I believe the navy should get lower pay then the rest of the branches; Do You?

Question

Here's my point. When is the last time you heard of a navy ship being sunk in battle? The real brave are the pilots off the carriers, and lst's etc etc. they actually go into the battle zone. But the rest are like stewrads or office guys far far away from any danger. They dont deserve the same pay scale, especially compared to the ground soldiers! Sure they use the ships to soften up targets, but absolutely no danger to those on board. Lets cut their pay for personell on board ships and put the money to pay raises for the REAL SOLDIERS!

Answer 1

I agree but navy corpsmen get sent out with the marines so they should get a raise. Anyone on a submarine, destroyer, carrier should get pay cuts. Better yet make them cut a check to a "special marine" with a nice thank you note.

Answer 2

Here's a reply from a Soldier (that's me; 101st Airborne Division. Infantry) regarding your suggestion.

That is the most retarded thing I have heard all day, on or offline. In fact, you are probably going to beat every retarded question I will hear from one of my privates for the rest of the week, and that is no small feat.

The Navy is a small enough service with hardly any "pork" to cut. Everyone is more or less gainfully employed in the Navy (especially compared to some of these Army units out there). It's not a thousand-ship Navy anymore, thank you very much.

How do you think our heavy equipment and the vast majority of our supplies in the Army gets to theater? Pelicans carrying it all in their beaks? Leprechauns hauling them over rainbows? It's called SEALIFT. You know, on ships? The gray, metal things that float on water? The kind that those "stewrads"[sic] that you so despise expertly around the globe? The sort that - surprise - NAVY personnel man and maintain?

Determining base pay solely on distance from the battlefield is asinine and flat out ridiculous. Special pays for deployment, hazardous duty, demolitions, flight, sea, and such reward combatants more than adequately. If you're doing "work" that brings you into harm's way, DoD more than compensates you for it, whether through special pay, increased promotion rates in your MOS field, or awards.

So as a REAL Soldier speaking to - God knows what you could be. Civilian? Recruit? Wannabe? - please shut the hell up and get a reality check, and stop insulting our Navy brethren. Thank you very much.

Answer 3

you are one of the biggest idiots i have encountered this year. Congrats. Just becasue you can't qualify for the navy and have to take a ground combat job doesn't mean that the navy is lesser service, just different. Tell the navy seals, seabees, EOD, and the hundreds of sailors who have volunteered to go to Iraq to help the army and marines out, that you are a huge douche and shouldn't be allowed to talk to others. It takes a lot to carry a gun, try operating a nuclear reactor on a submarine like I do. Should all military get more pay, YES. Can you ask for that without being a retard? Apparently not.

Answer 4

Wow, how long have you been in? 1 yr or under? There is definitely a bigger picture than what you've got spindling in your brain. Pay isn't for what you do, it's for your paygrade, and I'm guessing you're complaining because you can't advance. We have a ton of navy personnel in iraq and if you can't figure it out - the boats need to be out there for the aircrafts to take off from, not to mention, the carriers are too large to come in unnoticed and they serve a purpose out there. Okay, so you do grunt work, have you forgotten what we're all fighting for? Plus, you should have done your homework before you joined, now get back to work, stop being ungrateful and complaining about other branches. I feel sorry for the people that work around you and have to trust you with their lives, because all you see is how horrible things are for yourself.

Answer 5

There are plenty of Sailors on the ground in Iraq. The Naval Explosive Ordinance Disposal "EOD" teams are some of the most intrepid troops in the world.

There are plenty of interesting ways to die on a ship, too. Ask any sailor who works on the flight deck of an Aircraft Carrier. Getting cut in half by a broken arresting cable is no less lethal than getting cut in half by a car-bomb.

Furthermore, if you want people to volunteer to spend months at sea away from their families (even in peacetime), you can't treat (pay) them with less respect than other service-members.

God bless the Navy! God bless the Coast Guard!

Answer 6

Ummm...Let's see...

Those are Navy pilots flying in those planes. They take off from Navy ships. Navy corpsmen are embedded with Marines. Navy subs and ships provide vital intelligence from dangerous reconnaissance missions.

Oh, and tell the sailors on the USS COLE that they didn't really get attacked because they're "stewards and office guys" far from danger.

Answer 7

April 10, 1963. June 8, 1967. May 17, 1968. November 22, 1975. October 12, 2000. I bet you don't even know what those dates means. "NO DANGER TO THOSE ON BOARD"...tell that to the sailors (and their families) who were killed on board those ships in peace time.
It's sad to see such ignorance.
Try doing a google.com search on those dates and see what you find. Try knowing what you're talking about before exposing your ignorance. Email me, if you have the balls, and tell me what you found. I really don't expect a kid like you to do that.
(USN, retired)

Answer 8

You are joking right? We are an Air Force family and think you are way off the mark with this one. We are all military regardless of branch. You don't have to be on the front lines to be a soldier. The support personnel are just as important!

Answer 9

Tell that to all those boys who died in the bowels of the Arizona. Our ships don't get sunk because we haven't fought against a country with a viable navy in over 50 years. If we did, our sailors would die in droves. The job with the highest casualty rate in WWII- Merchant Marine.

Answer 10

No. You sound like you don't know much about the military. There is special pay for more hazardous duty. Also, ANY one with the stones to join the military shouldn't be cut down by some jerk on a computer.