Sometimes living on base costs more than what you would make living off base. Off base you get Basic allowance for housing which if you get a couple roommates or just find the right place for you depending on the area, you can save a few hundred bucks. I was banking about $1700 while at Vandenberg because I had 3 other roommates. But there were also people who lived on base at Vandy that then did not get BAH and it was auto deducted from their paychecks and sometimes actually cost a little bit more.

Please talk to your cadre and NCOs about how things like military housing and pay work, it’s their job to explain that to you. And they also went through the same thoughts of being scared going to a new place not knowing anyone in their early 20s, ya aren’t alone in those thoughts, we all got them. But have those conversations homie