My price, it seems, is $50,000.
I was perfectly willing to reenlist for the Critical Skills Retention Bonus of fitty large for six years, as long as I got to do it here and get it tax free. Alas, due to bureaucracy, this is not possible. I would have to do it in the States, where either Obama or McCain would get their greedy little paws into it, and I'd be left with maybe $35K.
$35,000 is not worth it to me.
The reenlistment guy tried to sell me on a few other options, none of which appealed to me. At all.
So, as it stands right now, I will be out of the Army on November 1st, 2010.
What about school, you say? Well, now it certainly comes down to my acceptance into the Active Duty Option of Green to Gold. If I don't get accepted there, well... Goodbye Army, hello GI Bill.
I feel a little melancholy about this. The brat inside me is throwing a bit of a tantrum. I've gotten everything I've ever wanted from the Army in the past--Airborne School, an assignment to the 82nd, Interrogator School, Language School, an assignment with the Special Forces, promotions, amazing deployments and leadership experiences. The one thing the Army has never told me in seven years is "no."
Until now.
I'm still going to drop the Green to Gold packet, but that'll be the only thing keeping me in the Army.
Kind of wierd. Kind of scary.
I was perfectly willing to reenlist for the Critical Skills Retention Bonus of fitty large for six years, as long as I got to do it here and get it tax free. Alas, due to bureaucracy, this is not possible. I would have to do it in the States, where either Obama or McCain would get their greedy little paws into it, and I'd be left with maybe $35K.
$35,000 is not worth it to me.
The reenlistment guy tried to sell me on a few other options, none of which appealed to me. At all.
So, as it stands right now, I will be out of the Army on November 1st, 2010.
What about school, you say? Well, now it certainly comes down to my acceptance into the Active Duty Option of Green to Gold. If I don't get accepted there, well... Goodbye Army, hello GI Bill.
I feel a little melancholy about this. The brat inside me is throwing a bit of a tantrum. I've gotten everything I've ever wanted from the Army in the past--Airborne School, an assignment to the 82nd, Interrogator School, Language School, an assignment with the Special Forces, promotions, amazing deployments and leadership experiences. The one thing the Army has never told me in seven years is "no."
Until now.
I'm still going to drop the Green to Gold packet, but that'll be the only thing keeping me in the Army.
Kind of wierd. Kind of scary.
fancy:
You would want to stay there!!? 