Posted on Aug 28, 2019
What was the cadet stipend rate when you went through ROTC?
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I was a scholarship cadet. My father was a coal miner - I was so poor that my PMS bought me 2 sweatshirts and two pair of jeans to wear to class. When I was a senior my PMS actually bought my senior ring out of his own pocket.
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LTC Jason Mackay Thank you sir! I think you just found the sources I was looking for on this. That makes sense. Thank you again!
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LTC Jason Mackay
2d Lt (Join to see) - if you follow changes to section 209, that's where it will be. I believe the others have confused their drill pay withnthis allowance.
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LTC Jason Mackay looking at it, I'm able to track changes to the lower levels of pay, but when it expands back to a range of pay values from a fixed amount for everyone, I can't find the updates for the upper value. Do you think I'm missing it, or am I perhaps being referenced to a different title and section, but can't follow it? It's almost like I need to talk to someone specializing in US federal law to decode what I'm reading.
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LTC Jason Mackay
2d Lt (Join to see) - there was the wording on the DFAS site that said the SECDEF is authorized to set the rate and gave a range.
Id honestly stop digging and request the info from DFAS, they're paying it.
Id honestly stop digging and request the info from DFAS, they're paying it.
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I was a ROTC cadet in 1978. When I started college I signed up for ROTC and was placed in the Junior class as I was prior service. The stipend was $100 a month .
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In 75-77 as a non scholarship junior and senior I received $100/month. Plus I was getting $220/month on the GI bill. Rest was part time temp jobs here and there.
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It's been a while, but I think we got $75 (before taxes) at USNA...ended up being just enough to buy a burger, shake, and a movie each Saturday for a month. Not to complain of course; we had three square a day, room and board, and hella-uniforms (ok, we did end up having to cough up some dough for those later). The big "scam" they ran on us was the "Midstore Card" and the "Career Start Loan"... that snagged more a few of us over four years.
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I was an ROTC cadet from 1981-1985. My stipend was $100/month for the entire 4 years.
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$150/month. I was in ROTC from 1988-1992. Fairly sure the rate was uniform across Juniors and Seniors but I can't be sure. If you were an SMP Cadet you got the E5 BAH rate as well. I think, even when accounting for inflation over the years, the current rate is slightly more generous.
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The stipend is certainly more generous. BAH added on would significantly impact the total though. Thank you sir!
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COL Jason Woodford
The E5 pay may have been drill pay, vice "BAH" pay. Probably mixed those up. Been a while...
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Oh and I was commissioned Army Infantry but switched to the Air Force Security Forces after 15 years. Good times
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I was commissioned in 1983 from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ROTC program where I was a SMP cadet. I believe the stipend was $140 per month.
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COL David Turk
I lived a few blocks from that school in the late 50’s early 60’s. Went to the elementary school on the far corner (Hartford). There was a Woman’s college on the other far corner.
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I contracted in 2000. I want to say it was $300 for AS300's and $400 for AS400's and anyone in a STEM program allowed to be in the 700 club.
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in 2011 it was $400/mo for seniors. At least for the Navy, anyway. I think it was $250/mo for juniors, $200/mo for sophomores, and $100/mo for freshmen? Something like that. It wasn't much.
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In 1968-69 it was $110/month; only for scholarship students. That was a big deal then. Minimum wage was $0.90/hr. I was thrilled I made $1.25/hr at my part time job.
2d Lt (Join to see), your current rate is more than my basic pay when I was commissioned in 1969!
2d Lt (Join to see), your current rate is more than my basic pay when I was commissioned in 1969!
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