National Guard Sergeant Earns $100,000 Recruiting

[RamboLiberal]

One of those is Sgt. Dana Kline, a former Marine who is now in the Georgia Army Guard and earlier this year had earned nearly $100,000 in bonuses as a recruiting assistant.

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The U.S. Army is turning to the National Guard for help recruiting would-be soldiers in hometowns across America.

Army leaders, struggling to meet recruitment goals in the midst of a long and unpopular war in Iraq, are quietly working out final details of a program that would give bonuses of $2,000 per recruit to any National Guard soldier who brings somebody into the active duty Army.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-08-28-army-recruiting_N.htm

To me this smacks of blood money! Wonder if the "recruiters" will feel any guilt if one of those they get to sign up is killed or maimed?

[Akoto]

1. Wonder how many kids he lied to for that profit.

Hope the dollars were worth it to him.

[Squatch]

3. Not that tired fucking bullshit again

I am so fucking tired of this meme.

This is a damned good program that leverages experienced and in-the-force soldiers to recruit people into an HONORABLE profession. GRAP energizes soldiers to get out into their communities and spread the word on service in the National Guard.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Read the story - new program wants recruits to shift to Active Army

From OP story:

Under the new plan, a recruit would join the Guard but indicate that they are intending to shift to active duty. After they finish basic training they would either sign up for 30, 36 or 48 months in the active Army, or change their mind and simply stay in the Guard.

The Army secretary said the impact of the new Guard program would be felt next year when Guard soldiers will "become an important part of the active recruiting force."

The secretary says "they would recruit soldiers into the active component," adding that the recruits would then have continuing obligations in the reserves.

The Army initially expects to gain about 1,600 recruits next year through what they're calling the "Active First" program, according to Lt. Col. Ron Walls, chief of enlisted recruiting and retention for the Army National Guard.

IMO they are throwing increasing sums of $$$$$$$'s to avoid having to go to a draft!

[Squatch]

5. Same deal, different pot of money.

I was active duty for six years and NG for the past four. The distinction between those two organizations is disappearing, as it rightly should.

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[fed-up]

6. what the hell is honorable about $1-2 Trillion War, 1 Million Iraqis and 4K of our military dead? nt

[stirlingsliver]

2. Blood Money Is Right!

This is nothing more than bllod money.

Paying National Guard soldiers to entice (lie to) unsuspecting young men and women in order to get them to "volunteer" to be cannon fodder for Bush and his thugs.