Recruiting duty, with perks, opened to E-4s

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Recruiting bonus
E-4s could earn up to $5,400 extra a year


Recruiting duty, with perks, opened to E-4s
By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jul 28, 2008 7:07:36 EDT

SAN DIEGO — If you are a hot-running petty officer third class and want a challenge for your first shore duty, the Navy could give you one — as a recruiter.

The job will put an extra $5,400 in your pocket each of the three years of the tour and could put you back in your hometown.

With the need to grow the recruiting force by 500 sailors this year and another 500 next year — in addition to refilling nearly 1,000 current recruiting billets because of annual turnover — the service has opened the duty to E-4s for the first time in a decade.

The goal is a recruiting force of 5,000 by fiscal 2010, up from 3,800 a year ago. At the same time, the Navy’s recruiting goals will increase in the next few years as the drawdown comes to a halt. But so far, the number of E-4s applying to pound the pavement has been low.

“We’ve been given the goal of getting the force to 4,470 this year,” said Chief Yeoman (SW) Paula Grantham, who is in charge of detailing E-4s at Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tenn. “So far, we’ve had very few (E-4 applicants) — only about 20.”


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/07/navy_recruiters_072808w/

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