Navy Offers $25,000 to All Recruits to Ship Out Quickly

[Sherman A1]

The Navy announced Thursday that it is offering a $25,000 signing bonus to recruits for any rate as long as they are willing to ship off to boot camp before summer.

The sea service, in a press release, said the bonus applies to "anyone who enlists Active Duty" and is willing to start boot camp between April and June of this year.

"The Navy is the only U.S. military branch currently offering this high of an enlistment bonus for any new enlistee," the service boasted.

The press release adds that the bonus will stack with other recruitment incentives that target specific specialties. As a result, "the enlistment bonus could be as high as $50,000," the service said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/04/08/navy-offers-25000-all-recruits-ship-out-quickly.html

[Native]

1. Shit be getting real.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Please tell me that the Navy has a new screening process that includes removing the

racist MAGAs.

That is just not fair to put minority recruits in that toxic environment. Why do you leave it to us to "train" these kind of people, when we're struggling to make it through hoops that already benefit their kind?

[erronis]

8. Very good point. Life in close quarters with racists will be another type of hell.

[drmeow]

14. Good point

OTOH - if it puts them on the front line and removes them from the gene pool, I'd consider that a win.

I've found that a number of really racist people are perfectly fine with the black guy who went through basic training with him. I knew someone who I'd be willing to bet was a total MAGAt now but when I knew him was best buds with the black woman who went through police training with him.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. The OTOH Placebo.

Is it possible for a racist and a member of a minority group to get along? Sure. The deciding incentive was a paycheck and HR watching over to make sure that things didn't get out of hand.

That actually was working before the shock talk media and Trump encouraged racists to come out and overtly show their stripes.

So, today there is a total culture of racism supported by their churches and community and some of it is legally actionable. It is just going to take a wise and astute Civil rights group actively working its way across the country. And I would make sure that among them are lawyers who are wizards at homeowner rights.

[Pepsidog]

3. I guess they expect to use them sooner rather than later. I suspect rapid rise of the Chinese navy

maybe behind this recruitment drive. Who else can challenge us on the seas.

[wnylib]

9. The Black Sea and Crimea come to mind.

But China is more likely because of our policy on Ukraine.

[mysteryowl]

4. Tough job

Personally, I could not live in a submarine.
The big ships too are not ocean liners, they are dull gray cramped quarters.

The bonus incentive sounds right.

[dameatball]

5. Holy crap. All I ever got was a ham sandwich, an apple and a 4 hour bus ride.

[KS Toronado]

6. You're lucky

All I got was the bus ride.

[SergeStorms]

7. Well DUers, I'm off to war!

Its been fun, but for 50k I gotta' do what I gotta' do. I'll check back in after boot camp.

[IronLionZion]

10. Is the US about to enter a naval war somewhere?

[nitpicker]

11. I think the idea is level-loading

Not just RTC, but the follow-on schools as well.

Back in the day, if someone shipped during summer surge and got out of step at RTC (physical improvement, etc), then a seat got missed at training and some people languished for close on a year awaiting the next seat.

((I think there is an implicit bias, as many south/western high schools graduate students in May while in my area it's not until mid-June.))

[nitpicker]

12. They DO have to fill new construction vessels

With sailors to do the grunt work.

For example, CVN 78 Ford is FINALLY preparing for deployment...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a39664440/uss-gerald-r-ford-is-finally-prepared-for-combat/

[Angleae]

13. The generally fill those slots with sailors from decommissioned vessels.

They wish to decommission 24 ships over the next year.