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Originally Posted by bblhead672
There needs to be a method to determine when a "civil servant" quits serving the American taxpayer and starts "self serving" or "agenda serving."
I have no idea what that would look like. Its amazing to me the number of federal employees who are furloughed yet "essential" government services continue to function. Always thought that indicated how many extra people there are on the federal payroll.
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As TS indicated in the marksmanship/training thread, the rank & file don't get to have an "agenda." Agendas are typically managed by executive branch appointees, ultimately not even GS/GM-15's etc. These are the people sitting in positions with titles like "Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Superfluous Affairs." The problem is often that these don't get purged all the way down when a new cabinet secretary comes in. They remain, like ticks, burrowed deep. If I were new secretary for a day & you were one of those ticks, the first thing you'd get from my office would be
all previous appointees have their letter of resignation on my desk by COB Monday. I'll research & let you know if I accept.
Much of the rank & file (within DA anyway), still subject to furlough, are that support "tail" often spoke of. It is very often tough at a base level to decide who's essential & who's not, beyond the obvious life/safety categories. NG/AR unit shows up to do a week at their base, training planned out, including lots of live-fire drills/range-time. Is that guy/gal at the Ammo Supply Point who's going to issue their ammo load essential or not? How about the range control guys who deconflict range activity? Should the unit just say, "screw it, we're going to do a week of diversity training instead and bugout for beer & pizza, road march back home early Thursday morning" ?