What is the Army compensating its very experienced current SF and SF/SMU assigned personnel?
I am not talking about base pay either. I would like to see someone calculate the total compensation that a soldier of this caliber and experience gets- include jump pay, combat pay, any special pay for performing the SMU type operations (?), housing, reenlistment bonuses, any other bonuses that I don't know about, deployment pay (?)...
Obviously, I do not know the proper terminology for the types of pay for specific duties, training, and hardships- please forgive my ignorance.
Anyone care to give an account for a comparison to what these contractors are paying? Use someone like the example given by FILO. 20 yrs prior service, current SF soldier, SMU experience, who is coming up to retirement date or needs to be reenlisted by the US Army. I will "assume" that someone of this experience/training would be a MSG, so let's use that for the "base pay" part of the answer.
Anyone willing to give up the info? Without the true figures, it is hard to have a discussion on the disparity of pay between Gov. and private contracting companies like Blackwater.
