Pay schedule of 1967.

[A. F Medic]

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[jon_norstog]

AF,

that was me. i made e-4 in 1967. that $177.90 was more than double what I got as an E-2 enlistee. Oh, yeah, USCG paid cash. You go up to the tale,there's a yeoman doing the paperwork and a GM with a .45 guarding the caSH. pay was in cash... including $2 bills when I was in the 2nd (USCG) District.

The women who hung ot around the base could reAD YOUR stripes. They knew that the ones on top didn't count as much as the ones on he bottom of the sleeve. In any case, the $ that seemed so big back then looks like peanuts today.

It's kind of fun to remember!

jn

[browningautorifle]

As a Canadian basic Private soldier in Febuary 1974, I got $330 a month before deductions. After it was $90 mid month and $91 end month. That was great after being out on the farm getting nothing!

[old crow]

At age 20, broke and tired after two years of "pre-vet" at a Jr. College (Community College now) and working for $0.65/hour in a veterinary clinic I enlisted in the USAF in June of '63. Something like $67/mo. as a basic. $75 after basic and a stripe. $87 with the second stripe and $99.37 as an A2C and over 2 years longevity When I look at my SS earnings statement history I always note that I actually took a pay loss when I enlisted compared with the two previous years working a $0.65/hour in the veterinary clinic (the clinic had care-taker quarters that I lived in so my rent was "covered" there). I recall too that on 5 January 79 my pay jumped a whopping $125/mo. when I went from E-7 to O-1.

[browningautorifle]

Just remember how much a pack of smokes were and a glass of beer in the hotel was, you were a rich man on payday. Then along came wives and kids...

[A. F Medic]

We could buy cigarettes in our barracks in Okinawa for 17cents a pack! 1968

[Tarheel]

In Thailand a quart of Imperial whiskey was 90 cents, a quart of Beefeaters gin was 75 cents; not that I ever drank any!
With what I was making a month back then I might be able to purchase a badly Bubba'd K-98 now.

[rivets1]

I made E-4 Buck in March '68, went to Andersen AFB on Guam in April '68 on Arc Light TDY. Cigarettes there also .17 a pack. One of my buddies said "you can't afford to not smoke at those prices".

[phil441]

I was never able to keep up with the AF rank designations after I left in January of '65. I left as an E-4, Airman First Class. Later I learned that that rank was now a Senior Airman. Medic's chart shows that two years later I would have been a Sergeant. No wonder I've had an identity crisis.

[Skip]

$270 for E-5 pay
$55 Combat pay
$55 Jump pay

All the beer and smokes for free along with a $5 short time.
Not bad for an 18 year old.