Posted on 02/23/2011 9:54:09 PM PST by Nachum
NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command will cut 79 positions as part of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' cost-savings initiative to improve efficiency that he issued late last year.
Commanders said 40 of the positions will be military and 39 will be civilian. Offices most directly affected include chaplains, history, surgeon general and control systems.
Most of the people who lose their jobs will be transferred to other posts in the military, and in some cases the military will help individuals find new employment, a NORAD spokesman told Fox News.
And some of the positions, which are currently vacant, simply will not be filled, the spokesman said.
Great. Now NOBODY will see Santa Claus. Way to go, Obama!
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kick out the canadians, they’re useless.
When I was active we were asked to give up positions so we created bogus positions and the offered them as part of our down sizing. Just didn’t file the crated positions and were hero’s. We also had positions that we never filled just keep them in case we were asked to down size.
LOL!
Besides, the ChiComs will give Bam a call if they launch anything at us.
Yep, I remember that bogus billet strategy. You’d have twelve positions of “X” and the manpower guys refused to fill more than ten of them. So when cut order came....you happily gave up two, but then you were shocked as the manpower guys now refused to fill more than eight slots. There is a plus and minus to this strategy.
when a GS 14 retires desk audit the position for two GS-6 and only fill one.
Then the grade creep starts. Manage to budget.
79? lol. For the DoD that’s, what, a single project management team to write a mouse driver that takes one guy to write?
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