Infantrymen Get Raises
In Pay Boost

Combat Infantrymen and those who wear the expert infantryman’s badge won pay boosts when President Roosevelt signed a bill granting increases of 10 dollars to the former and 5 dollars to the latter, retroactive to last Jan. 1st 1944.

The bill makes all combat ground personnel eligible for the extra pay, but as yet the WD has not set up a system comparable to the awarding of combat and expert infantrymen badges in any other branch.
Officials have said the 75 percent of the Army’s infantrymen will qualify for the pay increase.