Posted on Feb 19, 2017
The Army is offering two-year contracts and cash bonuses to grow the Army
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What are your thoughts on this? Does the 2 year enlistment enough to earn their keep?
The Army is offering two-year contracts and cash bonuses to grow the Army
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Posted 8 y ago
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I passed up a 12,000 dollar re-enlistment bonus and E-6 to leave the Army National Guard, and enlist in the Air Guard with no bonus, and no chance of making E-6 for a few years. Why? Because the Air Guard would send me to EOD school. If the Army wants to keep people they could focus on listening to what their soldiers are telling them. Bonuses are a complete waste of money. Yes everybody loves them, but the guys who take them, would almost always re-enlist anyhow, and the guys that don't, don't! When I did ETS counselings, I'd hear "I'll re-up for deployment," "I'll re-up for Air Borne," "I'll re-up for Sapper." The money was never there for that. Soldiers can't be expected to put the effort in with NO REWARD, year after year. We often lost our best soldiers because we weren't offering them enough, and that enough WAS NOT about money, or benefits, it was about career reward. I know my post is about the reserve component, but I can't imagine that it doesn't have some reflection on AD as well.
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Sgt Diane Jankowski
I was offered $30,000. I turned it down because it was 1 year unaccompanied, I had just gotten married. And more importantly they were insistent that I would have to get the anthrax shot. That inoculation was messing up women's health, so I said um no thanks to that.
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Two year enlistments are such a waste. I don't think the Army gets a good ROI. 3-4 years maybe.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
Agree on that SSgt ! What can a recruit offer the military in two years? Like s'body previously stated, basic and AIT eats up quite a bit of that, there is still OJT training.. the AIT covers the basics
Even if it does cover more than what is covered in basic. Proper Trainiing and experience within within the unit count when it's done
By the numbers(some shortcuts can get one killed or maimed). I'm
AF and went through tech school
at Fort Lee with the Army.. we had some good instructors there.. why'd I say some? After hours I studied
My notes and compared with my books and I noticed some careless
Mistakes, the next day I approached an instructor about a particular practice after the session was done and we were alone(admonish privately, praise in public). I wasn't actually admonishing, I was questioning why
The extinguisher was not in proper reach.. he said "cause I know what I'm doing, now get back with the group, Airman!" It turned out there was a MSG off to side but within earshot of the SSG and myself.. as I was heading away I heard some commotion back where I just left.. I looked back and seen that MSG lighting that SSG up... I thought it better I keep on wslking,
That was their private convolt now..
I didn't get far.. That MSG called me to get back and I did.. "The SSG
owes you an apology A1C Herrst, will you accept if he offers it?" "Yes Of course, MSG_______. ". So the SSG. apologized for being rough with me about the sitrep I questioned him about. I thought
We were going to keep it between us.. The next day in the Classroom,
the SSG explained the sitrep and how I'd confronted him after the group was dismissed and that he was rude to me because I questioned the distance of the fire extinguisher from the teaching
Situation.. So he posed the question again and s'body (one of
The Army students ) answered .
That is correct Specialist, 2 feet
Thank you.. So I believe he put himself back in good stead .. was he really out of it? I don't think so, maybe for a short wee bit, he may of had s'thing on his mind that was troubling him and overcame his judgement..
Even if it does cover more than what is covered in basic. Proper Trainiing and experience within within the unit count when it's done
By the numbers(some shortcuts can get one killed or maimed). I'm
AF and went through tech school
at Fort Lee with the Army.. we had some good instructors there.. why'd I say some? After hours I studied
My notes and compared with my books and I noticed some careless
Mistakes, the next day I approached an instructor about a particular practice after the session was done and we were alone(admonish privately, praise in public). I wasn't actually admonishing, I was questioning why
The extinguisher was not in proper reach.. he said "cause I know what I'm doing, now get back with the group, Airman!" It turned out there was a MSG off to side but within earshot of the SSG and myself.. as I was heading away I heard some commotion back where I just left.. I looked back and seen that MSG lighting that SSG up... I thought it better I keep on wslking,
That was their private convolt now..
I didn't get far.. That MSG called me to get back and I did.. "The SSG
owes you an apology A1C Herrst, will you accept if he offers it?" "Yes Of course, MSG_______. ". So the SSG. apologized for being rough with me about the sitrep I questioned him about. I thought
We were going to keep it between us.. The next day in the Classroom,
the SSG explained the sitrep and how I'd confronted him after the group was dismissed and that he was rude to me because I questioned the distance of the fire extinguisher from the teaching
Situation.. So he posed the question again and s'body (one of
The Army students ) answered .
That is correct Specialist, 2 feet
Thank you.. So I believe he put himself back in good stead .. was he really out of it? I don't think so, maybe for a short wee bit, he may of had s'thing on his mind that was troubling him and overcame his judgement..
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Way back when ('70), I enlisted in the AF
and didn't need a bonus waved in my face
To do so.. Prob'ly because my incentive was to be allowed to be able to serve this Great country of ours on a equal footing
with my comrades of all races and creeds.
and didn't need a bonus waved in my face
To do so.. Prob'ly because my incentive was to be allowed to be able to serve this Great country of ours on a equal footing
with my comrades of all races and creeds.
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