Marines Using Work-Arounds to Fund Duty Station Moves, Bonuses amid Congress' Stopgap Funding

Marine Corps leaders said they have cleared backlogs of delayed duty station moves and are working to widdle down delayed bonus payouts they said were caused by Capitol Hill's late budgets. In December, Military.com reported that nearly 1,000 Marines were at risk of losing out on bonuses the service had promised them upon reenlistment, and roughly 3,000 Marines could not move on time to their next installation because the Corps had to rely on funding from the previous year's budget cycle, due to a stopgap solution from Congress known as a continuing resolution, or CR.