From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:27:04 -0500, Jeff Shultz
 wrote:

> Nope - we got money too.... we didn't get the benny's, but then again, we
> volunteered to get out then. Considering I wasn't going to pass my next
> PT test and knew that I'd be out at the end of the enlistment, I took it
> as a sign from heaven and signed as fast as I could...

In the Navy (and I expect in the other services as well) it depended on
your rate/MOS.  As a submarine QM in the 80's, I caught some fat
re-enlistment bonuses because they were low on QMs.  By my 16-year mark,
they had just enough: no bonus, and also no early retirement.  I would have
had to re-enlist for four more years to get to the standard 20-year
retirement; that entailed four years of sea duty, and I bailed.  I was able
to get discharged due to weight, and actually got 50% of the standard
medical discharge "bonus".

Then I took all the money I had saved from all those bonuses, and took in a
movie .  Hindsight is 20-20.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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