European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 Man handled mustering out pay dear yank before being shipped to this base i was stationed in Panama for a after a Short stay in the states i Drew this while i was Home in Boston my Uncle offered to sell me a half interest in his newsstand for the Way that business looks to i could be sure of a Good living when i get i Haven any Cash of my own and 1 never have approved of the idea of starting a business with borrowed i know that i will get in mustering out pay but that will not meet my is it True that i will get an extra in mustering out pay because this is my second tour of overseas duty Dominick Pedrazzani the maximum amount of mustering out pay a go can get is the number of times you May be shipped overseas chafe thai court martial fines Deai yank i would like to know what happens to All the Money collected by summary courts martial in this i have heard that the Money goes into our company hut another Story has it thai it is used by the theater command to pay 101 Large scale which of these stories is Correct Ieon harder neither Story is the Money goes to the Treasury of the United pro item letters to this department should Bea writers full serial number and military tuition payments dear yank i understand that the i Bill of rights fixes the maximum tuition which the veterans administration will pay for a Veteran at a i have been planning on going to a rather expensive engineering school and i know that the Tui Tion will be around a does the limit in the i Bill of rights mean that i will not be permitted to go to that particular or will some special arrangements be made for cases like mine Italy George Sebastian b the fact that the school you select charges More than a year will not bar you from going ahead with your you have to pay the difference Between the and the schools fees out of your own if you can afford the extra charges you can attend any approved no matter How expensive it May wound stripes dear yank i am a Veteran of world War i and was wounded in both that War and the present i have been wearing a wound Stripe for my world War i but when i tried to add another one for my recent my co said he says that wound stripes for the present War have not been is that right Bur to t James Brown Al that s wound chevrons May Only be worn for world War i wounds and not for wounds received in the present War upor 55 a combat infantry dear yank we Call this a dirty about 30 of us have just returned from combat infantry duty Over been reclassified and thrown into the air of us were wounded and others Are just not fit for further overseas what we Are Yelling about is our combat infantry Why should we lose it now that were in the air corps names withhold you should not lose your combat infantry pay unless you Are placed on flight combat infantry pay does not Stop when a Man leaves his combat unit unless he is assigned to the medics or the corps of or is placed on flight pay or loses his badge for failure to perform satisfactorily in ground combat against the if you Are not covered by any of these you should immediately bring these provisions to the attention of your authority for this can be found in we u peacetime enlistments dear yank will you please Settle this argument for us was there once a oneyear enlistment in the Reg ular army if when was it in Force Philippines Charles Browne there oneyear enlistments in the regular army were authorized by the National defense act of this act remained in effect until the outbreak of the present the oneyear period applied to first enlistments reenlist ments were for three Page 16