Re: [OT] [HIST] Paymasters of 2183

This was mentioned in Haldeman's Forever War, but darned if I can
remember the details.
They all ended up pretty wealthy, though.

Thomas Barclay wrote:
> 
> Do you get paid for downtime? Time dilation
> would surely wreck your life back on any planet,
> so you'd think there would be some sort of
> premium, but paying the troopie for every
> minute of their sleep makes for a high cost per
> active minute....

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