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lebkuchen

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Sat Dec-10-05 03:44 PM
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I spoke with an new army enlistee today, just arrived to Germany, 22 y.o.

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Edited on Sat Dec-10-05 03:47 PM by lebkuchen

He said the recruiters had been after him for quite awhile, in Santa Cruz, CA. Finally, he decided to enlist after being offered a $7,000 bonus to be a combat engineer, whose job it would be to clear roads of IEDs, keeping them open for the convoys. He wants to use the bonus to buy a motorcycle. He also wants to use the GI bill to go to college.

He said that those enlisting as truck drivers were getting at least a $15,000 bonus.

He's supposed to go to Iraq in June. He's looking forward to it, as he wants to test out the skills he's been honing in training.

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