<VV> no Corvair - military compensation

[Jim Davis]

Base pay for a private in 1960 was $78 a month.  A college graduate, 
second lieutenant base pay was $222.   I remember very vividly, as I was 
one.  Pay didn't really go up until the US abolished the draft. 
<http://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/militarypaytables.html>

On 8/20/2013 5:11 PM, BBRT wrote:
> Might be. MOST soldiers did NOT have a car in Germany. Lot of soldiers, big
> bases, very low pay back when, very strict regulations. Don't forget, the
> Army issued everything you needed... and if they didn't issue it, you didn't
> need it.
>
> Chuck S