What was the military like in the 1930s during the great depression?

Was it one of the more stable careers at the time? Did they continue to have benfits? What hardships did they suffer? Were they always paid? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just looking fir the answers. Couldn't find much on the internet other than the needs of the military came first during this time like civilians could not buy pantyhose with silk and cotton fabric was limited, things like that. Any help would be appreciated.|||You ask about how it was in the '30s and then talk about how it was in the 40's. In the 1930's, with the exception of the Navy, the United States had one of the smallest military forces in the world, the Greek army at that time was larger than ours, we had no Air Force to speak of and our armored corps was in it's infancy. The military was not seen as a career choice by many people, basically the only people that really considered it a career choice were those from military families.