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On 2/4/2016 3:15 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/4/16 1:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/4/2016 1:09 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 2/4/16 12:59 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 10:58:46 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 09:26:55 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/4/2016 8:56 AM, True North wrote:

John H.
- show quoted text -
"So what. In 1965 I was making $72/month. But, my food, clothing
and shelter were all
free. And I didn't have to pay for ammo."

.....and you were grossly overpaid at that!

I distinctly remember paydays early in my Navy days on the first
ship.
Every two weeks the crew lined up in and outside the mess decks to be
paid. When my turn came, I'd present my ID card and the dispersing
officer would hand me a small, manilla envelope with all $50 and some
change in it. We were paid in cash back then. Now-a-days
everything
is direct deposit.

Cash was king back then. When I got married, my wife got a $95 check
- a 'class Q
allotment', I believe they called it. They took $50 from my pay and
added $45 to get
the $95 for her. That left me about $45, before taxes. I'd gotten
promoted before
getting married so my pay was up close to $90 by then. Of course, the
food and
lodging were no longer free!

What was comrats then? a buck a day? I do remember the old "off base"
guys paying a buck or so for lunch when I was in FT school. In those
days the chow was real good and it was certainly a bargain.
The only rule was "take all you want, eat all you take".

We got paid in cash when I worked for the Bigelow Boiler Company in New
Haven. Every Friday afternoon just before quitting time an armored truck
would roll into the factory yard and we'd line up to get our pay
envelopes. In '63 or '64, I recall. The office workers got paid in
checks every two weeks.

Sorry for chuckling Harry but your post strikes me as being funny.
The vets here are reminiscing about 1960's military pay in the Army,
Navy and Coast Guard and you offer your experience with the Bigelow
Boiler Company. LOL (sorry ... just hit my funny bone)

`
Well, you had to have some skills, aptitude and be trainable to be hired
by Bigelow. A couple of the guys I sort of knew in high school who
didn't go to college had no skills or aptitudes that were apparent, so
they joined the army. Chuckle, chuckle.

So exactly what skills were required to crawl through a little hole with
a bucket and scrub brush in hand, in order to clean the inside of a boiler?

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