>When the ships are in port, they are told to stay at home because it literally costs too much money to have them on duty.
dude what? that's not true at all, you still have to go in for an 8-4 work day and make normal salary. you even have the cooks cooking lunch so you can eat For Free(tm). there's also overnight duty watches.
>can't even afford to sail into combat operations in Somalia with full crews
crew sizes dropped since you're not allowed to bunk sailors in random non-mess spaces on cots and shit anymore, and they leave space to embark police units
>all of 5 frigates to defend it. Its a fucking disgrace.
it's more like 4 or 5 per coast, plus like 12 MCDVs total, and the coast guard, and a gaggle of new ships coming out soon
the navy has gobs of cash right now dude, we just got new helicopters, they're playing with drones and standing up cyber ops units, recruiting is back up, i dont know where the money came from but the navy is obviously real flush right now
>Nope, they get 50% "port pay" which is basically slightly above minimum wage for everything below PO1 (OR-7 the US would call it), and if your full time you can't take another job.
this is also absolutely incorrrect. you make your normal wage, which is actually pretty decent (it's salary so idk the actual hourly but it's more than enough if you're not a retard who leases a charger and blows a grand on hookers every week (i.e. it's not enough for anyone who isn't at retiry age)) and you are allowed to moonlight as long as it doesn't interfere with your duties.
you ALWAYS make spec pay if you have it, and sea pay and operational pay combined don't amount to a doubling of your base wage. it's more like 1.2x or so iirc (though it seems like more since while you're out, you have less to spend money on)
even as a reservist i made 15k a year on two nights a week. working full time i made that much in one exercise
burgers and false flaggers are fucking triggered today holy shit
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