Posted on 10/06/2013 12:31:20 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Me too. Until the next crisis. How’s that “good job security” work again?
As a side mote, I have reservations about the pending bill in Congress for paying me for not working last week. I think what I’ll do is end the year with 32 hours extra annual leave and just let them cancel it. That’s four days they don’t have to pay me for, and in any event, I’ll probably need to scramble to get caught up tomorrow and the next few weeks.
TC
Thanks for your spot-on reply. Nobody could have said it better. Thanks to NV and all other vets for their service to keep us safe and free.
I don’t know.
Bravo to your #13 !
Too Late
-PJ
I don’t know.
We’re preparing for our invasion of Jamaica.
You and I and the rest of us normal people.
NE - i. c. now
We know that Osama Obama has an endless contempt for our Armed Forces so this certainly isn’t happening because of concern for the nation’s security.Must be for PR purposes.
Well said Navy Vet, and thank you for your service!
I hope you retire a very wealthy veteran but unfortunately you won’t!
Bravo, well said. You beat me to it.
We may be related. { ;^)
Protect, frog and tom, thank you for the kind words. That type of thing sets my blood to boiling!
Barricading the interstate highways?
No blood for coff...
Wait a second, what am I saying?
Free the Jamaican Blue Mountain!
lol
I work at Keesler AFB in Biloxi. No word yet, but will show up tomorrow “just in case”. My “leadership” sucks so bad it is painful to know that our military folks have nobody with a downward sense of loyalty looking out for them. At any rate, since there have been stories posted about us getting retroactive pay even if we don’t work, I’m hoping I get to re-engage.
Just for your information, a military pension is an earned pension for services rendered as a military member over a specified period of time.
You don’t know if US Navy Vet is retired from the military or served for 8-10 years and then went to work for the government without a military pension or is retired and now working under contract as a government employee or as a contractor to Stratcom.
If retired and veterans with the experience and clearances were not hired in those government billets then someone new, without the experience, requiring expensive 100K plus clearances and years of training to get up to speed would have to be hired. We get more for our money by hiring military retirees than hiring new in most cases.
Military service to retirement is not guaranteed and retirement and benefits are not guaranteed even though the government has contractual agreements based on those in force at enlistment and reenlistment. It is a separate form of government service and the earned pension has no bearing on contractual employment as a civilian.
A military pension, when you are an E6-E9 or O4-O5 and force retired at 20 years is not going to support your family. It is usually a necessity to find employment on retirement and employment as a civilian government employee is no different, and separate from the military pension.
You think you’ve got it straight?
Enough of the double-dipping crap that has been going on for years.
never ended for me but it is good see staff returning to work.
The best I can glean from news sites, when Congress passed that bill to pay the military- they wrote it vaguely enough for some interpretation. The Justice dept. lawyers said no, but the Pentagon lawyers said yes- get back to work if you are needed for the mission. DHS is following suit...daughter works as a civilian for CG. We believe they will be deciding tomorrow who goes back to work and when.
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