European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages stars and stripes sunday met Rich 18 2q07 army expands referral Bonus program by Lisa Burgess stars and stripes Arlington a army civilians can now collect the referral Bonus for persuading someone to join the ser vice army officials announced thursday the referral Bonus Pilot pro Gram which began in january 2006 originally was instituted As a Bonus open to soldiers regardless of component or rank and then opened to retirees the Bonus went from to on nov 13 thanks to a clause in the 2007 defense authorization Bill but it took a while for the army to develop mechanisms to provide the payments for civil civilians who work for the service now eligible for incentive ians according to Al Green chief of the army recruiting policy Branch the program came out of the Gate in january 2006 and was restricted to soldiers referring other soldiers Green told stars and stripes on Friday at that Point Green said army officials Learned there were other communities that were affiliated with the army that should Benefit from the pro Gram like retirees and civil ians who work for the service so Congress revisited the act that authorized Money for the Bonus department of the army civil ians can now also get the Bonus As instructed in the defense Bill in the programs first year there have been 24472 referrals made to the program Green said of those referrals 3378 recruits joined one of the three army components payouts come in two Lump sums when the referral candidate enters Basic training and the second after the Soldier graduates from either one station unit training or advanced individual training the enlistment can be with any component including the Active army army National guard or the army Reserve the person who enlists must not have previously served in the us armed forces but for a referral to count in the program a civilian has to use one of two web Sites to Regis Ter a recruit before the recruit first meets with an army Recruiter or for potential army National guard recruits Iso Ogo people making referrals including civilians and retirees cant refer members of their immediate family which the army defines to include children including stupor adopted Chil spouses parents or stepparents and Brothers and Sisters cousins uncles and aunts and other extended family Are Eligi ble for referral referees also do not qualify for the Bonus if they Are serving in a recruiting or retention assignment or As a Junior Reserve officer training corps instructor according to the army rules for the program email Lisa Burgess at 1 Sailor killed 1 injured in Guam base shooting 3rd Sailor from Mississippi based naval Mobile construction battalion 74 taken into military custody by Tori Weaver stars and stripes one Sailor has died another is recover ing and a third has been taken into custody after a shooting thursday morning on a us Navy base in Guam a Navy spokes Man confirmed Friday the shooting happened at about am thursday at Camp Covington a Mili tary area inside Guam naval base in Santa Rita the sailors were members of naval to bile construction battalion 74 a deployed unit from Gulfport miss the incident is currently under investigation by the naval criminal investigative service Navy spokesman it Donnell Evans wrote in an email in response to stars and stripes one Sailor died at 2 pm thursday at us naval Hospital Guam according to Evans that sailors name was being withheld Friday pending notification of family members Evans wrote on Friday the wounded Sailor was re covering from surgery Evans wrote his name was being withheld out of re Spect for Bis privacy Evans wrote the Sailor in custody remained in confinement Friday at Andersen air Force base on Guam Evans wrote his name was not released the Navy provided no other details of the shooting the construction battalion provides Mili tary construction support to Navy Marine corps and other forces in times of 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