Army ups bonuses for recruits to $50K, as COVID-19 takes toll
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The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who will join for six years, as the COVID-19 pandemic takes a toll on recruitment.
"We are still living the implications of 2020 and the onset of COVID, when the school systems basically shut down," said Vereen. "We lost a full class of young men and women that we didn’t have contact with, face-to-face."
Two years of the pandemic has made it more difficult to recruit in schools and at public events, and the competition for quality workers has intensified as young people weigh their options.
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