Good military/government joke...

[Martoch]

You military folks (including yours truly) will really appreciate this one...the rest of you may not find it quite as funny.


Airman Jones was assigned to the military induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised.
Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the back of the
room and listened to Jones' sales pitch.

Jones explained the basics of the GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said: "If you have GI Insurance and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have GI insurance, and you go into battle and get killed, the government only has to pay a maximum of $6000.

Now," he concluded, "which group do you think they are going to send into battle first?"

[Martoch]

Us government workers can appreciate the, how should I say it, "thriftiness" of the government. You owe them money, they take it out of your pay...they owe you money, "um, just keep checking with finance, it should be there soon...if not, just keep checking".

Hey, Martoch. any of yer Buds in AF sell insurance?

Just curious.

[Brainchild]

LOL..

[no1_vern]

So TRUE.

[kenyg]

Yep - the government (dept. of the army) once flew me commerical from hawaii to arlington, va And put me in a hotel- to tell me that I'd been overpaid $600 4yrs earlier. I saw the cost of my tickets and the hotel - I says to them.. so you spent $1000 to collect $600? - Mutt & Jeff the two investigative boys didn't have an answer for that.

They were doing an investigation into the misuse of gov't monies - and asked me all kinds of questions relating to the colonel's finances.. me "uh, guys, the extent of my relationship with the Col. was - Good morning Sir".

But sure enough... they docked my pay $60 a month for 10 months.

Ken

[Martoch]

Originally posted by kenyg
But sure enough... they docked my pay $60 a month for 10 months.

Ken

You gotta be kidding me!!!

[RADAR1797]

Yeah the AF took $2000 over the course of 2 months for scholarship money they gave me in college. Well the problem was that I was suppose to get that money, but did they try to contact me and ask why I was paid? No of course not some government civilian in Denver thought I didn't deserve that money and took it. I tracked down who made the decision to take away my money and I let her have it. She was bawling her eyes out and asking for forgiveness when I was done. Needless to say I was repaid.

-RADAR

[fritz the cat]

An Airman who worked in my department once got a paycheck for ten cents. Of course he got the rest of his pay as soon as he pointed out the error. The kick was, he framed and hung up on the wall his ten cent paycheck, three months later, the First Sargent came looking for him, seems the first shirt was contacted by Finance Headquarters because they couldn't close out their books untill my friend cashed his ten cent paycheck!