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Fun! I miss sledding and snow tubing.
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"....My son works for a contractor within the Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence agency which operates under the NNSA...."
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Sorry to say this, but...
He is not an employee of the government nor is he a GS series employee. He is under a Contractor that is contracted by the Government to provide personnel.
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His Degee is in Landscape Architecture, I'm rather sure he actually has had little education in any of the Nuclear sciences. Nor the Regulations governing them. If he does it was by means of current OJT.
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Prior to his 'contractor placement' I would be surprised that he would have any experience in Nuclear handling of fissionable material.
Being his job out of college was remodeling landscape at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Granted he is well educated with also holding masters in business management. And an intelligent individual. Just not sure how a Contractor got him employed for a position with any regard to Nuclear material handling with absolutly negligable experience.
Regarding all this, I know for fact that when 'cuts' are to be made that contact personal are typically the first of groups to go.
You know that I have many years of exprience in this area.
First go contract, non GS, then non- classified and lastly those higher GS classified as "Essential".
To be truthful, I would be very surprised if when the axes are weilded he would be gone.
And I am sorry for what is happening. But you do know I know what I am saying. Myself retired after many years with the DOD as a GS15, step six.
The USAF Command Engineer
I wish him the best of LUCK.
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"...In a Friday evening statement, Department of Energy press secretary Ben Dietderich said, "Less than 50 employees were dismissed from the NNSA." The targeted workers were relatively new employees in their probationary period, during which they don't have civil service firing protections...."
QUOTED, from your referenced article.
QUOTED, from your referenced article.
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Morning, gonna be a nasty week. Tues, Wed, Thurs mornings, around zero or below with 30 below wind chills. 8 inches of snow on Tuesday.
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You know nothing about what he does. He's a project manager within a contractor group that's been under contract with the DNN, Department of Nuclear Nonproliferation, since the 70's. They work closely with and are directed by the federal employees within the DNN. They had not cut any contract positions yet. The designation of probationary employee within the federal government also encompasses lateral moves and experienced high knowledge well trained employees. What he does doesn't require knowledge of nuclear. They are preventing countries that we want to remain non nuclear from getting nuclear capabilities... prevention of the movement of nuclear material across borders, etc.
His masters in business degree focused heavily in project management. He worked in a project management position prior to moving to DC and holds multiple certifications for project management post degree training. He also holds highest security clearance available within the DOE, a Q clearance. He had to get that before he could even be in the building. He told me late this evening that they reinstated everyone under the DNN due to national security risks. And there were well more than the 50 reported.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firings-nnsa
https://www.voanews.com/a/up-to-2-0...epartment-of-energy-sources-say-/7975631.html
Another article on it
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Mark, how is your daughter doing?
My BFF Barri could also be affected. She does accounting, appropriation, and oversight for government grants and programs they assist in securing. If the grants and programs they oversee get cut then... ????
My BFF Barri could also be affected. She does accounting, appropriation, and oversight for government grants and programs they assist in securing. If the grants and programs they oversee get cut then... ????
She works under a federally funded grant, so she doesn't know if the rug will be pulled out from her position or not. I suspect if the funding was to stop, I think UCLA would absorb the costs since it is vital to their doctorate program. There are only 2 persons running her lab. One is a college professor already funded by the college and my daughter. They are both part of the professor's union.
Who knows, but i support a smaller government and a complete audit of our welfare system. In my small career, I saw millions in fraud and waste.
Who knows, but i support a smaller government and a complete audit of our welfare system. In my small career, I saw millions in fraud and waste.
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There is talk of cutting Medicaid. If they did not pick up what Medicare won't cover, I would have been dead long ago.
I support cuts in Medicaid for illegal border jumpers.
Good morning Rusty.
Good morning Scout.
Good morning Mark.
Good morning Scout.
Good morning Mark.
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"...You know nothing about what he does. He's a project manager within a contractor group that's been under contract with the DNN, ...
.... What he does doesn't require knowledge of nuclear...."
i know a hell of a lot more than you will ever know. You must be forgetting what my position was. My clearance was through the DOD, with a TS SCI clearance, there is no higher level than that.
The point I
was making was as a Sub-Contractor he IS very vunerable to dismissal. That is the bottom line! I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but any 'cuts' will begin with Contract help. I'm certain that he is aware of that fact.
BTW, I do still hold my clearance level, which I can say and Biden can not.
His and many of his cronies, along with his 50 'experts' that signed that ridiculous letter denying his crooked son's laptop, recall that ?
Go back and READ what I said, I was in no way demeaning his job or work ethic, just pointing out the truth.
So get your hackels back down !!!
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Mornin' to all you sensible people
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Good question !
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Maybe because the Laying Hens, then become "Meat chickens"..... ?????
Usually a different breed. At least we have meat birds that grow to fat slobs in 8 weeks then butcher, laying hens don't even lay until 6 months old. Meat chickens are usually more likely to get sick and die because they are not as healthy. They are like an obese person. So fat their organs can't handle even a big temperature change.
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I think maybe you answered your own question?
If you have to slaughter a farm full of meat chickens due to bird flu, you can be up and running with new chickens ready to slaughter in maybe only 10 weeks ... whereas it takes 6 months to get eggs being laid again. The meat chicken industry has a faster recovery time.
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