How much money do you spend while on active duty?

Yeah, overseas housing will vary by location. For example when I was based in Korea everyone lived on base with few exceptions. As a JO I had my own room but shared a kitchen and shower with another JO. Air Force officers in the same housing got $200/month “substandard housing allowance”. 1654791681094.png
Other locations, most JOs live off base. Still others it’s mixed and you have a choice.
 
Saving money all depends on you. As an officer you can live in a bachelors officers quarters, if available. Otherwise you get paid a modest housing allowance to find your own place. Since officers get paid basic allowance for subsistence, if you eat in the messhall, you pay for your meals the cost of meals 3x a day X 30 days is far more than your BAS. BAS does not come close to actual costs to feed yourself.
 
Most single JOs I know live off base with roommates and save the difference between the BAH rate and their share of the rent. This can be very economical especially with multiple roommates.
 
Overseas as a single 2ndLt & 1stLt, I lived in the BOQ with about a dozen other company grade officers. We had a blast; it was like adapting "Friends" to a military base focused sitcom. Of course, this was in the lull between the Gulf Wars and well before 9/11 happened & GWOT began - a true peacetime Marine Corps.

Overseas OPTEMPO will often dictate the practicality for a single officer living on base or off base. I was overseas and assigned to an FMF unit (I was deployable 24/7 as opposed to some of my peers who were assigned to MCAS entities that were non-deployable).
 
For the OP.
Needs vs wants define everything.
You NEED to drink water. You WANT to drink fancy coffee, adult beverages, power drinks, etc.
You NEED a roof over your head. You WANT an apartment with no roommates and luxury amenities.
You NEED nutritious food. You WANT your favorite take-out and don’t want to shop and cook.

Apply to car, travel, hobbies, digital toys, sports equipment, civilian clothing, household goods, etc. There is a sliding scale there you will have to figure out, between living spartanly and living extra-large.

Basics:
- Build a budget showing inflows and need-based outflows, as well as want-based. Mint is a good app. Monitor yourself. If you can’t afford a want, don’t do it. Devise a strategy and save for it.
- Take care of needs first. Always. A need is also putting money away in IRA and then TSP (govt/military version of 401k) once you are commissioned, on a regular basis.
- Emergency fund. Accumulate a few thousand dollars in an emergency fund in a savings account. Emergencies are not spontaneous weekends away with a significant other. You are driving cross-country to next duty station, go through a construction zone and destroy 2 tires. You put them on your credit card, and draw from emergency fund to fully pay off a unbudgeted expense that month. Top off emergency fund. This fund will get larger over the years - your spouse might lose a civilian job, and you need that income to support your monthly budget - but you’re fine, because you have 6 months’ of spouse salary stashed in the emergency bucket.
- Invest in IRA, probably Roth, to its annual limit. This is a need. This is part of the bucket you are building for 40+ years down the road, when salary spigots turn off and you are living on what you accumulated for another 20-30 years. The earlier you start, the more impact the power of compounding interest will have.
- Invest in TSP as soon as you are eligible, usually a commissioning. There are Roth accounts available.
- Spend less than you make. Manage credit wisely. It it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Listen to your gut.
 
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