What losing the war on terror looks like

[RadioPatrol]

...that one; link?

it was in the Wash Times Yesterday ............

 

[PsyOps]

Considering that positions under study by FTE in 1988 totaled 17,249 with 12,000 being from DOD wouldn't indicate to me that "just about every job held by a green-suiter" was outsourced. I will say that 1988 was the highest study year and such A-76 studies had dropped down to only 441 DOD FTE in 1993 and then climbed to peak in 1997 when DOD placed 25,255 positions under study. The huge increase in study positions, in my mind, were fueled more by the Clinton Administration’s National Performance Review, The Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (P.L. 103-355), The Federal Acquisition Reform Act (P.L. 104-106), and The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-106). A-76 was, at the time, merely the process for how the studies were conducted.

Potayto potauto.

 

[Larry Gude]

Oh...

it was in the Wash Times Yesterday ............

...well then it CAN'T be true.

 

[PsyOps]

It's not fair and the bigger issue is an obligation to the soldier, after serving his country and spending 1--15 years of the prime of his life and being 35 years old with a skill set, fighting, that doesn't convey real good to the real world. Certainly, many military jobs prepare you for moving into the private sector, but if you're a tip of the spear type who actually shoots and blows things up and so forth, it's not good for you to go be a security guard for $30k nor is it good for the military to lose that institutional memory and experience.

Please don't forget that they volunteered. They know the arrangement going in. The vast majority of military folks come out with training far superior to anything you would get with a college degree. That’s probably the largest benefit over pay and other benefits; training and security clearance. Security clearance is worth so much to contractors that they will (in many instances) hire someone with a clearance over someone with a degree, certifications and no clearance. They know they can’t place someone without a clearance, but can with one and train them.

The reality is, every trooper knows when they sign that dotted line (I know, such a cliché) what’s in store for them. That said, I want to see our military folks (especially the enlisted corps) see better pay. It hasn’t been since Reagan that the military received equitable and consistent pay raises to that of the civilian sector and inflation. But every member needs to take advantage of the 100% tuition assistance to expand their training. This was something that wasn’t available to me when I was in. They have so much more today than when I was in.

 

[Larry Gude]

That is 100%...

Please don't forget that they volunteered. They know the arrangement going in. The vast majority of military folks come out with training far superior to anything you would get with a college degree. That’s probably the largest benefit over pay and other benefits; training and security clearance. Security clearance is worth so much to contractors that they will (in many instances) hire someone with a clearance over someone with a degree, certifications and no clearance. They know they can’t place someone without a clearance, but can with one and train them.

The reality is, every trooper knows when they sign that dotted line (I know, such a cliché) what’s in store for them. That said, I want to see our military folks (especially the enlisted corps) see better pay. It hasn’t been since Reagan that the military received equitable and consistent pay raises to that of the civilian sector and inflation. But every member needs to take advantage of the 100% tuition assistance to expand their training. This was something that wasn’t available to me when I was in. They have so much more today than when I was in.

...true, all of it, but it does not lesson and in fact, in my mind, increases the obligation to use them as wisely and effectively as possible AND to do your damndest to look after them and take care of them.