(CBRN) Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear

Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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Finshaggy said:
It's on their website. It says there has to be like a Drill Sergeant present and they only let you do it like once a week or something. And I don't care either way. I can use a pay phone and write letters.

Don't you get paid for basic, like weekly or something or is it at the end?
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It's once a month, but you won't need any money until after basic. Sometimes you'll go down as a unit and withdraw for maintenance haircuts or for hygiene supplies, but otherwise, you don't need anything they don't provide until after basic. At PVT, you'll make, like.. 1200/mo? And they take care if food. By the time you're through with training, you'll be a PV2, and you'll make like, 1400. Let me go grab the pay chart.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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Olive Drab Green said:
It's once a month, but you won't need any money until after basic. Sometimes you'll go down as a unit and withdraw for maintenance haircuts or for hygiene supplies, but otherwise, you don't need anything they don't provide until after basic. At PVT, you'll make, like.. 1200/mo? And they take care if food. By the time you're through with training, you'll be a PV2, and you'll make like, 1400. Let me go grab the pay chart.
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And I can score good on any test, I have always done good on tests. The only thing I am not like automatically good with is Math. I usually have to have a graphing calculator or something, but I am not horrible at math, like I never failed a math class.

And I think the pay is more now. I have heard more like 2,000 a month.
 
Olive Drab Green

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Finshaggy said:
And I can score good on any test, I have always done good on tests. The only thing I am not like automatically good with is Math. I usually have to have a graphing calculator or something, but I am not horrible at math, like I never failed a math class.

And I think the pay is more now. I have heard more like 2,000 a month.
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Not that high until you hit E-4 or E-3 with a few years in.
 
Finshaggy

Finshaggy

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Olive Drab Green said:
Not that high until you hit E-4 or E-3 with a few years in.
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The lowest one is $1,500. And you don't even use most of it. Don't they provide pretty much everything you would otherwise have to spend money on usually?

And I am not really concerned about the money. I am more interested in the CBRN stuff. Like afterwards I would probably be able to get cheap NMR stuff and all kinds of other stuff. And while I was in I would learn how other stuff works. And I have not studied too much Nuclear stuff, and the most I have really gotten in to Radioactive stuff is Radioactive Isotopes, I have even taken one.
 
Finshaggy

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And just as an example, David E Nichols is the person who mapped the 5-HT receptors (the Serotonin Receptors) and he got a grant to create a Molecule to prove a theory, so he create Bromo-Dragonfly and all the related Phenethylamines, and then proved his theory. It lasts like 18-24 hours, creates 20 ft tracers, and turns the sky into like an ocean during the day and connects the stars at night like a insect wing.

And he has gotten grants to create all the Molecules related to MDMA, that's where 6-APB was invented, with Government grant money.

And once you have gone through like CBRN it would be a lot easier to just like throw acronyms in to proposals that would make them look closer at whatever your proposal is.
 
Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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Finshaggy said:
The lowest one is $1,500. And you don't even use most of it. Don't they provide pretty much everything you would otherwise have to spend money on usually?

And I am not really concerned about the money. I am more interested in the CBRN stuff. Like afterwards I would probably be able to get cheap NMR stuff and all kinds of other stuff. And while I was in I would learn how other stuff works. And I have not studied too much Nuclear stuff, and the most I have really gotten in to Radioactive stuff is Radioactive Isotopes, I have even taken one.
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They provide you with uniforms, housing, and a chow hall, yeah
 
Olive Drab Green

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Finshaggy said:
Yeah, I know you can leave the base and get a cell phone and everything, and you can get bigger packages. And how often do you get leave?
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You accrue 2.5 days of leave a month, and it has to go through your commander to ensure that there isn't a field exercise or anything coming up.
 
Finshaggy

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And I kind of like just like waking up and living with 100+ other people. It's like when you go to jail or do labor or anything like that, everyone is just the same. There are like Racial divides sometimes, but I am usually really good at bridging that, since I am a Minister and I study tons of History, and while most white Americans aren't in to History too much, everyone else in the world and in America is. So I am usually a good bridge between the Racial divides.
 
Finshaggy

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And the worst part about jail food is just how much they give you, and since you can go off base you can just get other food. But I am just wondering.
 
srh88

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Finshaggy said:
And the worst part about jail food is just how much they give you, and since you can go off base you can just get other food. But I am just wondering.
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you can buy your own food in jail.

fin cant be serious about wanting to join the military. could you imagine being grouped in with fin... everyone doing there thing then theres fin smoking some crazy chemicals while hes supposed to be watching your back
 
Olive Drab Green

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srh88 said:
you can buy your own food in jail.

fin cant be serious about wanting to join the military. could you imagine being grouped in with fin... everyone doing there thing then theres fin smoking some crazy chemicals while hes supposed to be watching your back
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I get you, but maybe it'll help him sort it out. So I'm trying not to discourage him.

Finshaggy said:
And is the food bad? Is it like jail, or is it better?
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The food's pretty good, actually. I know the CBRN school was at Fort Lost in the Woods--err--Leonard Wood in Missouri. I couldn't speak to how it is.
 
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