Navy offers up to $20,000 bonus to reservists signing up for deployment-intensive duty

A Naval Reservist power washes a vehicle engine before doing maintenance at the Construction Mechanic Shop at Camp Fallujah in March. He is assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 18 based out of Fort Lewis, Washington, which is made up of reservists from the Pacific Northwest who have volunteered for Iraq duty.

The Navy Reserve expects to begin paying bonuses within the next few months to encourage reservists to transition to deployment-intensive ratings as part of an effort to shift the reserve component to a more expeditionary footing — and that should mean significantly longer mobilizations for most reservists in coming years.

The Navy Reserve announced in March that it will pay bonuses of up to $20,000 to people who sign up for six-year hitches and $10,000 for those who sign up for three-year commitments in 15 deployment-intensive ratings.

Bonuses for civilians who go directly into the Navy Reserve are being paid for several Seabee ratings, hospital corpsmen, intelligence specialists and masters at arms.

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