Shutdown Paycheck

Dec 29, 2018 — Comic #198

Two Coasties wonder, “So if we don’t get paid because of the shutdown, what are we going to do for money?” “No clue. How many other jobs pay people who are good at chasing down boats and seizing their cargo?” The next panel shows them dressed as pirates with a cutlass and Jolly Roger, with “U.S. Coast Guard” on their cutter’s hull spray-painted to read “U.S. Coast Pirates.”

Unfortunately for people in the Coast Guard, most of the things we’ve been trained to do are illegal in the private sector

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So if we don’t get paid because of the shutdown, what are we going to do for money? / No clue. I mean, how many other jobs pay people who are good at chasing down boats and seizing their cargo? / [hull: “U.S. Coast Pirates”]

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