This is the back of an Army Pay Stub… Nice that it showed who made what … maybe we still tell the troops the cost of their stripes and bars. When I see this I realize again how foolish the Friedman-esque statement about “Mercenaries” was. Remember, most of the soldiers in Vietnam when this Pay Stub was issued signed up. They were “RA”, not “US.”
I was one of the very few draftees in that first build up. I knew no other “US” in my MOS in my unit.

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