| Comment Number: | EM-001317 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 9:55:10 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
March 2, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: I write to express my concerns about changes to work rules in the Department of Defense (DoD). The proposed regulations, known as the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), were printed in the Federal Register on February 14, 2005. This message will be sent to both DoD and my representatives in Congress. I am a DoD worker that served in the United States Marine Corps for 5 years. During these 5 years several overseas deployments took me far away from my wife which eventually ended in our divorce. I am now remarried and have a child on the way which I do not plan on leaving for any reason. I took this job because I felt it was a way for me to continue my service to my country while maintaining my new family. I served honorably for 5 years during wartime as did many of my co-workers. I don't think that it is too much to ask that we be allowed to live normal lives now without the fear of leaving our families for long periods of time. Further more absolute power corrupts absolutly. Allowing supervisors to have this much control over their employees livelyhood isn't a great idea. Asking non-military personel to be completly non-bias and leave personal feelings out of their judgement is unrealistic. This makes it difficult for employees to confront their supervisors with problems they have with them for fear of a bad appraisal. This going to crumble what little unit cohesion we already have. At least in the Marines we could request mast to deal with problems concerning our superiors knowing that unjust treatment towards us because of the request would be punishable under article 132 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. All these proposals are just rocking a boat that is already in rough seas. It will turn employees to work for quantity over quality. Taking unnecessary shortcuts to produce as to be seen as "hard working employees" instead of doing things the right way just because you know that you can do it right and keep your job. I think this is going to cost American lives. As a Marine I know that I would rather have someone taking their time assembling my rifle than someone that is just trying to get as many as they can out. I'd rather have one reliable weapon than 10 that I can't count on when the crap hits the fan. Put yourself in that pilots shoes when he has a MIG on his tail and the only way he knew about it was the .50 cal rounds breezing by his wing tips instead of the radar system sitting in front of him. But hey all 10 planes are in the air right? Who cares how many end up in the sand or better yet the flyers that are now having to pray that the same person that fixed his radar didn't pack his parashut. As angry as all this sounds it is not meant to incite, just explain that caring more about personel than politics will win more battles then the other way around. Sincerely,