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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DankVectorz" data-source="post: 28117" data-attributes="member: 2122">The shifts we work (well, 90%of them) keep us out of rush hour traffic.  I live 23 miles east of work in Huntington and it takes me 20 min to get there for 7x or 3x shift.  Some guys live out in Port Jefferson and Patchogue or even farther east.  As a trainee, especially a single one, make friends with someone at the Academy and become room mates unless you want to live in someone’s basement.  I can’t speak for the training program now, as it was just completely revamped and the first class going through it just started a couple weeks ago.  It’s been a while but iirc my take home pay as D1 was something like $1500/bi weekly.  But my 500sqft 2 bedroom apartment was $2200/mo (split with roommate).  If you still have Post 9/11 GI Bill you can apply for that when you get here.  It will take about 2-3 months to get the first check but it will be backdated to your first day.  Think it pays around $2800 for BAH, but drops 20% every 6 months.Um, N90 isn’t a tower</blockquote>