Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the USA Today, "Bonuses Boost Reserve's Recruitment."
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Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the USA Today, "Bonuses Boost Reserve's Recruitment."
The Army Reserve has reversed a serious recruiting drought by significantly increasing the amount of cash bonuses it pays to recruit and keep soldiers to bolster ranks thinned by five years of war in Iraq.
In 2007, it paid out $315 million in recruiting and retention bonuses. That's a 46% increase over 2006. That year, the Reserve paid $216 million in bonuses while falling 5% short of its recruiting goal. [...]
Although the money has helped the Reserve meet its recruiting goals, the ever-increasing bonuses cannot be sustained, said Christine Wormuth, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Pentagon official. "Pretty soon we won't be able to afford the force," she said. Read the article
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