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$40,000. sign-on bonus for US Army Infantry recruits |
2019-07-05 |
[Task & Purpose] FORT KNOX, Kentucky -- U.S. Army recruiters are offering bonuses worth up to $40,000 to new recruits who sign up for the infantry by Sept. 30 as part of an effort to reverse a shortage of grunts for fiscal 2019. The drastic increase in bonus amounts for recruits in 11X, the infantry military occupational specialty, went into effect in mid-May, according to U.S. Army Recruiting Command officials, who said that the service still needs to fill about 3,300 infantry training seats by Sept. 30. "We saw this coming in May; we immediately went to the senior leadership and said, 'look, we need to max out the bonuses for 11Xs,'" Maj. Gen. Frank Muth, commander of Army Recruiting Command, told Military.com Tuesday. "If you sign up to be 11X and you sign a six-year commitment -- $40,000." Before May, the maximum bonus amount for infantry recruits was $15,000 for a six-year commitment. Last summer, the Army ran a pilot at Fort Benning, Georgia that resulted in the service extending infantry one station unit training (OSUT) from 14 weeks to 22 weeks. The extended infantry training is designed to give soldiers more time to practice key infantry skills such as land navigation, marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat, fire and maneuver and first aid training. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#9 Someone ran the numbers. Bonuses are good short term means to avoid long term retirement payouts figured on base salaries. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-05 21:01 |
#8 I would almost pay them $40k to take me back. Tried it. If I was a CT surgeon, maybe. Old 'austere environment' IT guy, no thanks. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-05 16:20 |
#7 The VA? Posted by: gorb https://www.va.gov/ Department of veteran's affairs. And may the gods help you if you need to go to a VA hospital. AOC spouted that it was a wonderful example of socialist medicine. Well, it is an example of it. Just how fucking bad and incompetent it can be. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2019-07-05 16:04 |
#6 Chris ain’t the parking awesome off Clairmont? |
Posted by: Beavis 2019-07-05 14:54 |
#5 you got that right darth, i wasn't in the military but my wife was and is now dealing with the VA in Atlanta. It is one hell after another. |
Posted by: chris 2019-07-05 14:48 |
#4 The VA? |
Posted by: gorb 2019-07-05 14:14 |
#3 I would almost pay them $40k to take me back. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-05 13:28 |
#2 They don't. The bonuses are a nice way to keep an MOS filled that has a shortage. You pay it back later in dealing with the goddamn VA. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2019-07-05 13:28 |
#1 how long before they want you too pay it back though? |
Posted by: chris 2019-07-05 13:24 |