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![]() "Ogden Johnson III" wrote in message ... "Red Rider" wrote: SNIP! SNIP! Is there anyone (other than Vincent P. Norris) that remembers being paid in cash every other Friday? Went the whole gamut, save once-a-month cash pay days, from 1st/15th of the month [or 5th/20th, it varied depending on base] cash pay days, to the same days but checks, to another mix between the 1/15 (or 5/20) checks and every other week checks. Which, when instituted, got a lot of complaints that "they reduced my pay" from people who couldn't figure out that pay divided into 24 paydays a year might be somewhat less, in individual increments, when the same pay is split between 26 pay days a year. Sigh. Some of the doggies from my HS days who were drafted when I enlisted were still paid under the old Army "once a month" scheme. AFAIK, the Naval Service had gone semi-monthly totally by that time [1961]. At least that was my experience. -- OJ III To the best of my knowledge the Naval Services started switching from every other Friday, cash Paydays about 1960. The switch went by Naval/MC districts. It started in the NE (1st Naval/MC District????). They would go first to checks every other Friday then to Checks twice a month , usually the 1st/15th. I managed to keep getting transferred ahead of the change, until they finally caught me in WestPac. As far as I know WestPac was the last to change over. When we left Japan in late '64 going south they "ENCOURAGED" everyone to draw the minimum cash needed for the month on the 1st and to take the rest either in a check or deposit to the saving program that they had for all military in and around Vietnam and Vietnam waters. The 15th payday was check or saving deposit only. Interest accumulated tax free of course if you were in a combat zone, that is if you got shot at or not, and also if your unit was moving in and out of a combat zone. At that time I know that the Marines rotated most of their units (Hawk Missile Batteries) out of Vietnam for 30-45 days at a time and then returned them. Naval units ashore such as the Seabees, NSA, Patrol Sq, Beachmasters, Medical, Liaison, etc.did likewise, although by sections instead of whole units. Yes Virginia, in those days you didn't get combat pay unless you were shot at, and when you returned to the ship, you must swear to, (not at) the AdminO. Hummmm? when did that change? 1 Jan 66? Polaroid's of tracers flying over the Plane of Jars worked well, until the AdminO got wise. Then we started flying a serious photo mission grin for a few days, until new pictures were taken. I just remembered, we couldn't the "classified" photo's out of Intel to show the AdminO because he didn't "have a need to know". I wonder if things are still as f***ed up?. At that time anything that showed any kind of military activity was classified. |
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