The year ahead

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Staff Sgt. Kyle Scott of U.S. Army Europe's Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, smiles as he and his fellow soldiers packed their gear Oct. 28 for their return home to Schweinfurt, Germany, after a 15-month deployment in Iraq. Officials say the Army will make an aggressive campaign in 2008 to spread the burden of combat deployments across the entire force.


The year ahead
By Jim Tice - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jan 6, 2008 8:53:05 EST

The Selective Re-enlistment Bonus program will continue running at full throttle in 2008, according to the Army’s senior personnel manager. “I think this program will continue to be very healthy, and I think we will continue to use it to fill vacancies in the high-tech and skilled specialties,” said Maj. Gen. Sean Byrne, commanding general of Human Resources Command.

In a recent interview with Army Times, Byrne outlined a range of key HRC programs for the coming year:

1. Pay to stay and retraining opportunities. The Army retooled the Selective Re-enlistment Bonus program in 2007, phasing in a new “flat-rate” system to calculate more than $600 million in payments for the inventory, location, deployed, and bonus extension and retraining programs.

Budget legislation recently passed by Congress and awaiting President Bush’s signature authorizes the Army to continue that program for the next year.

Options across all components of the program were updated in mid-December. To see the SRB charts, go to http://www.armytimes.com.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/army_yearahead_080107w/