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On my last deployment before I retired, they sent me to Tchad for 4 months. I ate, drank & smoked for $11/day, while pulling down $119/day per diem. Nice chunk of change to have on hand, just prior to punching out. Hell, that TDY to DenHaag was only 5 days & we ate like kings & drank like rockstars every damned day & I still pocketed $500 after settling up my travel voucher.

You could also get in some cool travel if so inclined. I got sent to RAF Chicksands to do a presentation at the UK PSYOP school. I had a buddy in London, so I took a week's leave in conjunction & saw London on the super-cheap. At SOCEUR, I had to come back home to Bragg for conferences or schools at least twice a year. Same deal, I 'd take leave in conjunction with my TDY & never had to pay for my own flight home the whole 3 years I was there.
 
Chuckman said:
If you were wise and knew how to play the game, you could make some serious bank and live pretty well.
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Got a buddy who saved $10k on our tri-site deployment to Diego Garcia, Masirah, Kadena.

After every flight out of Masirah we stopped in Fujairah for gas and to pick up about 50 cases of MREs. This guy banked his PD and ate MREs the entire deployment.

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I would often hot bunk, I would find out if there was a sailor who was going to be gone, if we had connections I would rent their place either low-cost or sometimes get it for free, eat peanut butter and jelly, pocket the rest.
 
xtp308 said:
I stopped calling it per diem years ago and started calling it what it is; " glock money".
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I was TDY to Ft Mead, MD for 13 months. I could eat in the chow hall and still got Per Deim. $1800 a month!!! Bought fly rods with mine!
 
When I was in the reserve and after I got my commission I had 3-month orders to Camp Lejeune. No billeting was to be had. I shared a condo at Emerald Isle with a couple other guys, my rent was $400/month. I took my lunch, ate raman and cheap food; most of which I just took from home. Between per diem and BAS/BAH I made out like a bandit.

Your tax dollars at work.
 
The only time i ever saw per diem was when i was in the mass national guard back in the 90's. I attended a two week class at camp edwards. The cadre got us fed three hots a day (nco club, mess hall, etc). At the end of the two weeks we all got paid, even got paid for the meals that we ate.
 
Crazy Carl said:
'Least that one's an 11B/0311 & diggin' foxholes, vs. an 11C/0341 diggin' mortar pits & fire direction centers.
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When I was with an infantry company, we were short-staffed in the weps platoon. Ol' doc here volunteered to go over until they got a new corpsman. I humped the base plate and parts to the 81mm mortar. Once we got a new doc, I got the hell out of there. #neveragain
 
Chuckman said:
When I was with an infantry company, we were short-staffed in the weps platoon. Ol' doc here volunteered to go over until they got a new corpsman. I humped the base plate and parts to the 81mm mortar. Once we got a new doc, I got the hell out of there. #neveragain
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Hahaha. Don't blame you.
 
Chuckman said:
When I was with an infantry company, we were short-staffed in the weps platoon. Ol' doc here volunteered to go over until they got a new corpsman. I humped the base plate and parts to the 81mm mortar. Once we got a new doc, I got the hell out of there. #neveragain
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81's a piece of cake. Ground-mounting a 4-Deuce required 3 healthy dudes to pull the 220lb base plate off the side of the track.

Worst thing about mortars is that if yer "Light" Infantry, you hafta hump it all over the damned place & if yer Airborne, you gotta jump that shit in first. If yer Mech, you've got a several hundred pound gun system to deal with, with a 156lb gun tube to hump to the arms room, plus the added asspain of tracked vehicle maintenance.
 
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I wanted a 2 year hitch with the Army College Fund. Recruiter said I'd hafta go combat arms for that. Artillery? Nah. Tanker? Nah. Infantry? Saw the pic of a squad of dudes un-assing a Huey in steel pots, with M16A1s & thought, "hey, that looks like fun"... Reckon I scored too high on the ASVAB, 'cos I got shoved into 11C & sent to a Mech unit.
 
Crazy Carl said:
81's a piece of cake. Ground-mounting a 4-Deuce required 3 healthy dudes to pull the 220lb base plate off the side of the track.

Worst thing about mortars is that if yer "Light" Infantry, you hafta hump it all over the damned place & if yer Airborne, you gotta jump that shit in first. If yer Mech, you've got a several hundred pound gun system to deal with, with a 156lb gun tube to hump to the arms room, plus the added asspain of tracked vehicle maintenance.
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Wow! Sounds hard!

Lemme tell you 'bout submarine life, where I had to lug a 90 pound submersible pump back to the Engineroom once or twice.

It was brutal, let me tell you...

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Crazy Carl said:
I wanted a 2 year hitch with the Army College Fund. Recruiter said I'd hafta go combat arms for that. Artillery? Nah. Tanker? Nah. Infantry? Saw the pic of a squad of dudes un-assing a Huey in steel pots, with M16A1s & thought, "hey, that looks like fun"... Reckon I scored too high on the ASVAB, 'cos I got shoved into 11C & sent to a Mech unit.
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My brother was 11C he didn't fire a single mortar his first deployment.
 
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Crazy Carl said:
81's a piece of cake. Ground-mounting a 4-Deuce required 3 healthy dudes to pull the 220lb base plate off the side of the track.

Worst thing about mortars is that if yer "Light" Infantry, you hafta hump it all over the damned place & if yer Airborne, you gotta jump that shit in first. If yer Mech, you've got a several hundred pound gun system to deal with, with a 156lb gun tube to hump to the arms room, plus the added asspain of tracked vehicle maintenance.
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Didn't the mortars get thrown out of the plane in door bundles?
 
325rto said:
Didn't the mortars get thrown out of the plane in door bundles?
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81s can go either way. Pretty sure the 60s get jumped.

Ever been at Green Ramp when 3/4 ADA was jumping? No way I wanna exit with a friggin' Stinger strapped to me.
 
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Screw that. Fortunately I was Mech back then. I didn't go to jump school & get on status till just before I re-classed PSYOP. Felt bad for the speaker monkies that had to jump their loudspeaker systems.

We used to needle the Division guys by doing Battalion runs down Ardennes on Halloween, in costume & humping loudspeakers. I was circa '83/'84 Madonna one year (mini skirt & all), though nothing was funnier than a chubby 6' Puerto Rican in an evening gown or a 1SG in purple velour pimp suit & hat with fuzzy zebra dingle balls around the brim.

Pretty sure they hated us, but we always recruited a bunch on the rare occasion they'd get to strap-hang with us, especially on over the ramps or chopper blasts.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Wow! Sounds hard!

Lemme tell you 'bout submarine life, where I had to lug a 90 pound submersible pump back to the Engineroom once or twice.

It was brutal, let me tell you...

:D:D:D
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We did subs ops a few times in the Caribbean, can't recall the name of the boat. Did lock-in/lock-out, go to the surface, recon an island or two, reverse the process. That was about as much sub duty as I cared to have. But the boat crew treated us like we were rock stars lol.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Wow! Sounds hard!

Lemme tell you 'bout submarine life, where I had to lug a 90 pound submersible pump back to the Engineroom once or twice.

It was brutal, let me tell you...

:D:D:D
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Chuckman said:
We did subs ops a few times in the Caribbean, can't recall the name of the boat. Did lock-in/lock-out, go to the surface, recon an island or two, reverse the process. That was about as much sub duty as I cared to have. But the boat crew treated us like we were rock stars lol.
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When was it?

There are only a few SpecOps boats outfitted for the SEAL Delivery Vehicle. I was on the USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN-686) from 1997 to 2001.
 
Crazy Carl said:
Screw that. Fortunately I was Mech back then. I didn't go to jump school & get on status till just before I re-classed PSYOP. Felt bad for the speaker monkies that had to jump their loudspeaker systems.

We used to needle the Division guys by doing Battalion runs down Ardennes on Halloween, in costume & humping loudspeakers. I was circa '83/'84 Madonna one year (mini skirt & all), though nothing was funnier than a chubby 6' Puerto Rican in an evening gown or a 1SG in purple velour pimp suit & hat with fuzzy zebra dingle balls around the brim.

Pretty sure they hated us, but we always recruited a bunch on the rare occasion they'd get to strap-hang with us, especially on over the ramps or chopper blasts.
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I cant help but post it...
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Long_Hunter said:
I cant help but post it...
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My nephew was psy ops, in the reserve. Hated it, said all "real" SOF would put them in their place. If you were not jump-qual, it was worse. He got tired of the Army BS, put in a package for officer school for the Navy. I told him after 8 years switch MOSs but Navy is same shit, just different uniform.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
When was it?

There are only a few SpecOps boats outfitted for the SEAL Delivery Vehicle. I was on the USS L. Mendel Rivers (SSN-686) from 1997 to 2001.
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Were you ever WestCoast?

I flew on many LAs and even a few Sturgeons out of SD/Pearl.


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