Marine Corps offers up to $6,000 bonus for deployed enlistment extensions

Above: Marines attached to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment patrol the main street of Hadithah last week

If seeing your section’s new private first class safely through his first combat deployment isn’t motivation enough to extend your enlistment long enough to make one last trip to the sandbox, now there’s money in it too, according to a May 21 Corps-wide message.

Marines slated to leave active duty before Sept. 30 who extend their end of active service into next fiscal year to make a seven-month deployment with their unit are entitled to $3,000 in assignment incentive pay, according to MarAdmin 323/07.

Marines who extend to make a yearlong deployment rate $6,000 under the new policy, which applies only to active-duty Marines, but does not specify whether they must be an officer or enlisted.

The payments authorized by the Corps’ “combat extension program” are retroactive to Oct. 1, 2006, and include Marines who extended into fiscal 2008 if their extension was made to accommodate a deployment, according to the message.

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