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I pulled my first pay stub from the Marines (2001-2005). $350 bi-weekly after taxes. 4-years/4-promotions later, I was sitting around $650 bi-weekly when I left to head to college.

We're both trained for completely different purposes. Without a doubt, sending a CHP officer into Marine Corps boot camp would be quite the whirl wind for the guy/gal.

Not to mention that for all the "elite this" and "chosen that," infantry training is designed exactly for the average man.

True, though not sure about California, in my home state pretty much all state troopers are ex-military anyway so it doesn't matter.

Why would it not matter?

I don't understand why troopers being ex-military has any relevance to the issue.

If the already went through military bootcamp, CHP bootcamp would be a breeze.

The poster's point was that having a tough boot camp does not justify the highway police salaries, since marines do a similar camp and earn a lot less. Thus saying that CHP bootcamp is a breeze for ex-military does not make that argument not matter, it reinforces it.