and threw me in a cav national guard unit, i get the easy money this time around, last time i was here i wasnt so lucky
This fool chills on IA all day
hostile fire pay??? lol AF wont see any CA in Iraq. And how did you pick up E5 so damn fast thats good shit. But ya BAH, Hazardous duty, Food Allowance, and all that good ish.
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it doesnt matter if you leave the wire or not, everybody that is considered to be in a combat zone gets it, even in kuwait.
I test for E-5 in january, I had to finish some testing and stuff and I did it in one UTA weekend and my 1st sert said it normally takes most people 6 months so he moved my promotion date up for me.
I ranked to E5 in 17 months. From Private to ranger, to ranger battalion, then SEREs POW, then Q course, then left the military.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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AF has a few AFSC's that are combat oriented(TACP, CCT, PJ)..not all just sit on base. And security forces don't really count, even though on occasion they do see combat(rarely).
But yeah, from what I understand there's not a whole lot going down in Iraq anymore.
Oh ya I know AF has their elite... Ive worked with a few... I just know haji isnt one of them. Plus nothing is in Iraq... the rest of us are staging up for Afghanistan
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gooood gooooood
How the fuck do I make a poll I can't figure this shit out....
Not saying like Jihad isnt a good airmen and all I just know its probably not his job
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I'm in right now Kuwait, doing my tour. I got tax free, hazard duty, hostile fire, bas, no bah since I'm still living in the dorm, no seperation either since i'm single, i also heard we get per diem but wont received that until you finish your tour.
AHHHH, yes I forgot about per diem, after you get back, you get $3.50 PER DAY that you were outside of the US. It doesnt sound like much but it really adds up. After my last deployment I got like a $3,000 check for my per diem.
damn, how long was your tour to add up $3,000 for per diem? lol
my tour is only 6 months, so i should get around $600.
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