Marines can get both extra pay, bonus to re-enlist

[babylonsister]

Marines can get both extra pay, bonus
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, October 4, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Normally, Marines can get money to either re-enlist or extend their time in the Corps to deploy.

Now they can get both.

The Corps has announced that Marines can receive extra pay to extend for an upcoming deployment, go to the Central Command area of responsibility, and then re-enlist, collecting a re-enlistment bonus on top.

The move is one of the changes in the fiscal 2008 Combat Extension Program, which pays enlisted Marines to extend their time in the Corps in order to deploy downrange.

Enlisted Marines can receive $3,000 to extend for six months or $6,000 to extend for 12 months under the program.

Since the program’s inception in May, more than 1,300 Marines have taken the incentive, said Capt. Phillip Bonincontri, Marine Corps compensation chief.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. Blackwater pays a whole lot more than that. $3K extra to go to Iraq? nt

[Just-plain-Kathy]

2. I spoke to a young vet from the Iraq war.

This conversation was held in July of ‘06, so I‘m paraphrasing...

This young man was distraught. He told me how the military promised him money for college....He told me how he -along with some other soldiers were brought into a room and told by an officer that they shouldn’t count on the promised money for college, then the soldiers were told they could leave Iraq if they did it quietly. ...The guy was (I can’t say happy because there was nothing happy about this boy)...he was relieved that he was out of Iraq.