AF cutting back re-enlistment bonuses

AF cutting back re-enlistment bonuses

(EXCERPT) , By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes European edition,
Friday, April 2, 2004

Click here for the Selective Re-enlistment Bonus list.

WASHINGTON — With retention so high that the Air Force is now
over-strength, service officials are eliminating Selective
Reenlistment Bonuses for three-fourths of currently eligible jobs.

The 2004 SRB list released by the Air Force this week has 42
specialties eligible for extra cash. The 2003 list, by contrast,
offered bonuses in 146 specialties.

But if they act fast, airmen who were counting on bonuses can still
get them, even if their bonus is reduced or specialty eliminated in
the new list.

That’s because although any new or expanded bonuses on the 2004 SRB
list became effective March 30; the cuts and reductions don’t take
effect until April 30.

“So anyone [whose specialty was reduced or removed h...

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