[ItsForTheChildren]

First off, I am not a troll. That said, here's my question.

Heard an interesting caller on Michael Reagan's show last night who said that if they don't re-enlist that they go on active reserve and get activated anyway, so if there are bonuses involved they re-enlist. Reagan didn't do a good job of responding to this, in my opinion. I'd really like to hear this refuted. Can anyone here do that?

[kellynla]

Maybe you can answer this question from "its for the children"? Have you heard anything about the reenlistment "incentives"?

Heard an interesting caller on Michael Reagan's show last night who said that if they don't re-enlist that they go on active reserve and get activated anyway, so if there are bonuses involved they re-enlist. Reagan didn't do a good job of responding to this, in my opinion. I'd really like to hear this refuted. Can anyone here do that?

[scarface367]

Heard an interesting caller on Michael Reagan's show last night who said that if they don't re-enlist that they go on active reserve and get activated anyway, so if there are bonuses involved they re-enlist.

This is completely false. Once one leaves the active military component, you are placed in the Individual Ready Reserve status for between 2-4 years, depending on how long you served. While in this status, you don't report for duty, training, or anything like that, but there is a chance that you could be recalled to active duty. However, this activation is currently not going on. And usually before there is an activation, the offer chances for people to be voluntarily recalled, which would provide bonuses.

[JeeperFreeper]

Number one son is Marine grunt with A/1/5 in Ramadi as we write. He says that the Marines are offering a $20K bonus for Marine grunt re-enlistments when the Marines are within a certain time period before the Marines' EAS. There are no threats to activate a Marine going into IRR after active duty. This sort of contention sounds silly to me since the military can always do a stop-loss anyway.

[kellynla]

Okay, I just got a confirmation on the reenlistments.
As far as the Marine Corps goes, the Marines are offering $20K bonus for grunt reenlistments. There's been NO THREAT concerning being activated out of inactive reserve.

Semper Fi,
Kelly