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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2012 19:21:29 GMT -5
No doubt about that. I was a SP4 in 1964 with a wife and a baby and I drew $99 a month. She got a housing allowance of somewhere around $50 or so. It wasn't easy, but we made it.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Dec 29, 2012 10:19:47 GMT -5
Yeah, Denny, things have sure changed. My first military pay was $22.90 per month. Then I got commissioned and it jumped all the way up to $222.20 per month. Of course I had to buy a bunch of new uniforms, and since I was RA, no uniform allowance. (Can't complain about the retirement pay though....and I have been drawing that for 17 years longer than I served on active duty. Thank you taxpayers, thank you vera much... But prices were very different in those days, though. That's true. In those days I could fill the back of a station wagon with groceries for $20.00. Now $20 won't fill a grocery bag.... There has been a change in the lifestyle of our military, however. An indication - the plot of ground just outside the back gate at Carlisle Barracks where we used to have little family plots to grow vegetables to supplement our grocery shopping budget is now a parking lot for huge Mobile Homes, and most "on post' housing units have two cars in the driveway, except those that have been upgraded with two car garages.... Not complaining, however, because when the active duty types get a pay raise, the retired folks retirement is also increased... Thank you tax payers...Thank you....
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Post by Swampy on Dec 29, 2012 11:22:48 GMT -5
There has been a change in the lifestyle of our military, however. An indication - the plot of ground just outside the back gate at Carlisle Barracks where we used to have little family plots to grow vegetables to supplement our grocery shopping budget is now a parking lot for huge Mobile Homes, and most "on post' housing units have two cars in the driveway, except those that have been upgraded with two car garages.... So, in the past, families grew vegetables to supplement their diets; now, they have two cars. That means people are getting better off - and that's good. Of course, since 1979, wages have fallen, because of the world's labor supply, so we may be going back to vegetable gardens soon.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 14:54:19 GMT -5
The biggest reason for one car then vs two now is because back then the wives stayed at home and now most of them work.
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