Milsurp After Hours

I joined the Air Force.

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Of coarse that $182.20 return was a serious chunk of change back then.

In July 1967, I was getting about $95 a month in basic training.

Vern.

According to this site, in 2007 dollars you earned $592.47 a month. I got this link from a post at Parallax Bill's site that tells about money buying power...relative to whatever year.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

And Brass Rat, $12855.00 in 1972 is the same as $64,059.42

now. Believe it or Not... as Ripley used to say.

Unfortunately that is a $ sign in front of the 2855.36 not a 1.

I was making the princely sum of $288 a month as an E1

So I seemed to have made $14,227.12 in 2007 dollars.

Sorry about that mental lapse. Still can't see all that well out of one eye. I was trying to read the w2 and not the tax form.

I joined the Merchant Navy as a Cadet on the mega wage of £2/2s/5d a week and all found! 100 DuMaurier Super King Cigarettes were 13/6d !

I do seem to remember that a carton of cigarettes was $1.28 in the commissary at the time.

My E1 take home pay was $67.

As an Airman Basic in 1967 I received $32.50 every two weeks.

It was LBJ who caused the across the board increase in military pay in 1968. It was of course still a draft military, and apparently in never occured to most politicans that draftees required funds.

When I retired in 2005 from the "professional" Army my monthly retirement check came to more money than the first year I spent in the USAF.