The director came out of human resources. A “career manager”. In other words, a bean counter. Why can’t they pick someone from the operational side to run it...someone who has carried the gun and the real accountability. I was in a sales organization for 30 years, the people who ran it all started as a salesman. They knew the day to day rigors. Then a CEO put his buddy into the top slot...a lawyer.,.who didn’t know a sale from a sail. 6 years later the company was sold, it was failing (the lawyer made a pile of money in the way out). Now the company no longer exists. My point is, put people in charge who have personally experiences day to day accountability...not someone from human resources that thinks they know what’s good for the workers. In this case she headed up training? No wonder we have a problem if the secret service personnel are trained by an HR person.
The first, maybe the only, qualification for employment by the Obama administration is the willingness to mouth the most preposterous BS to justify whatever the WH says is the position of the moment and to be able to shamelessly spout the opposite the next minute when the WH position changes.
This is SOP for the beltway. Look around. They've got people writing regulations on gunsmithing that have never turned a tap in their lives. The idea that you should actually have experience in whatever it is you're managing is foreign to them.