107.70 per month, or $37,292.40 per year. The actual salary is much more than that, as 2nd lieutenant pay includes a housing allowance, based on the cost of living in the geographic area where assigned. Army pay
between Japanese culture and the American mind-set). Valentine’s high salary ($3.9 million a year), and the high salaries of several people who Valentine had brought into his inner circle at the ball club, contributed to the Marines’ top brass feeling they were justified in forcing him ou...