Pay schedule of 1967.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

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Historical Military Pay Rates - Military Benefits - Military.com

Pretty scary what they paid us to get shot at.

Skip,
I got $65 combat pay in 1968, 69,& 70. You got robbed at $55

I didn't smoke, but cigarettes in a combat zone were tax free. You could buy 2 cartons a week at $1.00 a carton non filter, $1.10 filtered. I would buy them and trade them off.

In the PI, San Miguel beer was 50 centavos. At 7 pesos to a dollar that came to about 7¢ a beer. And being 19 and not able to drink in the states, we went nuts.

[Mike Haas]

I went to Viet Nam 2 weeks after I turned 18 Aug 13,1966..Spent 26 Months there and returned CONUS on Oct 14, 1968. Beer & Cigs were indeed about 10 Cents each.

What really frosted my skinny butt was that when I got back I wasn't legally old enough to vote or buy beer or hard liqour ..

I've never gotton over the irony of that scenerio....

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

If we were old enough for the President and Congress to send us off to war. We should have been old enough to vote for the person/persons doing it to us. But at least that has been changes. Not the drinking though. I do remember getting off the C-130 in Wake. There was a beer machine, went empty pretty fast. I think it was 25¢.

[DaveHH]

I remember 40 oz British quarts of Gilby's gin and Vodka $1 each. Rose's Lime juice $2. Smokes 10 cents a pack, beer 15 cents. Me and my pal Habgood tried to drink a bottle of each one night and after we passed out they blew up two helicopters that night, we didn't come close to waking up. One of these: "Get up this is a red alert!".... "F**k you"..."That's f**ck you SIR!"..... "Oh, be right there SIR" My mouth tasted like the bottom of a bird cage.

[DaveN]

Airman Basic,E-1, slick sleeve or just slick. 1979 = $408 per month. 1983 E-4 sergeant dragging down $1200+ a month (includes money for off base housing and rations) so I'm not sure what the actual rate was probably $800 something. But in England gas(petrol)was $4.00+ a gal and more importantly a pint of Arkells 4Bs was 75 pence. I was told 4Bs was best 2 and 3Bs you paid less but paid for it latter, I'm talking gas not petrol.