would you go to iraq?, mainly for those of yall who are/were in the service and are married o Options

[celicak]

ok so i'm sure alot of you have heard that the government is pulling out alot of non essential troops and sending in government contractors. they're paying about $100k non taxable for a year. now if you had the option to do this would you take it? if so are you married, single, prior service?

[Mynzeyes]

ok just to clarify. it's on a military base and you don't leave basically you sit there out of harms way and collect a paycheck. every three months you get 10 days off and an extra $1k dollars for a plane ticket to wherever you want to go. and yes most people don't get a full $100k but with the job that i'd be doing i'd "work overtime" which would equate to between $100k and $130k. i just don't know it's a good opprotunity and i'm not worried about the danger i mean this is what i've been trained for. the only problem i have is leaving my wife for a year. then again i would be able to see her every 3 months and i have the option to leave whenever i want to. hm...it would create a good base as far as my retirement goes not to mention what i could do to my car with a fraction of that money. i dunno what do yall think?

that's true. but all i'm going to say is the government is probably compensating for, and i mean no disrespect by this, people like yourself not wanting to do it so they have to pay some good money to convince people to do it. don't get me wrong if i was 100% going to do it i wouldn't be asking yall's opinion i just dunno. another thing is i don't know that i want to do it because if i go over there for a year and make $100k it would be hard to come back here and get another job makeing WAY less while i go to school. i just think it may be too good of an oprotunity to pass up.

I'd go. You are trained for this. You will be on a military base. And you get 10 days off every 3 months. 100-130k a year. Sure, a wife is more important than that, but just think of what you could to for her, or could do together, with that extra money coming in. Especially if you have the option to leave at any time. It'd be hard to leave her, but it's what you're trained for. Everyone else on here is talking from a point of view of not having ever served, so they only know how dangerous it is based on the news. But most people don't know that there are safe places to go in Iraq and Iran. You just don't hear about them. I'd go for it, personally.

-John-