The Army is now offering $20,000 sign-up bonus in hopes to lure people into enlisting.  In addition, the new recruits are eligible for college money!  Better yet, these new incentives could get even better if more people don't start joining.  The Army is offering a “buffet” of incentives, including up to $45,000 tax-free that they accrue during their career to help buy a home or build a business. Other options would include money for college and to pay off student loans. It’s all part of an effort to fill its ranks because retention has hit a historic low — 16 percent by the Pentagon’s own surveying — in the fifth year of the Iraq war. Too many soldiers have said "fuck this war" and got out of the Army.

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