[CaptainCrunch]

I've been out for a long time now. But to answer your questions. During my basic I went home at night, except when I spent the last 3 weeks in the field up in Wainwright. You get paid in the reserves, I don't know what the pay is anymore, In 2008 a reserve basic recruit made $83.00 a day, its probably increased a little.

Theres not a day that your not working a full day, we basically went 7 days a week because there's a lot to cram into basic training. An officer is $90 per day.

As far as what jobs you would be doing, it depends on the unit that you joined. when your talking about health fields what are you talking about? Because at that point you want to see if there's a services unit in your city. if you want infantry you join an infantry unit, armor, you join an armor unit and so on. You can for the most part pick your trade. Your best bet is to talk to a recruiting officer because the field that you get to take depends on if there's open slots or requirements.

And when you say super duper basic. Its not that simple. They cram a lot of stuff into your basic training and its easy to be left behind, and if your left behind they don't really give you much of a chance to catch up.

When you consider that you have to learn drill, field craft, weapons use and deployment, navigation, field hygiene and care, communications, small group tactics, ambush techniques, camouflage and more, you don't have much down time, and you have a lot of study time when your not on duty.

Plus all that time on uniforms, it used to take me 2 hours a night to get my uniform up to standard. I was so relieved when we went into the field and wear cammo.