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Posted by Wardner on September 04, 2005 at 20:35:51 from (4.154.244.210):
In Reply to: Marine Corps. posted by jfp on September 04, 2005 at 10:13:00:
I suppose this is a joke. Anyway, I was a USMC company clerk in a grunt company (I-3/4) in Nam. Additional death benefit policies were sold by private insurance carriers back in the states before the Marine shipped out. Salesmen were allowed on base and I thought that was odd. I think these guys got on base by virtue of their retired Marine identification cards that allowed them to shop at the PX. They would hit the barracks after hours. There was no Service Record Book entry for insurance coverage. The monthly premiums were handled by filling out an allotment ticket and forwarding it to the disbursement office. The CO didn't have to sign it and never knew.
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