re: #107 Decatur Deb

A normal selection of 1s, 5s, 10s and 20s would fill a hell of a truck. A mere 3.5 million dollars takes up 2.5 Army duffel bags, weighs a couple hundred pounds, and makes a very poor cushion in a pick-up bed. Adventures in the Fighting Finance Corps.

Back when the Army would pay their enlisted in cash, there was a system of which denominations dollar bills to give to each soldier.

If the payroll officer followed the system, he would have exactly the right number of bills in the correct denominations. Many in the Army viewed that as almost magic.

If he didn’t… well.. everybody found out very quickly who couldn’t follow a simple plan.