Army Outspends Corps to Keep Captains

[unhappycamper]

Army Outspends Corps to Keep Captains
January 21, 2009
Military.com|by Bryan Mitchell

Bonuses that offer more money and more choices equate to greater retention - even when the incentives are tied to a longer obligation.

That's the lesson taken from the results of vastly different captain retention programs offered by the Army and Marine Corps.

The Army, which offered a bonus of up to $35,000 or a host of career choices for captains to remain in the service for three additional years, saw roughly 70 percent of eligible officers accept the deal.

The Marine Corps, which offered captains $4,000 for an additional year of service, had less than 50 percent of eligible officers accept.

All told, approximately 16,000 Army officers signed up for the retention program out of a possible 23,000, while 3,045 Marine captains re-upped for another year out of 7,000 eligible.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/army-outspends-corps-to-keep-captains.html?col=1186032369115

[Historic NY]

1. Have a friend struggling with that now he wants to take a few...

civil service test for a local job...they keep pushing back with money offers. He has been deployed several times.

[Crowman1979]

2. I think a lot of USMC grunts want the option of going to either a MSSG or a MAW.

Because there is a lack of promotion in the 0300 related MOSs or are just tired of the deployments.