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  I wonder what percentage of these veterans are retirees. Not knocking someone who did the same as I did, but still I wonder...

  For those who think this is a solution; IF a large percentage of these veterans are retired, I'd guess-ta-mate their age to be somewhere between 38 and 45. That would mean many of them would qualify for a full retirement in 20 years (20 years service at 62, etc.) Once more, this is not a comment deriding this policy, but if no effort is made to stager other later recruitment efforts, we will be back in the same position with another retirement exodus in the next 20 - 25 years. Putting that with the current crisis over the next 5 - 12 years would mean back-to-back waves of retirees. Not exactly a great picture of managerial initiative. With the current track record, do you think the administration would continue this program?

  And on the other hand, this just MAY be the solution they've been waiting for. With a large number of new employees of certifiable dependability, and an additional income (their military retirement), lessed healthcare expenses (since Tricare is cheaper for civil service and the federal agencies would not have to contribute to those on it); perhaps they are counting on them not needing as great an income as someone solely dependent on the civil income and retirement that NSPS will give. Maybe the administration is hoping the combination will seem a sufficient income when otherwise neither retirement, when considered independently, would otherwise be adequate to allow a retiree to just sit on the front porch and rock.

  Perhaps there is a method to this madness... You think?

  Tip off Posted November 19, 2007 1:58 PM
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  How funny is this article! They say they hire all these veterans! What about all the ones they do not hire and they do not follow the process when they medically disqualify them? Do 30% veterans in DHS if denied employment no longer have a right to a OPM Review? What about the screeners whom have no rights?

  Richard Posted November 14, 2007 2:03 PM
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  Yes, Homeland Security is indeed lying about hiring veterans. My husband is a disabled vet who was hired by homeland security. They fired him without just cause citing the two year provisional probation period, totally ignoring the fact that for veterans, the probation period is only 1 year. Then they fought hard to make up stuff about him when he wanted his job back, because his inept boss wanted to give the job to one of his friends who was FIRED from some other job in DHS. Totally inept and corrupt management.

  Anonymoos Posted November 14, 2007 11:09 AM
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  I do not feel your article is completely accurate. This may be true for lower level positions but I have not seen this in the upper levels. I know of several veterans who have applied for, and qualified for, management level positions but have not been hired. Speaking with several persons in the office for hiring they are looking to place Air Marshalls in these slots which leaves out those vets who worked hard to get not only experience but education from these positions.

  Kathy Posted November 14, 2007 8:32 AM
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  More lies from government - totally empty self-congratulatory rhetoric about hiring veterans. So they formed a committee? I am a "more than 30%" compensably disabled veteran and have personal experience with DHS having been offered a GS-15 job, then inexplicably waiting while they bumbled through the overload of security clearances until almost a year later they reorganized and the job was deemed no longer to exist. No, they couldn't seem to find another appropriate post. In 40 years Washington experience this is just another example of how they have always evaded veteran's preference.

  George Beuschold Posted November 14, 2007 8:24 AM
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  More lies from government - totally empty self-congratulatory rhetoric about hiring veterans. So they formed a committee? I am a "more than 30%" compensably disabled veteran and have personal experience with DHS having been offered a GS-15 job, then inexplicably waiting while they bumbled through the overload of security clearances until almost a year later they reorganized and the job was deemed no longer to exist. No, they couldn't seem to find another appropriate post. In 40 years Washington experience this is just another example of how they have always evaded veteran's preference.

  George Beuschold Posted November 14, 2007 8:24 AM