An 18-year-old soldier who voluntarily enlists in Germany to supplement the Bundeswehr’s staff as planned is paid 2,320.86 euros net monthly. The Belgian 17-year-olds who receive a letter in the mail these days to voluntarily enlist in the Belgian army are being lured with a salary of at least 2,000 euros net. Do they actually get that? And do our soldiers earn enough? HLN delved into the scales and the tangle of bonuses at Defense: this is how salaries in the army really work.

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