The Corps is once again dishing out $5,000 bonuses to recruits who sign up to go infantry for six years.
In a MARADMIN posted Wednesday, recruits who decide to go grunt for six year and complete the training for either riflemen, light-armor vehicle, machine gunner, mortarmen, infantry assault, or antitank missile gunner, can get the cash.
The Corps has offered the $5,000 infantry six-year contract bonus for at least four years now.
The money is part of the Corps’ Enlistment Bonus Program that helps recruit talented and qualified individuals in a variety of fields and critical skills. The bonuses for fiscal year 2019 range from $1,000 to $8,000.
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Below is a list of fields the Corps is offering enlistment bonuses for:
Electronics Maintenance, $8,000
Supply, Accounting, and Legal, $3,000
Information and Comm Technology, $5,000
Cyber, Intel, Crypto Ops and Plans, $2,000
Motor Transport, $4,000
Infantry 6-year Option, $5,000
Music, $6,000
CBRN Defense, $7,000
Shipping Bonus, $1,000
The Corps is dishing out other large bonuses for a separate program known as the Selective Retention Bonuses that targets experienced grunts who are or plan to complete the Infantry Small Unit Leaders Course.
Those bonuses can net a Marine nearly $70,000.
Shawn Snow is the senior reporter for Marine Corps Times and a Marine Corps veteran.
