Of the plethora of government agencies, which do you suspect gives its employees the most paid time off? You may be surprised to learn it’s not the General Services Administration, International Revenue Service nor the Department of Veterans Affairs (though it came in second place). In fact, it’s an agency tasked with helping protect Americans from enemies both foreign and domestic – the Department of Defense. Tristyn Bloom of The Daily Caller reports that between 2011 and 2013, “over 9,000 DoD employees took ‘higher than average’ amounts of paid administrative leave, with breaks ranging from one month to two-and-a-half years,” according to the Government Accountability Office. “Altogether, these employees got 409,420 paid days off.” Moreover, “In second place for unusually high amounts of paid administrative leave is the Department of Veterans Affairs, with over 6,000 employees granted leave ranging from one month to three years, coming to a total of 330,055 days, followed by the Department of Agriculture, with over 2,000 employees racking up 120,212 days.” We’re pretty sure that amount of time off would be grounds for getting fired in most private sector jobs. More…