BV. If I may say, some good posts earlier about specialist pay.
Unfortunately, Military employment terms are soulless, and that extends to your employment at minimum cost, as much as your total expendability as circumstances dictate!
I never found a branch that completely avoided the expendability bit but, the minimum cost thing is only really overcome by those joining within powerful cabales, such as Lawyers, Doctors, Dentists and Religious leaders! Cheers
OAP