On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:23:50 -0400, "Harry.Krause"
wrote:

John H wrote:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:05:13 -0400, "Harry.Krause"
wrote:


Gene Kearns wrote:

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:43:23 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:



"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:55:15 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:



Do you have any of the Marine re-enlistment statistics?


http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f...925-886734.php
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That site says nothing about "re-enlistment".



Oops.... missed the "re-" It appears that re-enlistment in the
Marines is up.... an up to $30,000.00 re-enlistment bonus must look
pretty attractive to some .....

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/marin...zonebbonus.htm
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/armyb...orsvsbonus.htm



Is that how cheap life has become?


In 1966, a six year reenlistment was worth $1200 *if* one qualified for a higher
level 'Variable Reenlistment Bonus'!


I guess to some $30,000 seems a sim. But it kinda makes you wonder about
the connection between Bush's open door illegal worker policy and a
military drawn from mostly lower socio-economic classes. Keep the
pressure on them, offer them a few bucks, and send them off to die...no
decent jobs around here anyway, eh?

Find me a country with a better unemployment rate. If none of the jobs are
paying anything, why are house prices increasing about 20% a year? Even the
illegals around here are getting $10-12 an hour for yardwork.


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John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)