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On May 15, 2018, Army officials released new guidance on the Army's Selective Retention Bonus (SRB) Program, which includes first-ever bonuses up to $52,000 for those who reenlist for critical Security Forces Assistance Brigade positions. [31]
Bonus Army. The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E ...
The United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC, yoo-ZUH-rek), located at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is responsible for the recruitment and accession of new Soldiers for the United States Army and Army Reserve. Recruiting operations are conducted throughout the United States, U.S. territories, and at U.S. military facilities in Europe, Asia, and ...
Selective Service System. The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft). Although the U.S. military is currently an all-volunteer force, registration is ...
JP) Official Army regulations (40-501, standards of medical fitness) have traditionally stated that for appointment to the military, “current or history of diabetes mellitus (250) does not meet ...
In the United States Army Reserve, the Selected Reserve (SR) is the component of the Reserve most readily available for call-up to active duty. (The other Reserve components are the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) and the Retired Reserve.) The Selected Reserve is composed of Troop Program Units (TPUs), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) Soldiers ...
This is a list of current formations of the United States Army, which is constantly changing as the Army changes its structure over time. Due to the nature of those changes, specifically the restructuring of brigades into autonomous modular brigades, debate has arisen as to whether brigades are units or formations; for the purposes of this list, brigades are currently excluded.
According to the 2018 “Medical Standards for Appointment, Enlistment, or Induction into the Military Services” issued by the Department of Defense, having a history of asthma after 13 years of ...