Are we Bribing Soldiers with $10,000  re-enlistment bonus just to get them to stay in Iraq for another year?
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yes we are ive been already   and so has my brother i agree
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This is in response to Anne Kat and Sherri.\nI don't know what kind of service the Army is...but your responses are ignorant and rude....All three of you women.  \n\nThe first comment, "If YOUR Soldier is wanting to Come home for Christmas,the ARMY will pay HIS Way,as long as it is LEGIT,any Soldier can fly Home from Just about anywhere,if they GO through the Chain of Command to do so!\nNO, he can Not JUST up and come home because YOU want him too! That would be Very Selfish on HIS part as well as YOURS.\nThe Soldier MUST Put in for LEAVE,Just like all the other Soldiers,ahead of the Scheduled time,so that EVERYONE will be given"\nNumber One...the army doesn't PAY for you to come home to see you family.  Even if it is legit...i dont know where you ever thought that!  He has requested leave for the past 3 years and has been denied each and every time.  Either because he JUST got back from iraq, or he was in training or he was in korea.  IT IS NOT SELFISH when you haven't seen a family member in  5 years and who has been to war....HE is a HERO  HE IS A SON AND A BROTHER AND FATHER.\n\nNumber 2..\n\n"I would donate $1.00 to bring a soldier home but here is what i don't understand. Being that the soldier is technically working for the "Government" then his expense's should be taken care of. He also needs to put in a request for leave. I honestly don't think that $1800 is enough money to fly a soldier home. In my opinion there are alot of scams out here in cyberspace collecting money from innocent trusting people and I think this is another scam. Correct me if i am wrong but I just want to be honest!"\n\nThe Goverment does not pay for you to see your family and child.    I don't know of one Goverment job that does pay for you to go home for the holidays.  You want to talk about a scam lady?  whatever govt. postion is paying for their employees to go home and see their family......THAT  is a scam.   \n\nAnd furthermore...everyone in my family has served in some way or another...for many many years.....I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO REQUEST LEAVE....\nPlease do not treat us like we are stupid and don't know the correct way to take leave in the military.\n\n\nAnd Number 3...\n"No, I would not. Soldiers are where they are supposed to be. They have a mission whether we agree or not. The military is not Club Med and most people forget that. Soldiers do their job and they shouldn't complain since no one put a gun to their heads to be in the military. I am retired military and if my country sent me to do a job, well I'll go and do my best."\n\nAnd we Thank Your for your service.  The military is not Club Med...NO ONE EVER SAID IT WAS.  These soldier do their job every day they are over there!!  THEY MUST GIVE 110% OR THEY CAN DIE....If YOU Sir are retired military....then im sure you took leave and saw your family at least once in your 20+ years of service.  I find hard to believe you would never take leave....did you serve in Vietnam?  When your 1st or 2nd or 3rd tour was over....im sure you were able to take leave and see your family.  AND NO ONE EVER SAID HE WAS NOT GIVING HIS BEST....\n\nMY BROTHER LOST HIS MARRIAGE, SON, AND SOUL WHEN HE LEFT FOR THE ARMY AND TO GO TO IRAQ.....\n\nHE HAS GIVEN HIS 110% FOR YEARS.....DON'T INUSULT HIM OR DISRESPECT WHAT HIM AND OTHER SOLDIERS IN THE EXACT SAME POSTION ARE GOING THROUGH.\n\n\nThank you all for you time
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Once you have entered into your third year of a four year scholarship, you have entered into a legally binding commitment to a number of years service, I do not know specifically what. However, at this point if you leave the program you will be required to fulfill your requirement as an enlisted person.\n\nThis is not a question of paying back the money.
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very often unless your US military, that won't happen.\nhowever, you can get finanical assistance, through a payment plan.  Best wishes.
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Okay once you are in country you will no longer pay federal taxes on your pay.  As long as you are in the country at least one day of any given month, you will receive the non taxable status.  The second increase you will see is hazardous duty pay which is $250 a month.  So if you are an e-4 with over 3 years, you could bring home about $1800-1900 per month.  If you are there a year and you only spend $400 per month, you could save $18,000.  Also another way guys come home alot of money is reenlisting while over there.  If you sign you reenlistment while over there, it will not be taxed either.  \nHope this helps!!
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I was in the Army for nine years.  Usually what happens is you get a bulk of it up front and then the rest every year on the month that your husband enlisted.  So if he went in in September then every year he will get another lump sum, and then the September after that until it is paid.
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There was a question in PA to give $20 million to Gulf War veterans bonus money (not this war-the original) for their time served. I voted yes.
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No.  We tried the same thing.  But as a military dependent you do qualify for grants and scholarships.  Good luck.\n\nGOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
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Pancha,\n\nI have never agreed with a word you have said on this website, but I can answer this question for you. Don't listen that ***** enlightenment. That is the dumbest crock of sh*t I have ever heard. MOST vets will tell you that there time in the military was extremely rewarding and taught them many life skills. Everything I have in this world, I owe to the skills the Army taught me. The friends you make will be lifelong, and the bond you share will be unparalleled - especially if you deploy to Iraq with them.\n\nWe in the National Guard have a saying: If you haven't been to Iraq yet, you will be going soon. The figure is close to 75% of all National Guard members nationwide have been to Iraq. I am getting ready to go again in October.\n\nService in Iraq is not ANYTHING like the liberal media would have you believe. It is statistically the safest war the United States has ever deployed anyone to. With over 500,000 military members having gone and around 2400 have died, that means you have a 99.9942% chance of making it back to the United States alive. Pretty damn good odds in this soldiers book.\n\nWe are doing a lot of good things over there that you NEVER hear about.\n\n* The media would have you believe that everyday Iraqis don't want us there. Nothing could be further from the truth. They want us to finish the job and leave when it is done - not sooner.\n* The media would have you believe that Iraq is close to civil war. Again, this is untrue. The violence is merely painted in such a way as to give that illusion. Most Iraqis want peace and the opportunity to succeed - NOT civil war.\n* The media would have you believe there is a deadly "insurgency" in Iraq. By definition, an insurgency is filled with citizens of an occupied nation. Iraq is not occupied, and the "insurgents" are all from other countries. My unit was responsible for transporting prisoners last year and 95% of all detainees captured were from Saudi Arabia or Jordan or Syria or Egypt or Yemen or a host of other countries. Most speak English very well (a tip off right there that they are not Iraqi) and will tell you that most of the "insurgents" are foreign.\n\nDuty in Iraq is not bad, and most find it very rewarding. Many of the Guardsmen from my unit who just returned at the beginning of this year have volunteered to go back in October.\n\nHow soon after your Basic Combat Training (BCT or just Basic) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) might you go? Depends on your unit. If they have not gone to Iraq or not gone in a while, they may be going soon. It is also possible you could get assigned to go with another unit if they need your Military Occupational Specialty (MOS - your job). This is the absolute WORST scenario. You would rather go with people you know, people you trust with your life. So, I guess the answer is you might get tapped to go just weeks after you graduate Basic and AIT or you might never go.\n\nEither way, good luck.\n\nm1a1mikegolf - Actually, you are incorrect. EVERY enlistment is for eight years. If Pancha signs for three years, five years will be done in the IRR (Individual Ready Reserve). This means that while she is not actively drilling with the National Guard, she is still subject to recall. But, yes, she can do a three year enlistment and then leave the Guard.
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The rank is not ceremonial but is only given in times of war.  There is no pay raise for the rank O-10 is the highest you can get paid and thats not too bad $14158.30 per month oh yeah and because Generals cut their own orders it will probably be tax free.  Thats 170,000 per year not bad huh
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it would be similar to the army coming in and soliciting theircrap so the answer is no
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Payments to ghost employees. Contractors overcharging by hundreds of millions of dollars on no-bid contracts. And billions in reconstruction money gone missing. The list of reasons for an Independent War Profiteering Commission just keeps on growing.\n\nThe Pentagon's Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) disputed $263 million in charges from Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root for its $2.41 billion no-bid contract. Normally, the Army withholds between 55 to 75 percent of the monies flagged by the auditors.\n\nSo what did the Army do in this case? It withheld 3.8 percent of the payments. Yes, you read that correctly, 3.8 percent – meaning it paid all but $10 million of the charges in question despite the alleged corruption. This just Halliburton, so many others are making huge profits of this war! Makes you wonder??   \nWorld > Terrorism & Security\nposted January 10, 2006 at 11:00 a.m.\n\nReport: Iraq war costs could top $2 trillion\nNew study takes into account long-term costs of healthcare for wounded soldiers.\nBy Tom Regan | csmonitor.com\nA new study by Columbia University economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes concludes that the total costs of the Iraq war could top the $2 trillion mark. Reuters reports this total, which is far above the US administration's prewar projections, takes into account the long term healthcare costs for the 16,000 US soldiers injured in Iraq so far.\n\n    "Even taking a conservative approach, we have been surprised at how large they are," the study said, referring to total war costs. "We can state, with some degree of confidence, that they exceed a trillion dollars."\n\nThe higher $2 trillion amount takes a 'moderate' approach. Both figures are based on the projection that US troops will remain in Iraq until 2010, with steadily decreasing numbers each year. The economists also used government data from past wars, and included such costs as the rise in the price of oil, a larger US deficit and greater global insecurity caused by the war, the loss to the economy from injured veterans who cannot contribute as productively as they would have done if not injured, and the increased costs of recruiting to replenish a military drained by repeated tours of duty in Iraq. These are items which are almost never included by the US government when determining the cost of the war.\n \n  \n   \n\n   \n  \n \n\nBefore the war started, Mitch Daniels, then the White House budget director, had said the war would be an "affordable endeavor" and rejected an estimate by the chief White House economic adviser that the war would cost between $100 billion and $200 billion as "very, very high." What a joke, if the American public was told this at the begining what would they have done? It sounds like they knew and covered it up as always!!!
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Join the Army, get the $40,000 enlistment bonus and the matching thrift savings plan, put all of the bonus in (tax deffered) and the Army will turn it to $80,000. You will then earn interest. You can leave 6 years later with over $250,000 if you invest a good portion of your salary, too (10-15%).
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you  don't, sorry. You could always join the army & have Uncle Sam pay for it, but then again you might get killed over in Iraq
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The money should show up 60-90 days after re-enlistment.\n\nCheck with finance to verify.
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Looks like another pyramid scheme or financial scam is making its way around the internet again.\n\nYOU have NOTHING -- only the living veteran has any connection to ANY benefits he or she may have EARNED because of their Military Service.
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no dont desert..it WILL ruin your life.  If you reenlisted 5 years ago you shouldnt have much left on your current contract...just stick it out and then ETS.