Re: Soldiers pay and narcotics?

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:43:44 -0000

Hmmmm, whatever the nominal pay is, I have the suspicion that the actual payments may be erratic and in arrears. After all, shipping large amounts of coin across Prax to some dusty town on the edge of nowhere is risky, and from a bureaucratic perspective wasteful--why teh soldiers aren't willing to just have their wages put on account for when they return is completely impossible to understand from a civilized perspective, given that the army gives the lodging and food. So I'd guess that the average trooper actually sees more coin from bribes and shake downs than from formal pay.

But that is just my cycnical view of things.

--Bryan

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