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OT-remember when?
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JerryB
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Re: OT-remember when?
It looks like I drew about $55.00 a month when I took Basic at Fort Leonard Wood Mo in 1958.
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Re: OT-remember when?
It says $342 something but I remember checks of about $150 or so, twice a month. After uniforms, haircuts, etc, I think it was down to about $100 for 2 weeks. About 3 weeks ago I spent near to that on a TANK of gas. 
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Hobie
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Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
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I remember when $361.20 a month was grazin' in tall grass fer a particular young E-1.
Now 25x that ain't quite enough.
Ah, for simpler times...
Now 25x that ain't quite enough.
Ah, for simpler times...
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
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jnyork
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E-2 under 2 was a whopping $99.00. After income tax, social security and the mandatory 15.00 or whatever it was for the US Savings Bond, I think I netted about $70.00. But then, smokes were $1.10 a carton, beer was 75 cents a pitcher, a new pair of boots could be had for $6.00. Still, some might thin times for many years. 
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Wow, started at about $124 a month. Minimum wage was $1.40 so a month's wages would be $224. Then again, we worked overtime and weekends for free, so figure it worked out to say 12 hours a day (being nice here), figuring at time and a half for overtime, a civilian minimum wage earner would get $392. Conclusion, boys, we sure didn't do it for the money. Something that many of those that didn't serve would understand.
And yet, there was always money for beer.
And yet, there was always money for beer.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
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Old Ironsights
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And here I am wishing I was making what I would be making if I was still in... 
Worse... this thread just reminded me that this was the month I was supposed to RETIRE from the Army...
Worse... this thread just reminded me that this was the month I was supposed to RETIRE from the Army...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough.
מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976
Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976
Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
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jnyork
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Hey, jeepnik, what was your association with the Pedro's??
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Spent some time as a firefighter in them in the early '70s. Then they deactivated them, seemed like almost overnight. Did some LBR work in Thailand, and other, uhh, places. Just noticed Chevrons in you sig line. What was you AFSC?jnyork wrote:Hey, jeepnik, what was your association with the Pedro's??
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
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jnyork
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Aviation mechanic for a while, then fllight engineer, C123, C7A, EC121. Last 4 in Recruiting Service.jeepnik wrote:Spent some time as a firefighter in them in the early '70s. Then they deactivated them, seemed like almost overnight. Did some LBR work in Thailand, and other, uhh, places. Just noticed Chevrons in you sig line. What was you AFSC?jnyork wrote:Hey, jeepnik, what was your association with the Pedro's??