jerry conners banned

[39mto39g]

PHO
I would be happy to meat you anytime, One on one, without all your back up.
And I do believe we would actually get along. Or we would fight and you would loose. But then, I just may Run. Done that many times before.

Ron

[phuloi]

Memory?
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That`s about it...

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Griz- note last 4

[reconeil]

While browsing about that Vietnam War: "Audy Murphy" phony wannabe, your $68 a month pay gripe got me thinking & questioning.

When took Basic Training as a: "Leg" in February 1955 at Fort Riley, Kansas with 10th Recon. Co. 1st Pltn. Scouts, remember being paid $97 a month & afterwhich about 1/2 of We 150 Recruits w/45 DIs requested transfers to Go Airborne. An extra $50 a month just for jumping out of of a plane and/or about half ADDITIONAL to your pay,...seemed like a pretty-sweet-deal & AB couldn't possibly be any more: "Chicken-shit" than Recon.

It's too bad that NO Transfer Requests were accepted. Hell,...even then one could always use extra money. Besides, Airborne has to give you a much better ride than a jeep ever will, anyway.

Regardless & granted there were no doubt many more people in The Service during your time or Vietnam. Still & because so many were Serving then, did Johnson give everyone an overall pay-cut? Previously thought that automatically the pay scales would've been a little higher in 1968 than were in '58 and/or my last Military Pay? Guess I was wrong?

Neil

[phuloi]

Geez, Hal, Mabe we ought to play those numbers, huh? Wow! Just had a flashback-my mom used to play those numbers (7737) all the time and made money. Can you believe it? My little old gray haired mother had a BOOKIE! He was actually her cousin, Sharky. I don`t even know if they still run a numbers racket. They used to get the numbers from the way races finished either at the dog or horse track.
Wow, mabe I have a better memory than I thought. Mostly selective.

[phuloi]

Seem to recall pay scale as: e-1 $68, e-2 $76, e-3 $84, e-4 $96. And the good ole $55 combat pay.

[reconeil]

Guess Old Johnson really did cut The Military Pays down, quite some.
What with: "Guns & Butter" annnnnnnnnnd; "All That Jazz".

My E-1 pay was $97 a month & E-5 Staff Sgt (were no Buck Sgts. then)
was about $175 a month gross. Cleared about 150 something.

Won't state my RA serial number since don't want any out there claiming any of my back pay.
F3494 like what once stencilled on everything owned, OK since nothing much fits me anymore.

Neil

[Packo]

I was basically talking about E1 pay after taxes and the "voluntary" war bond. Came out to about 68 a month. When I was briefly on jump status I got 55 extra. When I got to Vietnam, they sent me to the 8th Cav which, for a time, was on jump status, "Jumpin' Mustangs", but were off status and letting legs in. So...I got an exta 65 a month for combat pay but they took away the extra 55. I think, only the 173rd still recieved the 55 and maybe the 82nd. The 101 had started letting in legs and was taken off jump status and made, "air assult." I may be wrong about both the 173rd and the 82nd but they were both all Airborne. When I made E5, Buck Sgt, I was getting something like 280 plus 65 combat pay. When I got home, it came out to about 265 after taxes and of course, no combat pay. It sure wasn't much.

Frisco. Were you guys getting Jump Pay in Vietnam? (the 101 was still all Airborne when Frisco was there)

Pack

[DMZ-LT]

Went into the Army in July 69 as a 2nd LT. made about $ 274 a month and didn't think I could spend that much. $2 a carton Luckys ,5 cent shots at the O club and they gave me clothes ,housing and food. Might be why I rode my bike , naked , through the O club annex under the go - go girls. Some great fights in there.What were they going to do -- send your ass to Vietnam ?

[Packo]

I thought cigs were only $1 a carton....or was that in Vietnam and 2 bucks back in the states. All I know is that the carton's we got in Nam were stale and awful. Didn't know it until I got home though. My first morning home my dad had picked up my pack and smoked one...well, lit it. He said it was like smoking "Stalin's Socks". I tried one of his then one of mine....I threw away the other 2 cartons I brought home.

Pack