Making tomorrows Military today: Army looks to raise bonuses to 40K

Army looks to raise bonuses to 40K

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WASHINGTON — The Army wants to double the top cash bonus for new recruits to $40,000 in an effort to stem a continued recruiting shortfall in the midst of the Iraq war.

As another incentive, the Army is proposing a pilot program to provide up to $50,000 in home mortgage help for recruits who sign up for eight years of active duty, Lt. Col. Thomas Collins said in an interview Thursday. Congress must approve both plans.

Alright. This will not help the fact that kids nowadays do not believe in giving back to your country. This will just get people into the seats without getting to the problem. There is no way to fix the problem in the short run, so, like always, if you throw money at the problem, the problem tends to go away.

How many recruits have mortgages when they come in? Are they going to take away BAH for those Soldiers? If they don't, then you have issues about Private Pile and Private Benjamin getting 2 different pays, which is why the Army did not want to give reparations to Reservists and National Guard soldiers.

Militantpundit posted @ 11:57 PM

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I have not seen anything that says he cannot do at 368 changeover overseas. I am not for sure however, due to the issues that always seem to come up overseas. Usually, the Commanding Officer has to sign a DD form 368 in order to release the applicant to another branch. He could get a copy of that, and ask the CO to sign it. Just google DD 368 and the first hit is a PDF form 368.

They ARE talking upping re-enlistment bonuses for certain MOS's. I have not seen any numbers on the street. There is a retention subcommittee for the Armed Forces Committee in Congress and they will announce it first followed VERY soon after the Co's will know. Retention is very good in teh Army from what I can see. The guys that get in are very happy doing what they are doing.

Tell your hubby that we here in recruiting are trying to send him the best people! Good luck to the both of you. I hope you get to see him soon.

Amy, we have had that information for a while. We have been able to get kid info for a long time. If the government did not force it, we came up with "interesting" ways of getting it. One recruiter was relieved in Hawaii for hacking a database for a large school and taking the list. That was a school house story. We can only hope to never become a school house story!

Posted by Militantpundit @ 11:27 PM, June 10, 2005