I have bilateral pars defect at L5 with a grade I Spondylolisthesis. Local doctors want to fuse L3-L5, or I will be in a wheelchair within 5 years. For younger people that may be their only option. Non-local doctors do…
After 28 years of DoD service, civilian engineer, I just called it quits. I got tired of the retaliation for turning in security violations. The last one: sharing of passwords on a secured network. One violator's…
This is what I observed at McClellan AFB during my time there. No matter how hard I fought to do the work as a government engineer, management continuously turned the work over to contractors. As to why? I was taken…
At one time, government engineers were in equal standing with contractor engineers. As defense spending dwindled down after the Vietnam war, defense contractors began to lobby for more control of defense workloads. On a…
I have bilateral pars defect at L5 with a grade I Spondylolisthesis. Local doctors want to fuse L3-L5, or I will be in a wheelchair within 5 years. For younger people that may be their only option. Non-local doctors do…
After 28 years of DoD service, civilian engineer, I just called it quits. I got tired of the retaliation for turning in security violations. The last one: sharing of passwords on a secured network. One violator's…
This is what I observed at McClellan AFB during my time there. No matter how hard I fought to do the work as a government engineer, management continuously turned the work over to contractors. As to why? I was taken…
At one time, government engineers were in equal standing with contractor engineers. As defense spending dwindled down after the Vietnam war, defense contractors began to lobby for more control of defense workloads. On a…