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[lustindarkness]

I should use my vet preference sometime. Maybe if I ever apply to some other position.

Well, after some deep thought, nah, don't need it. Never mind.

[Josquius]

Hopefully without anymore Iraqs and Afghanistans veteran worship will die off in the coming decades.
Fingers crossed.

[lustindarkness]

Hopefully without anymore Iraqs and Afghanistans veteran worship will die off in the coming decades.
Fingers crossed.

I don't know about veterans, but I will be worshipped for eternity.

[CountDeMoney]

OPM sucks. Veterans suck. And I'm a veteran. 

I plan on leaving this job in a couple years anyway. Some other vet schmuck can take it when I leave 

So much easier moving laterally in the USG; I see all the distro lists for internal announcements, and all the cool stuff never sees the light of day.

Congrats on your guaranteed lifetime of employment, benefits and retirement, though.  Not a bad return for a couple years' of volunteer work.

[Grey Fox]

Why do Euros hate this vets worship?

[FunkMonk]

OPM sucks. Veterans suck. And I'm a veteran. 

I plan on leaving this job in a couple years anyway. Some other vet schmuck can take it when I leave 

So much easier moving laterally in the USG; I see all the distro lists for internal announcements, and all the cool stuff never sees the light of day.

Congrats on your guaranteed lifetime of employment, benefits and retirement, though.  Not a bad return for a couple years' of volunteer work.

Thanks Obama.

Also, I re-enlisted and did 8 years active duty, not 2. 

[Valmy]

From an outsider's point of view the "cult of the vet" seems very odd. I used to get press releases from several "proud vet-run businesses" that sold galoshes or something.

We decided that our way of handling the Vets after the ACW and WWI, letting them all descend into homelessness and alcoholism, was less than ideal.

[The Brain]

The nanny state is alive and well in America.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

So much easier moving laterally in the USG; I see all the distro lists for internal announcements, and all the cool stuff never sees the light of day.

Congrats on your guaranteed lifetime of employment, benefits and retirement, though.  Not a bad return for a couple years' of volunteer work.

This makes me wonder what these veteran preferences are going to do to the career officer and NCO pools.  If you can basically do one term and get all this preferential treatment for GS positions, how many otherwise career people are going to bail on the uniformed services?

[Admiral Yi]

It's not like veteran's preference is a new thing Moldy.

[Valmy]

It's not like veteran's preference is a new thing Moldy.

Yeah for decades the USPS was known as basically a veteran's employment program.

[derspiess]

It's not like veteran's preference is a new thing Moldy.

Yeah for decades the USPS was known as basically a veteran's employment program.

IIRC a head injury during military service gave you enough points to almost automatically get a job.

[MadImmortalMan]

Now it seems to be police departments and highwaymen patrol. Which is problematic in some ways.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

It's not like veteran's preference is a new thing Moldy.

No, but as Seedy's article indicated this push to make it much stronger is.

[CountDeMoney]

Now it seems to be police departments and highwaymen patrol. Which is problematic in some ways.

That's never changed, there's always been the attraction to rank organizations.
The problem now though is that so many vets with combat experience are not being reminded enough that, with rare exception,  a job in your local law enforcement agency isn't the same as major combat operations in urban pacification of hostile territory.