When I joined the USMC, way back when, they offered me five thousand dollars after I completed my MOS school. I turned the money down under the resolve that my honor and loyalty cannot be bought. I still joined, completed my school, served my tour.
I keep hearing these sixty thousand enlistment bonuses, or reenlistment bonuses. Is this true? Are our young being 'bought' into service? What type of person would this insentive attract? What does that say about their charater?
To this day, I still hold the resolve, my respect, loyalty and honor cannot be bought!
2007-09-25 21:50:28 · 10 answers · asked by 2012, Change it back!! 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Just as an after thought here, please do not harbor on the "They could die." factor. They do not offer these types of bonuses to Police or Firefighters.
2007-09-25 21:57:01 · update #1
Proper Wage: Why not simply increase base pay a little instead of this "You get sixty thousand dollars for enlisting!"?
Sorry Maxx, I don't see this bonus as a 'wage adjustment' in any way.
2007-09-25 22:00:13 · update #2
Gondien you are just too smart for the room my man. Unfortunately many folks take the deal because they are carrying too much debt. And that just ain't smart.
Not only that.....it is itself a form of entrapment. You allow yourself to be trapped.....what is it you become?
You are what makes this the greatest country in the world to live in. A man that values freedoom.
2007-09-25 22:06:28 · answer #1 · answered by Chaz 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you turned it down, even your own guys will think you're a fruitcake. I don't buy your crap, I mean, story. But cops ARE offered sign-up bonuses, so that argument doesn't hold, either.
If you were really in, you'd know that base pay is permanent, even if circumstances change. That's the reason for temporary bonuses, for only when they're needed for special situations. And way back, I was offered extra incentives for my enlistment during Vietnam, because that MOS was shorthanded.
Almost always there is a re-enlistment bonus to re-up. Again, if you were really in, 'way back', you'd know that, too. So go play junior Marine in someone else's sandbox.
2007-09-25 22:41:02 · answer #2 · answered by Marc X 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Service can be bought and that is true of any profession.
Loyalty and respect cannot be bought but nor should they be given blindly.
Honor is a personal value, which also cannot be bought - or sold, for that matter. It can, however, be lost.
As for what kind of person can be 'bought' into service ... every soldier is paid, so almost all of them can. It may not be a soldier's only reason to serve, but few, if any, would serve without financial compensation. You cannot honestly say that you did.
Governments often offer incentives to serve. This does not in any way degrade those that serve. Consider it recognition of the value that the people place upon its service men and women.
2007-09-25 22:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Lloyd B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's simply good business practice. They offered you money to stay in the service longer.
It costs a great deal of time money to train recruits in critical skills ranging from rocketry to infantry. Keeping soldiers that have these valuable skills in the service by offering a re-enlistment bonus, is cheaper that training new people.
2007-09-26 03:11:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The money given to new recruits has nothing to do with honor and loyalty. We are Americans and thus believe that capitalism is a good thing.
The American Marine/Soldier/Sailor is now getting paid the proper wage, that has nothing to do with honor.
2007-09-25 21:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think you are right. especially about the type of candidate this would incentivise. I was a Marine also and traditionally the Marines do offer re-enlistment bonuses based on MOS, but to my knowledge they aren't doing the big payday incentives for initial enlistment the Army does, and i think we get a better quality of recruit.
2007-09-26 03:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not?
Try and ask the Eunuch.
Even when the dead Mummy were ruling and leading and guiding with pots and pans still have the " Honour and loyalty"
all the way back to the graveyards too.
Luke 9.55
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
2007-09-25 22:14:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sir should be very proud of your self! It's nice to know people like you still exist. Liberal Democrats have literally destroyed values they don't know the word honor and never will . Thank you for serving are Country and you can go to sleep every night knowing you did the right thing. The answer above me GONE is a perfect example of this Liberal Cancer
2007-09-25 22:02:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Loyalty and service must not be bought but it must be inculcated to the people that service to the country is the only pride to join the military.
2007-09-25 21:56:13 · answer #9 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm.. well.
most of these people that the army is buying to die in this war to get the Bush's Oily, don't believe in the war. they must pay for the alliance. the ones who were down with the movement already joined the army for free.
much like buying a car... you wait til you get the best deal with the end of year sale, right?
well they waited til "the end of loyal to the cause" sale and simply cashed in.
welcome to America. land of the great hustle.
2007-09-25 21:58:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋