Should I get my Congresswoman involved with my not having received my Reserve signing bonus?

I highly recommend you review your contract. There is nothing your congress person can do if you signed something that states you serve 8 years in the reserves or you must complete branch reclass before being elligible for the bonus. Retention/recruiters are known for not telling the whole truth - their job is to get bodies. It sounds like you have reached out to a number of people ( G1, G8, my unit's JAG, IG) who have already told you the same thing - there is nothing they can do to get you this money. Just like we cannot provide you additional information or a back door to get you the bonus.

requiters lie all the time. looks like you got the green weenie. as i did when I joined I wanted to get certified in mecanics was told sure no problem that MOS is 11-B I had no clue it was the INFANTRY. I tried to transfure to a MECH INFANTRY UNIT got all the way through it. only one to sign off on it was the BN. COMMANDER. he would not sign off told me he needed to keep his meal roster full. the kick in the balls to that was less than A year later they let me go to GERMANY on Reforger 1985 with the unit i was held back from. not allowed to be transfered to. & put in the MECHINCS SLOT I was to be in. that is what i did in my civilan job. when we returned back to my unit after REFORGER the MECH INFANTRY CAME TO ME ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO WORK FULL TIME IN THE MOTOR POOL another greenweenie kick in the balls. at this time I was short plus I kept A trump card when I joined no high School or GED I was told I had to get it or be discharged never got it. it hurt me some they wouldn't give me my E-5 rank they only gave me SP-4 my PLT LT pinned me CPL-E-4 hard stripes JR.NCO job of the E-5 without the paygrade. just another GREEN WEENIE KICK IN THE BALLS AGAIN. after that the new CO had me arested on the AWOL LIST I put A doctors note in the 1st SGT in box on his desk relieving me form duty the next green weenie kick in the balls.I wouldn't get in the AWOL team's JEEP my personal TRUCK had A base sticker on it. I followed them back to the ARMORY check the 1st SGT box there is the note I took it made A copy put it back in the box noone ever loocked at it. i went back home. after that I kicked them in the balls back. i took my gear & ID CARD flicked it at them said I quit the only thing they could do is take 2 paygrades away give me an honorable discharge as a PVT-2 with out any renlistment restrictions I tried to after 9/11 /2021 next monday I went ti sign on the dotted line again turned i failed the EKG & they said i was color blind. so now i serve as SGT AT ARMS 26th (YANKEE) INFANTRY DIVISION VETERANS ASSOCIATION BOSTON MA. CHAPTER I ALMOST FORGOT THE WORST WEENIE OF ALL MY GRAND MA DIED MY DAD WAS PULLING UP TO THE ARMORY THEY LET THE BUS PULL AWAY WITH ME ON IT THE REDCROSS CALLED THEM TOLD THEM MY DAD WAS ON HIS WAY TO BRING ME HOME I FOUND OUT THAT NITE ABOUT 2AM THE BUS LEFT @ 6am I DIDN"T GET A RIDE HOME UNTIL ABOUT 7AM THE NEXT MORNING from CAPE COD CAMP EDWARDS LESS THAN A ONE HOUR DRIVE THE ONLY THING I GOT FROM ANY OF THEM WAS SORRY TO INFORM ME THAT MY GRAND MA PAST FROM THE CHAPLIN THE ONLY ONES THAT MATTERED WAS FROM MY BUDDYS & 1st SGT he was my MILITARY DAD MY PLT SGT & MY PLT LT that pinned me CPL E-4 the only thing that sucked is they took my M-60 AWAY gave me my M16 A-1 back but as an JR NCO I GOT TO KEEP MY M1911 .45 side arm I had as A M-60 GUNNER we had to QUILFI WITH BOTH THE M-60 & M1911 .45 pistol

You'll need to have a contract that shows the $10K bonus and the terms of that bonus. That however can be forged in its entirety by retention. So on the other end of that you'll probably need a MilPer or recruiting memo for the period you signed to show the policy of said bonus (the authority authorizing the bonus).

If there is no authority authorizing the bonus then that's that. If there is no signature on a contract at the time of your commission or package that claims as such (using the authority memo/MilPer) then you are dead in the water, because you would have basically signed a contract without that as a condition.

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I hear your plight. I personally got said bonus for $10K for 92A. My two peer LT's at the time that literally commissioned in the same month into the same unit as me (we all were different PLs) as me DID NOT get that bonus.

My retention NCO set me up, and the administrative process I pushed my paperwork through once I was done with BOLC magically worked. I had two things in hand. My direct commission application with the $10K referenced with my signature on it, and the signature of a officer (I think it was a Major) that was part of that paper work. Then there was a MilPer at the time as the authority.

My peers did not have that paperwork in hand, but that said, we were all different commissioning sources to boot. I was Direct, one was ROTC, and the other was Green to Gold.

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Oh, forgot to mention you'll need proof of your commission, and proof you finished BOLC, and possible proof you are in a slot that the bonus requires (and not a generic 01A slot) usually a memo from your first line commander.