There’s another problem COP—servicemembers, especially young ones without significant obligations or responsibilities outside just themselves, making it to muster, etc., tend to have a thorny problem: Blowing bonus cash almost immediately on wasteful and unnecessary things.
For all of them to become temporarily semi-rich all at once is, frankly, to invite booze-filled, extravagance-strewn mayhem.
This Guy suggests parceling out the $1776 over six months instead of all at once.
Was a young military member - a booze filled few days with a few of my co-military sounds like perfect use of the $$$...