So now, for the next 30 months, if you reenlist, you will be guaranteed to stay at your duty station, so that you can stabilize your family or if you're going to school, whatever the situation may be. "We offer them the opportunity to stabilize there for up to 30 months. "Some people want to just stay where they're at," Whitney said. Troops coming up on the end of their contract sometimes also have room to negotiate their duty station or job. In rare cases, those bonuses can be up to $81,000, but that money is usually reserved for highly technical jobs covering only a relatively small number of soldiers. About 45% of soldiers who extend their contracts get those bonuses, the average of which was $14,000 this year. Clearly the jury is out on it, but what we're trying to do is give it every opportunity to succeed if it can.The Army offers a handful of major incentives to keep soldiers on board, the main one being retention bonuses. There are a few stalwart young ladies who are charging into this, but they are too few. “This is a policy that I inherited, and so far the cadre is so small we have no data on it,” he said. The Army chief of staff and Marine Corps commandant are looking at the issue. “But we cannot do something that militarily doesn't make sense.” “The military has got to have officers who look at this with a great deal of objectivity and at the same time remember our natural inclination to have this open to all,” he said. The nation needs to discuss this issue, the secretary said. quote when talking to his fellow Civil War veterans: "We have shared the incommunicable experience of war." The close-combat fight is war at its most basic, and Mattis cited an Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. They're cocky, they're rambunctious, they're necessarily macho, and it's the most primitive – I would say even evil - environment. How did the infantry get its name? Infant soldier.
“I was never under any illusions at what level of respect my Marines would have for me if I couldn't run with the fastest of them and look like it didn't bother me if I couldn't do as many pullups as the strongest of them,” Mattis said. Part of what drives the question is the culture of close-combat units, the retired Marine Corps general said. “We don't even have data at this time that I can answer your question,” he added. The secretary said he cannot make a determination about the situation because “so few women have signed up along these lines.” Specifically in infantry, the Marine Corps has 26 enlisted Marines and one officer who are women.
The Marine Corps has 113 enlisted women and 29 officers in previously restricted specialties. Currently, 356 women are combat arms soldiers, and 17 women have graduated from the Army’s Ranger School. In 2015, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter directed the services to open all military occupational specialties to women. Then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta opened the door by removing the ban on women in combat jobs in 2013. The question for the department comes down to whether it is a strength or a weakness to have women in the close-quarter infantry fight, Mattis said. Who grabs a baseball bat and gets between the kids' door and whoever broke in, and who reaches for the phone to call 911? In other words, it goes to the most almost primitive needs of a society to look out for its most vulnerable.”Īt heart, this is the issue DoD faces, Mattis told the cadet who asked him what results he had seen. “In the event of trouble, you're sleeping at night in your family home and you are the dad, mom, whatever. “It’s a very, very tough issue because it goes from some people's perspective of what kind of society do we want,” the secretary said.
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