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Thursday, January 08, 2015
Military Payment Certificates and P38s
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
20070307 Military Payment Certificates and P38s
March 6th, 2007
I was actually researching, of all things, C-rations (the predecessor to MREs – Meals Ready to Eat) and the H-21 Shawnee (a tandem rotor flying banana helicopter 1949 - 1967,) when I came across this entry on military payment certificates. I had not seen one of these in ages.
Do they use Military Payments Certificates in
I also, on the same web site as I found the pictures of the MPCs, came across a picture of (what I remember being called in the Marines, 1971-1973, NOT deployed to
For the young folks out there who are not familiar with MPCs or the P38 can opener – see the attached below. It is from a web site titled, “Tall Comanche,” which appears to be a site for “Company C, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Calvary Division, Vietnam 1965 – 1972: http://www.tallcomanche.org/index.html
It is a pretty neat site – check it out…
The pictures of the MPCs and the can opener were found here:
http://www.tallcomanche.org/Stories_Things_Bits_and_Pieces.htm
MPC (Military Payment Certificate)
http://www.tallcomanche.org/Stories_Things_Bits_and_Pieces.htm#MPC
http://www.tallcomanche.org/Stories_Things_Bits_and_Pieces.htm#P38
Okay - did you carry yours with your dog tags, or did you carry yours on a key chain? For the uninitiated, this is a can opener - and its shown approximately actual size. From Mike Hayes, April 1969 to May 1970.
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