SPECIAL PAY FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, AND VETERINARY CORPS OFFICERS. Medical and Dental Corps officers are eligible for special pay as follows: Less than 2 years active service$100 monthly; 2-6 years of active service-$150 monthly; 6-10 years active service-$200 monthly; over 10 years active service-$250 monthly. Veterinary Corps officers are entitled to a flat rate of $100.00 per month special pay, regardless of years served.

FOREIGN DUTY PAY. When enlisted members are on duty outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska, elsewhere than in a territory or possession of the United States of which they are residents, they are entitled to foreign duty pay as shown in the accompanying table.

FOREIGN DUTY PAY
Monthly

$2.57 daily if rations in kind are not available, and $3.42 daily under emergency conditions where no Government messing facilities are available.

Quarters. Officers and warrant officers without dependents are furnished individual rooms in bachelor officers' quarters ("BOQ"). Enlisted members without dependents are quartered in barracks; there are usually individual rooms for noncommissioned officers. All personnel with dependents are either provided with family quarters, including utilities, or paid quarters allowances. The amounts paid are shown in the accompanying tables, except that enlisted personnel without dependents are paid $51.30 monthly when government quarters are not available.

QUARTERS ALLOWANCES

With dependents

Monthly

Grade

Rate

Grade

Rate

Pay grade

Without dependents

O-5

136.80

102.60

RESPONSIBILITY PAY. Officers in grades O-3, 0-4, O-5, and O-6 may receive extra pay when serving in assignments of unusual responsibility. This extra pay is limited to 10% of all officers in grades O-4, O-5, and O-6 and to 5% of all officers in grade O-3. The amounts of extra pay are $50 monthly for grades O-3 and O-4, $100 monthly for grade O-5, and $150 monthly for grade O-6.

PROFICIENCY PAY. Recent legislation provides proficiency pay for enlisted men in either of two ways. First, he may be advanced to any grade and receive the pay but not the rank of the higher grade, or second, three proficiency ratings P-1, P-2, and P-3, paying monthly rates of up to $50, $100, and $150 respectively are authorized. Only one of the methods may be used throughout a particular service; the Army is to use the P-1, P-2, P-3 ratings, at less than the maximum rates authorized. P-1 payments of $30 per month began 1 November 1958.

ALLOWANCES. Subsistence. Officers and warrant officers receive a subsistence allowance of $47.88 monthly. Enlisted personnel receive $1.10 daily if they are authorized to mess separately,

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granted to persons on duty in oversea areas where living costs are higher than those in the United States. They are based on information submitted by the commander of the oversea area, and are reviewed semiannually.

Travel and Transportation Allowances. When Army personnel are ordered away from their home station on public business they are entitled to transportation at Government expense, or to transportation allowances in lieu thereof if they pay their own expenses. These allowances may include payment or reimbursement for meals, quarters, and travel expenses. The rates are specified in Joint Travel Regulations. If the orders direct a permanent change of station, officers, and enlisted members in grades E-4 (with more than 4 years service) or higher, are entitled to transportation of dependents and household goods at Government expense. A dislocation allowance, amounting to one month's quarters allowance, is provided on permanent change of station to members with dependents; this is designed to compensate for incidental expenses incurred in relocating a household.

SERVICES GIVEN BY POSTS AND INSTALLATIONS. Army personnel are entitled to receive various services from the post or installation at which they are stationed, in the fields of medical care, shopping facilities, education and training, religion, and recreation. Responsibility for providing such services rests with the post commander.

Medical Care. Army personnel and their dependents are entitled to medical care. On this topic see chapter 15. For medical care of veterans see chapter 23.

Shopping Facilities. A military installation constitutes a community separate from nearby civilian towns or cities. To provide convenient facilities where Army members may purchase items needed in daily living, commissaries and post exchanges are operated. Food and groceries are sold by the commissary; the post exchange carries a selection of items, ranging from toilet articles to small electric appliances. In oversea areas, post exchange facilities are somewhat comparable to those of a department store.

Education, Military Personnel. In addition to professional training, the Army provides its members with facilities and incentives for continuing their general education. For details see chapter 8.

Education of Dependents. In the United States, schools are operated on Army posts whenever enough children of Army personnel are living there to warrant it. These schools are part of the public school system of the neighboring area, and therefore are not run by the Army. In oversea areas, however, the Army provides primary and secondary schooling, or furnishes financial assistance in payment for it, if the Secretary of the Army finds that the existing schools in the area are inadequate.

Religious Facilities. There are ample chapel facilities at all military installations, and chaplains are available to minister to the spiritual needs of followers of the Christian and Jewish faiths. (See also "The Chaplains," chapter 2.)

Recreation. Through its service clubs, libraries, gymnasiums, athletic programs, theaters, craft shops, and other related facilities, the Army Special Services sponsors a wide variety of recreational activities, which contribute to the physical and mental well-being of Army personnel and their families and help to create a healthy environment for the Army community.

The service club is the military "community center" for enlisted members, their families, and their guests. In their programs, service clubs include dances, parties, hobby and interest groups, games and tournaments, informal soldier shows, soldier choruses, package shows, contests, forums, and related activities. Other services sometimes given are the provision of materials for wrapping packages and gifts; long-distance telephone service; information on events of interest occurring on the post or in nearly civilian communities; and often free tickets to such events.

At posts and installations in the United States, and in noncombatant areas overseas, there are excellent libraries which provide advisory guidance, references, and hospital and field library service. Many of them also have facilities for lectures, reading clubs,

music hours, and the like. Branch libraries, deposit collections, and bookmobiles serve persons at a distance from the main library. In combat and maneuver areas and at small isolated stations the Army seeks to provide enough books and magazines for everyone, with something for every taste.

Gymnasiums and other facilities are available for individual and group athletics. Organized athletics include football, soccer, touch football, baseball, basketball, boxing, track and field, swimming and diving, golf, tennis, and bowling. Competition is with outside teams and also on an intra-unit basis. Outstanding athletes may be selected to represent the United States in international competitions, such as the Olympic and Pan-American Games.

Post theaters show motion pictures regularly. They are often used to present professional entertainment units provided by the USO, particularly in oversea areas. Shows are also put on by soldier actors in the theaters, and in recreation halls, hospital wards, sports arenas, field houses, and service clubs. They range from the informal type, such as quiz shows, jam sessions, and quartet parades, to more elaborate affairs such as variety shows, plays, music festivals, and musical comedies.

etc.

Crafts shops offer equipment, tools, and instruction in such activities as automobile repair, radio repair, photography, woodworking, model building, leather craft, ceramics, plastics, Many materials are available at cost. Accompanying tables list the numbers of recreation facilities of various types available in the Army as of 30 June 1957 and the recreational activities that took place during the three months ending 30 June 1957.

Open Messes. At each Army installation of any size there are an Officers' Open Mess, available to all officers stationed there, and a Noncommissioned Officers' Open Mess for the higher enlisted grades. Open messes ordinarily serve food to members and their families at reasonable rates, and sponsor dances and other social activities. They are self-sustaining, like a civilian country club, although membership fees are usually much lower.