Air Force slashes reenlistment bonuses due to COVID overmanning December 15, 2020 An Air Force pararescueman assigned to the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, operates the canopy of his parachute while conducting a high altitude, high opening military free fall jump working with a C-130J Super Hercules flown by the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in March 2018. Pararescuemen are among the career fields still eligible for enlisted retention bonuses under a sharply curtailed program this year. (Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/Air Force) Some enlisted airmen in 37 undermanned and vital career fields will be eligible for bonuses if they choose to re-enlist in fiscal 2021, the Air Force said Dec. 10.