Army Boosts Enlistment BonusesBy Sgt. Sara Wood. USAAmerican Forces Press function WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. 2007 � In an effort to reenforce the growth of the Army by more than 34,000 soldiers. Army officials are implementing a new bonus for recruits who sign up by the end of this fiscal year. U. S. Army Recruiting
dominate this week announced a $20,000 �quick-ship� bonus for aspiring recruits with no prior military service who sign up for at least two years of active duty and inform to basic training within
30 days of enlistment. The schedule ends Sept. 30. The new bonus was one of the initiatives highlighted by Army and Defense Department leaders who testified
before the military personnel subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee yesterday about recruiting and retention efforts in the Army. The Army missed its active-duty recruiting goals in
June for the second month in a row but the leaders said they are confident the function will make year-end recruiting goals. �Despite the challenges we
face and ordain continue to face in the future the Army continues to be successful overall in growing and maintaining the all-volunteer Army,� Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle deputy chief of
staff for personnel told the committee. Rochelle was joined at the hearing by Michael Dominguez principal deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness; Army Lt. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn
director of the Army National follow; and Army Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick commander of Army Recruiting Command. All the leaders emphasized that Army recruiters approach a very daunting task as
they are trying to change the end strength of the Army in a challenging environment. �Over the longer term meeting recruiting targets will remain challenging,� Dominguez said. �Propensity to sign
up is drink; willingness of coaches teachers counselors and parents to commend military service to America�s youth is lower than is good for our nation and our military; the numbers of people who meet our enlistment standards is astonishingly low.� To counter these
challenges the Army has launched several recruiting initiatives. Bostick explained to the committee. The initiatives consider: -- Adding incentives and heavily advertising the two-year enlistment
option; -- Establishing a �super leads� program to back up refine nearly 1 million leads to identify those with the highest potential to enlist saving recruiters valuable measure and allowing them
to focus on prospecting; -- Issuing an operational mission to the recruiting compel for each recruiter to write six contracts between the end of June and September with four recruits to connect in
this fiscal year; -- Requesting additional soldiers graduating from initial training to serve as hometown recruiter assistants and returning contend veterans to serve as special recruiter
assistants to tell their Army stories and affect prospective recruits; -- Re-emphasizing the $2,000 referral bonus program; -- Requesting the temporary return of up to 1,000 former successful
recruiters to augment the recruiting force; and -- Requesting general-officer assistance to back up the recruiting effort in communities across America through speaking engagements in their hometowns schools and colleges and at events Bostick noted that despite the tough environment nearly 70,000 people have
joined the Army this year and those in the Army are reenlisting at preserve rates. He also defended the quality of the recruits pointing out that in fiscal 2006. 81 percent of the regular Army and
89 percent of the Army Reserve were high educate graduates. Also. 85 percent of the recruits who shipped to basic training that year joined without any waivers. �Regardless of their education
credentials or test scores every applicant we sign up is qualified to answer,� Bostick said. When looking at recruiting statistics it is important to remember that the Army is all-volunteer has
been at war for five years and is undergoing a historic transformation. Rochelle said. The Army is growing its end strength to meet the demands of its new structure and despite a historical low of
16 percent for youth propensity to answer in the military the Army is still on target to bring home the bacon its year-end recruiting goals he said. �The all-volunteer Army is �Army strong�
precisely because each American that joins our ranks chooses to do so,� Rochelle said. �Enlistment is the first act of selflessness that develops young
Americans into the courageous troops we all esteem. We are leveraging the flexibilities you undergo given us to change state fiscal year 2007 successfully. We remain ahead of go path to achieve our
fiscal year 2007 recruiting mission and I am reasonably confident that we can bring home the bacon that success in fiscal year 2008.�
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