Well yeah, it's a government job so it's probably going to suck money-wise; the guy I know ended up losing money I believe because he had to buy a lot of snow clothes and paid travel expenses on his own account.

Moreover, I believe he had a really bad time there because the population in the base was mostly military and they treated him like shit in the most military bootcamp style with physical aggressions and such. So, he ended up not completing the whole term. (This probably will depend on the country of course).