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$100,000 to Re-Enlist?
Chief Electrician's Mate Robert Cruanes, reactor control division leading chief petty officer stationed aboard USS Bremerton (SSN 698), is slated to receive $100,000 by staying Navy as part of the Enlisted Supervisor Retention Pay program. According to the Navy Personnel...

Virtual Reality Parachuting
When you are plunging toward earth at speeds as fast as 20 feet per second there is not a lot of time to think about your next course of action. Air Force aircrew members can now practice emergency bailout procedures...

Army Announces Contest to Name Book of the Future
The Army is holding a competition to see who can come up with the best title for a book about the future Army that will be published in June. The book-naming contest is open to everyone, civilian or military, including...

Don't Be Seen
When on the front lines with the infantry, there are two kinds of people – the quick and the dead. But for the Army's infantry scouts, it’s a different story. The motto is "Don't be seen."...

Army Guard & Reserve to "Rebalance"
1.2 million -- or 46 percent of the total military force -- are Guard or Reserve. Today, 178,000 are serving in some capacity in the global war on terror. But while the number is large, it represents only 35 percent...

Predator Fleet to Expand
Air Force officials plan to expand the current Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle fleet to as many as 15 squadrons. This increase, announced March 18, is in response to the escalating demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability in the war...

Corps Suffers 29 Percent Spike in Suicides
The Marine Corps has endured a 29 percent increase in suicides through the last year, reaching the highest amount in more than a decade. In 2004 alone, 31 Marines committed suicide compared to 24 in 2003. All of the suicides...

U.S. Military Question of the Week
Jesse asks, "If one is in the National Guard, how hard is it to move from one state to another?"...

Army Recruiting Crisis?
Despite headlines to the contrary, there’s no crisis in the military’s recruiting efforts, according to Army recruiting officials. Alarm bells sounded after the Army missed its recruiting goal for February by 1,900 people, but officials are“cautiously optimistic” that this is...

New Army Recruiting Programs and Incentives
The Army is using a variety of programs and incentives to help attract more young men and women into its ranks. The Army's recruiting goal for FY 2005 is 80,000 troops -- 3,000 higher than lat year's requirements, and 6,200...

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