
"That's based on your MOS, a special skill you have, or maybe even a specific location you're in," Bragg said. If a Soldier is in an MOS listed in the Selective Reenlistment Bonus message - MILPER 11-301 - and re-enlists, they'll receive a bonus to remain in that MOS. "If you're in a job that doesn't offer promotion potential, or you just want to do something different, that's where the Army needs you," Bragg said. 89D, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist.37F, Psychological Operations Specialist.31D, Criminal Investigations Special Agent.

The MOSs that currently have shortages include: "We still have military occupational specialties, or MOSs, that offer incentives to stay in or reclassify in," Bragg said. With the Army downsizing, Bragg said, the perception might be that there are no bonuses or any kind of incentives out there anymore. The second phase will start no later than March 1. This year, Army G-1, the staff that makes policy for retention actions, has broken the retention mission up into two phases, with the first phase running from Oct. Historically, the Army's retention mission would encompass October through the following September - the entire fiscal year. 31, whichever date you hit first," said Jim Bragg, chief of Enlisted Retention and Reclassification at the Human Resources Command. "If your expiration of term of service is in fiscal year 2012, you have to re-enlist before you hit 90 days from, or Jan.

31, or they won't get to stay in the Army.

WASHINGTON - Some Soldiers will need to make a reenlistment decision by Jan.
