[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

[Fred Schneider]

I don't think the U. S. military ever rode the civilian buses very much.   

Before I left the USA, I was detailed to a finance office at Fort Dix to type up payroll vouchers for servicemen returning from active duty in Germany.  I spent several days at that job to kill time before being sent up to Fort Hamilton to be put on the ship to got overseas.

What did I learn?   That we were paying most of the servicemen we discharged for the vacation time they could have taken in  Europe.   Perhaps 90% came home having taken absolutely none of their earned vacation time in Europe.    I think that suggested they walked to the nearest bar or NCO club to drink but didn't see any of the nation they were in which they were quartered for two years.   

I also learned I didn't want to be like them and come home and be paid for leave I could have used to see Europe free of charge.   


On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

> On 4 December 2010 23:38, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
>> "K-town" used to have about 200,000 which was 100,000 American sericemen, dependents, retirees and 100,000 Germans.   After we started chopping, I felt rather sorry because they didn't have a congressman to run to.   It wasn't just the military.   One of their biggest factories was the GM engine plant for Opals.
> 
> It's 150,000 now if you include the 50,000 military folks, but I don't
> think they ride the buses very much.
> 
>> You work for GM?
> 
> No, for a German computer science research institute.
> 
> -j.
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