How did they ever handle all that cash?
>>64378619Well first they brough the money on the ship, then they got a bunch of guys to count out the money, and everyone else formed a line to get paid.Hope that helps.
No money
>>64378619Did they really get paid in cash? What if the boat sank and all your savings went down with it?
>>64378675Sucks to suck.
>>64378619Them niggas looking zesty af.
>>64378675If the boat sank they had more immediate issues
The sailors' unspent money naturally turned to gambling, and was taken by Richard Nixon.
>>64378675Motivated damage control crews
the NDAA passed the senate tonight and all news sources say they want to pass it by the end of the calendar year. wtf is the point of funding a military if you have a big ass 3 month gap where nothing can happen?
>>64378619The bongs cheated by using envelopes with the recipient's name on it.>>64378759>concern postingGet the fuck out of here
>>64378797Weird Royal Navy tradition: officers and NCOs get handed their money, ratings hold out their hats and have the money placed on top.
>>64378797I am concerned you fucking jelqist
>>64378811>officers and NCOs get handed their moneyMarines too, but that's because they don't take their hats off.
>>64378751>and was taken by Richard Nixon.Ah! A fellow knower of things.
>>64378821Thats because the traditional role of Marines was making sure the ratings dont fucking mutiny. So they get treated like humans.
>>64378830Homie, the marines keep their hats on during situations when naval officers have to remove theirs. It's not some anti-mutiny thing.
>>64378811Probably because back in ye olde sailing ship dayes the sailors had tar covered hands from climbing ropes.
>>64378884Ah, like why they salute with the palm facing in. That makes sense.
>>64378675Sadly, during WW2 the dream of a practical shipboard debit card reader was still decades away from being realized.
>>64378619Fun fact. Modern day pirates basically rob the captured ship's safe containing the crews' pay and then leave. They only rarely commandeer the entire ship to blackmail the ship owners.
>>64378922I'd fuck that goblina.
>>64379155wtf man
>>64378811>>64378884But why on top? It'd make a lot more sense to flip it over and toss it in.
>>64378922Why not have a ledger system? Theres a master ledger when you buy something it gets deducted from the ledger.
>>64378922It's almost like prison and commissary
>>64378758Kek
>>64378811UK navy is insane there was this whole exposer. My god they are gay and fucked up. Knife fights defining beer from scrotum sacks. The army is also kind of gay there was this whole naked fight they would do. The military seems to be very gay in general.
Why no scrip?
>>64378821>>64378830Cool
>>64379169Buy ammo.
>>64379215Mining towns and company stores dont tend to sail from country to country, and the local hookers probably wont take scrip from a company they never heard of.
>>64378619me? no need to pay me, i do it for free
>>64379170Probably because that's associated with beggars
>>64379155I'm sure that many did
>>64378922Utah 5s are definitely Navy 10s.
>>64378619I think back in the day you had an option for the money to be routed into an account. Also uniform inspections were common on pay days, and the money was always kept under armed guard.
>>64379381RCN here: there are a few stories of ships going to Carribbean islands in the 80s/early 90s and paying assorted sex workers in Canadian Tire money. So, in a sense, this can work, as long as the scrip looks like currency.>Missed opportunity for Crappy Tire to open stores in the Caribbean
>>64378922god damn this brings backs memoriesi used these to pay for so many hookers in thailand and the philippines
>>64381729>sex workersWhores. You politically correct cocksucker.
>>64381750Whores, strippers, traps. Whatever wasfancied a drunk RCN killick or AB, unless it was the Iroquois in Dublin back when Ireland was poor as fuck in the 80s.>Be my cousin's husband, before he met her.>Be a 5'4" French-Canadian stoker of the 280 mafia.>Be a known womanizer that once dated two sisters at the same time.>Go to port visit in Dublin>Locals learn about a ship full of French-Canadians coming for a visit.>Because French-Canadians are Catholic, the locals arrange a meet and greet with their mostly redhead daughters and the sailors to (hopefully) marry them away from poverty.From what he told me, a lot of fucking was done, a few of his crewmates met their (first) wives there and probably that a lot of half-French Canadian kids were conceived that time.
>>64378619>every US ship sunk has loads of 1930-40's dollars on board
>>64378675As long as you could prove you were on the ship somehow it shouldn't be an issue to pay the sailors again.
>>64381778>>Be a known womanizer that once dated two sisters at the same time.Together or as a cheater?
>>64379170The inside of their hat was also probably filthy.
>>64378619All ships have a safe for cash.Civil and military ships have to pay port fees, fuel and water, provisions, dock workers. Nowadays a lot is bank transfers, but in the 3rdWorld there is always a need for cash payments.Navy in WW2 most sailors would have a mandatory allotment where X% of their wage is going into a bank ashore to support their wives or parents etc, and the shipboard cash pay was just pocketmoney for minor purchases at the ships store or they'd get a pay parade for drinking money once they were at a port.>>64378675A sailors ID was their paybook that recorded how much they'd been paid and when. You could usually just leave amounts of your pay in your book 'uncollected' like a defacto bank. If you were keeping bulk cash in your seabag instead of in your paybook or a bank and it sank its gone.
>>64378688That's what a man looks like. If you find it zesty, then I'm afraid you are the one applying the zest.
>>64378675 Not 100% sure but I bet you could have them hold it if you didn’t want the physical cash….
>>64382025I was in the Army back before we changed to electronic transfers for pay.Every fortnight the Battalion Pay clerk and the Duty Officer would go to the bank and collect a big trunk of cash&coins, escorted by 4 guys on duty as armed guards. The ammo was in a mag in a pocket and could only be loaded and fired on the officers orders. >there was a holdup once where they quickly worked out it was 3 ex-soldiers because they just pointed one shotty at the officer knowing nobody else could fire or do anything without his order - one of the minor problems with military discipline, but it made the list of suspects shorterThe clerks would then calculate everybody's pay amount minus any debts for lost kit or charges, extra payments for field or special duties etc, and minus any preset allotments that were credited to your bank account, put it in little envelopes and the guards would escort it out to the company clerks, and a company officer would run a pay parade like the picture.March in halt salute extend hand, envelope opened and counted over, 'pay correct sir', salute march out... then run the gauntlet of platoon funds, raffletickets, and cunts you owed money to from last week, then take the remainder to the boozer.I can remember hearing 2 wives talking about how much their husbands take home pay went up under the new e-pay system because they usually only saw half of it after he got home from the boozer.
>>64381948Cheated on each other. In Halifax in the 80s. Their brother learned about it and tried to get him beaten and his motorcycle destroyed but the cheated-on sister called it off.Once, in January '08, when I was serving on the HMCS Glace Bay as an A-Ticket for two weeks, we had a problem with our Z-Drive (condensation in the lube oil) and the MOG5 chief eng came to Yarmouth. An old 280 French-Canadian stoker. So of course I asked the question:>Do you know of *his name*>He answers by *his first name*, Peverd?>Yes.I then wondered how the HELL he got that nickname... despite me knowing the Dublin and the two sisters stories...
