The Army needs thousands more infantrymen by spring
By: Kyle Rempfer  
Editor’s note: This story has been updated from the original version published Monday to show that the amount of selective retention bonuses for infantry tops out at $41,000, according to Human Resources Command, not $72,000, a number originally provided to Army Times.
The Army was short more than 5,000 junior enlisted infantrymen, with the military occupational specialty manned at roughly 79 percent of its goal earlier this quarter.
In numbers obtained by Army Times, the service’s authorized strength for E-1 through E-4 active-duty infantrymen, coded as 11B, stood at 24,893. But the service only had 19,820 junior enlisted infantrymen, according to official fourth quarter numbers dated July 10.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/29/the-army-needs-thousands-more-infantrymen-by-spring/
