What Is Going On With the U.S. Navy?
I am watching college basketball and I have seen two commercials in which the U.S. Navy is offering up to a $40,000 bonus. It is not unusual for me to see Navy commercials. However, I have never seen the U.S. Navy offer any bonus, let alone a $40,000 bonus. Is the U.S. Navy struggling to get people to join? For a second I thought the seemingly good economy was making it hard to get people to join the military, even the U.S. Navy, but then I thought, Clinton's economy was good and I do not recall the U.S. Navy promoting bonuses during those years.
I have also been seeing the U.S. Army promoting bonuses, but that is not as surprising as the U.S. Navy because I have known years that they U.S. Army offered bonuses to people joining. At most the U.S. Army is just more openly promoting the use of bonuses. However, I think they may have been advertising their bonuses on TV for many years. Maybe I just heard of those bonuses through word of mouth. However, I have never heard of U.S. Navy bonuses even through word of mouth.
As far as I knew, in the past, the U.S. Navy seemed to throw money at people who were going to college while the U.S. Army threw money at people who were going enlisted. It seemed that if someone was going to college for a science field, especially a field dealing with nuclear technology, the U.S. Navy would give that person a boatload of money. However, it seems that the U.S. Navy has either ended or changed a program that used to pay students to go to college. So, is the U.S. Navy changing its focus from giving large amounts of money to college students to giving large amounts of money to high school graduates?
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...they say Navy, but they're actually being shanghaied into the new SPACE FORCE. 
