I told him that he is on track to walk back and forth, across the line dividing spec ops and intel, for twenty years, and have a blast doing it. It will never be boring.

I had to look up SCI. My daughter has never spoken about that, but she did get Top Secret. Lots of family and friends have been coming up to me the last few months and saying, “Hey, some guy from the government came and asked me about your daughter.” I think she was very releaved when they told her it went through, even though we couldn’t think of anything she’d ever done that would preclude her from getting it.

She loves Monterey and so far hasn’t found any reason not to make a career of the Navy. Did I mention I’m a proud Dad?

The kids that enlist for DLI, and complete it, get a $25K enlistment bonus – but they need to be able to hold an SCI clearance. The Lcpl was in boot camp, getting his SCI interview, and the kid in front, with a linguist contract, got tossed when he admitted to smoking dope > 10 times. Sayonara, $25K. Got re-MOS’ed to a MOS with a bonus, but since he didn’t enter on that, he wouldn’t get it, even though those in the school with him would. There is something to admire in the unflinching application of USMC policies.

Better explaination here. Actual MARADMIN is here. All in how you spin it.

Also, an interesting kicker in there — if you have elementary knowledge (2/2 score), of one of the high demand languages (which gives you a secondary linguist MOS), you can get the linguist SRB — $50 to $63K.

Give the Marines what they want, you get what you want. Now to get the Lcpl studying Dari!

I might be wrong. Have been before.

As Capt. Lex has stated in previous posts, the Service’s base their enlistment/retention programs on being as efficient and cost-effective as possible. Marines are being ‘punished’? Not really. The needs of the Service come first.