Show PAY FOR MARINES DROPPED BY PLANES how the leathernecks Leather necks in nicaragua get money washington there would be no pay days in nicaragua for manyi many of the united states marines but for or the airplane 1 at isolated outposts out in tho the bush looking for bandits nests nesta and in danger of being stuck UP at any time by outlaws there Is one bright spot every four our weeks la in the lives of the leathernecks leather necks this to is when the paymasters plane bovera finvers overhead and drops the months pay roll with their money all in small change tile the marines at the first opportunity go out foraging in the native settle ments tor for chickens and eggs the marine corps paymasters have been confronted with an old problem ever since they have been in nicaragua how flow to deliver money promptly to scattered detachments in isolated localities where the ordinary means of communication are difficult and dangerous and sometimes next to impossible the men must be paid promptly or their morals and military effi efficiency clency might suffer the officers in command accomplish this by bombing their outlying patrols and stations not with X T N T but with currency when funds are ready for delivery the paymaster concerned ascertains I 1 from the operations of the aircraft squadron when an air patrol la in scheduled to cover the stations for which the payments are intended the packages containing the currency are then delivered to the flying field receipts being given by the operations of officer fleer if in managua otherwise by the pilot stations make their identity known to tile the pilots by panel the air liaison ground code governing the methods of communication between station and plane if la in doubt as to identity the pilot first drops a message the packages of currency ani are tied to dropping sticks one inch square by fifteen inches long with a cloth streamer the plane files within a few feet of the panel and drops the package which ordinarily lands within a few feet of the mark |