2007-09-01 09:38:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
IF anyone actually DID induce their loved ones to enlist for the life-insurance, they are truly sick-individuals.
I'm insulted by your question, as I buried 73 friends during my 15 years of flying with the Navy.
Interestingly enough, back in the 1980's I couldn't GET life-insurance outside of SGLI due to my occupation of Helicopter Aircrew / Rescue Swimmer.
2007-09-01 10:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Considering that the death rate among enlistees isn't significantly higher than the death rate for civilians, that would be a pretty silly reason.
While death in the military may come from a conscious choices to risk life and limb protecting others, the military also does a pretty good job of looking out for their members, and keeping them from doing the really stupid things that tend to get young civilians killed.
So, if a wife or parent wanted to collect death benefits, the thing for them to do is to give a life insurance policy and a trip to Fort Lauderdale over spring break.
THAT place is dangerous.
2007-09-01 09:48:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No that is not the intention of it. It is in place to be competitive with the civilian market and to save soldiers money by providing them with an economical means of providing for there family if they are dead. It also was made because most insurers would not pay to soldiers lost in combat or war. It is the Military way of taking care of it's own. Because no matter what I am concerned with how my kids will do in the unlikely event that I die in a combat zone or back on the block in any ware USA. For your info a US soldier has a higher chance to be killed in the US than in combat in Iraq.
2007-09-01 09:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by SSGAllan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no amount of money could make me encourage my son to enlist, and he's work more than $250K to me.
Besides, no one can "make" another legally sane adult do anything they don't want to do. There may be one in a trillion unscrupulous people (women CAN enlist too, you know) who encourage their significant others to enlist for that reason, but I doubt that happens often, if at all.
2007-09-01 09:48:47 · answer #4 · answered by LolaC☼ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters the SGLI is NOT $250k. Where you came up with that is a mystery.
I also resent your implication. Take you "anti-patriotic" nic and start trouble some place else.
2007-09-01 09:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Seriously, where on earth did you come up with such an asinine question and why would you ever ask such a hateful and hurtful thing? Would you actually ever talk to someone who has lost a brother, sister, husband, wife or child that way to their face?
2007-09-01 10:43:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 10:12:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's $400,000. And NO it does not attract us. Infact we were married before it was this high. And back then I was enlisted too.
Military people are not the only ones who get life insurance.
Please stop being so rude!
2007-09-01 10:00:15 · answer #8 · answered by Just me 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So when is the poster of the question going to join up, hopefully his parents dont have to wait to long to collect the death benifit.
2007-09-01 09:47:01 · answer #9 · answered by conranger1 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I've yet to meet a person who didn't feel that their family member was worth much more than that alive.
2007-09-01 09:45:33 · answer #10 · answered by Critter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋