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Originally Posted by rc4x4nut
Yeah right now if I opted to re-up Im getting a 90k bonus. Do I take that or do I get the job that pays 90k a year? Its a tough choice especially with todays economy. I wonder how long the bonus will stay? With the economy being as it is and younger folks making a dash for the recruiters I dont think retaining people is going to be a problem even without the bonus.
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Most youngsters today have a hard time making any kind of commitment let alone joining the military, which by the way is a 4 year bang right out of the gate. Teenagers that have (lets say) a passive nature about them steer clear of any military affiliations, and the ones who have an aggressive nature will either have a criminal record or psych issues, which both will disqualify them. When I joined years ago most of the friends that I grew up with soon followed into one branch or another. Out of like a dozen kids only 3 of them actually made it through their first year, 2 died in the first year, and the one who did make it only stuck it out for 4 years and got out. A lot of people just cannot deal with Military life in general even if the money is a solid living.
I was a bootcamp DI for 5 1/2 years, and the atrition rate for the Navy was something like 25% to 35%(just for bootcamp. Special programs that rear the kind of bonuses that you mentioned have more like 80% to 90% loss rates in the first 1 to 2 years due to the high acidemic demands and stress levels. These are the things that no one tells you up front because they don't want to scare anyone away, but this is the reality of recruiting and trying to make (invisable) quotas. Yes that bonus money is there for the taking, but actually achieving the requirements to get it are very tough in deed and pretty much reserved for the top 5% of all military people.