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Good info.

Most all of them were unemployed layabouts. Heady had only been back from Vietnam for about 2 weeks. He was still shell shocked and did it on a PTSD bender on a whim. Mac was unemployed as well. Already a felon his work prospects weren’t great. McCoy wasn’t a teacher btw. He was a full time student with a tiny GI Bill stipend. His wife was the breadwinner. You’re thinking of McCoy being a Sunday school teacher. LaPoint was a layabout H was an electrician by trade. Fisher was a house painter when he wasn’t committing frauds Francis Goodell was active military. Helicopter crew in Vietnam. Had recently returned from a tour there and was AWOL from Fort Riley. Everett Holt was a part-time student at Indiana University and part-time postal worker. Stanley Speck was a cab driver Frank Sibley was a former airline pilot and MAY have flown with Air America (still trying to confirm that) Billy Hurst was a real life Pvt Pyle and was drummed out of the Marine Corps for being too fat. Unemployed at the time. Merlyn St. George was unemployed, but had been an insurance salesman Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow were both selling weed for income Michael Green worked in a parking garage

Using "US" or "American" currency doesn't make Cooper Canadian. it only suggests he was previously outside the US. It isn't a citizenship clue, it is a location clue. Could be as simple as a Vietnam vet. Did Ryan claim the stair light came on when the stairs open?? That is not true,, the stair light comes on when the lever is moved from the up/lock detent not when the stairs move. It is a safety feature.. Do not take off/fly with the light on as the airstairs are not locked up. They go out when the lever is placed into the up/lock position.

I made that post a while back on Reddit...my take on the "negotiable American currency" thing is that Cooper at some point was stationed overseas during WWII. The vast majority of the available mentions of it on Newspapers.com are in the 15ish years from near the end of the war up until 1960ish; it's more likely to me that he said it and served in WWII or that the person who put those words in his mouth served in WWII. I bristle at the suggestion that it definitely points to a point of origin in the States for Cooper or that it means he was somehow not American as it's something that people were saying in sort of banal (in reference to the cost of a baseball game in the 1950s, etc.) way in specifically American sources somewhat regularly.