Amazing, how pay was...
I remember making $79.00 as an E-1, made 'deuce out of basic, and that was 89$$$$. got to Pleiku as a PFC, made SP4 a month later, and SP5 four months after that... I don't even remember beaing "boarded"...
E-3 was 135.20... E-4 was 155.00 as a SP5, 313.00. Plus that glorious FDP and HFP of 78.00.

But, none of us were in it to get rich...

Lumpy