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Transcript:
If you want, you can go to England. (0:01) And I said, yeah, that sounds fantastic. (0:03) So I spent three years working with the air force there.
(0:06) And then after that, they sent me to Germany and I was working (0:08) with the, with the army in Germany. (0:11) So you also changed like service branches, the support. (0:15) And I'm curious, cause we really don't do a lot of military.
(0:18) And I know that this has kind of been your focus is, are there (0:21) different planning opportunities or maybe more considerations between (0:25) different branches of the military? (0:29) Yeah, absolutely. (0:30) So they, a lot of it is focused around lifestyle, right? (0:33) So like the benefits, you know, a lot of the benefits are pretty (0:35) consistent overall, like the pay scales are the same, even though they (0:39) all poke fun at each other and say, you know, the air force makes more (0:42) money than the army, but you know, from a, from a pay scale perspective (0:45) and the allowances, all of that is structured very similarly where (0:50) things are shifting is how the career trajectory looks for an, for an (0:54) individual, like in the air force, they have a lot more specialized career.