Selling insurance to soldiers

Thanks to Agent 3 for this little story...

Corporal Boulanger was assigned to the Army induction centre, where he was to advise new soldiers about their government benefits, especially their Group Life Insurance plan.

It wasn’t long before the lieutenant in charge of the centre noticed that Cpl. Boulanger had almost a 100% record for insurance sales, which had never happened before. Rather than ask about this, the lieutenant stood in the back of the room and listened to Boulanger’s sales pitch.

Boulanger explained the basics of the GLI plan to the new recruits, and then said, “If you have GLI and go to Afghanistan and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don’t have GLI, and you go to Afghanistan and get killed, the government has to pay only a maximum of $6,000.”

“Now,” he concluded, “which bunch do you think they are going to send to Afghanistan first?”