Re-enlist for fast cash
A complete guide to the SRB listLatest SRB list is outBy Kent Miller - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Nov 16, 2007 14:14:51 EST
After bottoming out in March 2005, the list of Air Force career fields eligible for a Selective Re-enlistment Bonus continues to grow — albeit slowly.
But 2009 holds promise of a huge boost in the bonus cash available for airmen in undermanned career fields who choose to re-up a year from now.
The Air Force announced revisions in the SRB list Thursday.
Forty-three Air Force Specialty Codes now qualify for a bonus, six more than were eligible after the last revision, in June 2006. Eight AFSCs were added to the list, but two AFSCs that had previously qualified for a bonus no longer do.
Bonuses are authorized in 0.5 increments, or multiples, and in three re-enlistment zones — the years-of-service window, from 17 months to 14 years, in which selected airmen who re-enlist are eligible for cash.
After carefully reviewing all enlisted skills, the Air Force added new bonuses in 15 zones and increased bonuses in another 22, said John Park, chief of the Force Management Division at the Air Force personnel directorate in the Pentagon. Bonuses decreased in 18 zones and were eliminated in nine more. Overall, the bonuses remained the same in 75 zones.
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