| Comment Number: | OL-10505669 |
| Received: | 3/11/2005 1:59:39 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:
I am a nurse. I have 7 years an an active duty Nurse Army Officer, with one deployment to Iraq in the first Gulf War. I have 21 years in the GS system. I have 2 graduate degrees and did not qualify for GS jobs in my field of study after graduation, becasue I had "no experience". My whole career is based on performance but success was not an upwardly mobile factor as a civilian and I was better off on active duty. Unlike my uniformed counterparts, my career is not looked upon as upwardly mobile or worth development. The grade range is extremely limited to GS 9 - 12, despite leadership positions and the responsibility to make independent decisions for life and death situations. ACTEDS is a worthless exercise because it is not supported by leadership and is not seen as milestones to be supported for employee. The supervisors do not see their responsibility to develope their employees career. As a military officer, my career was mapped out and supported by supervisors because they had to answer for it when it wasn't. Military supervisors are not educated or conditioned to look objectively at their civilian counterparts in career development and evaluations. If this was happening to the active duty force, there would be Congressional hearings to investigate teh reason. Now civilians are about to loose bargaining power and any career safety netthey had for protection. This is not what I understood to be the condition of employment when I started my career.