{"id":147449,"date":"2023-09-18T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147449"},"modified":"2023-09-17T21:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T01:51:54","slug":"army-re-ups-exceeding-expectations-so-bonuses-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147449","title":{"rendered":"Army re-ups exceeding expectations (so bonuses suspended)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA while back we mentioned that the Army was falling short of enlistment expectations – again. At the same time,\u00a0 the Army’s spokesperson said re-enlistments were doing well. Friday, the Army announced it was suspending re-enlistment bonuses through the end of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n

A Sept. 12 internal Army Military Personnel Center message shared with Military.com detailed that the Selective Retention Bonus Program was shut down on “the effective date of this message.”<\/p>\n

This past April, the Army hit its retention goal for the fourth year in a row, Military.com previously reported. The active-duty force retained 55,000 soldiers who were otherwise scheduled to leave the service.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the Army retained 3,700 more soldiers compared to the previous fiscal year. Rather than put more money into an already stellar retention year, the Army decided to pause the program for the remainder of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Last year, the service ended up 15,000 new soldiers short of its goal of 60,000 recruits. The Army is doing a lot better this year, but is still expected to fall a little short of its more ambitious recruiting goal of 65,000 new soldiers this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a little curious – “fall a little short” – a couple of weeks ago that “little” was on the order of 20%. Sure like to see the actual numbers, not glittering generalities. I suspect “little” is more like about 10,000.<\/p>\n

But I will bet this’ll affect some re-ups schedules…bearing in mind “end of the fiscal year” is only two weeks from now, but the program has to be restarted and I can just bet that someone who was counting on a re-enlistment bonus is gonna get find their ETS is before the memo restarting the bonuses hits. There’s a reason they call it the Big Green Weenie sometimes.<\/p>\n

H\/t to Jeff LPH!<\/p>\n

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