Originally Posted by injuneer

I think you'll find they're on quite a small wage, less than 20K, & from the way I see them rush around I'm also sure it's very physical, not sure I could do it at my age now. Some elitists seem to have the attitude that just because a job is not mentally demanding the people must be lazy or incompetent. I worked on telecoms networks, the work was largely IT oriented & I was paid a very good wage though I wouldn't say the work justified the pay, but that's the way of the market, there are many disparities in working life & I have great respect for manual workers. I agree the armed forces should get a lot more but there's not much they can do about it as they are at the whim of government, I'd be interested to know how much an American soldier gets payed? There aren't many people who want to join a profession to get their limbs blown off or even killed.