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As detailed in Marine administrative message 645\/14, troops specializing in 42 fields \u2013 jobs like combat videographers, helicopter mechanics and cryptologic linguists \u2013 no longer will be eligible for selective re-enlistment bonus program as of <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">come<\/span> January 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the re-enlistment period for fiscal 2015 opened in July, returning first-term Marines in 106 specialties could expect bonuses, a few as much as $50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Career Marines up for re-enlistment face fewer restrictions so far. Among those troops, only Marines in one of five specialties risk missing out on bonuses. That list includes fixed-wing aircraft and air frame mechanics for the F-35B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impending elimination of re-enlistment bonuses for Marines in those specialties stems from their popularity. Less than six months into the re-enlistment period, the Corps has reached its retention goals for each of those MOSs, according to the administrative message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The selective re-enlistment bonus program is one of several tools available to officials tasked with reshaping the size and capability of the Corps. After swelling to 202,000 personnel during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the service is expected to shrink to as few as 174,000 Marines by 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps officials say they have reached retention goals in 47 military occupational specialties this fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":83,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[83,12,15,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1950],"class_list":["post-19014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-benefits","category-news","category-pay-benefits","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"L2ZCUAJ365BB5B7L3CCW7L3YHM","arc_canonical_url":"\/pay-benefits\/military-benefits\/2014\/12\/12\/opportunities-for-re-enlistment-bonuses-begin-to-dwindle\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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