I am a 6 year out guy. Finishing up my first tour on a sub. Don't think I'll make it through EWS, but got LELT. Definitely get MTS (my replacement, the new LELT, got a job offer for 95K as an instructor but reenlisted because he was scared about job security, or at least that was the excuse he gave). MTS is big out there and so is EWS. I've determined that you will take a pay cut the first year or so as a 6YO guy, but with 3 years of prototype under your belt you will be fine. There was no way they would have given me the three year waiver to get off early to go to prototype, and raising the SRB was just not enough for me. So in October, when they raise SRB's again, I can deny them once more. You just can't place a price on happiness, you know?