Comment Number: OL-10507269
Received: 3/14/2005 9:45:17 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 have already submitted a prepared text; however, I wish to make some personal comments regarding Rumsfeld's proposals. As a DODEA teacher overseas, I have been required to work 30 years overseas at the whim of the government in order to earn a pension. I have not had the luxury or moving back and forth from CONUS to overseas and back. As a result, I have been "deployed" away from my family now 29 years and 4 months. I have enjoyed my tenure and have put 150% into teaching young children of service members, deployed to Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Iraq as well as those here in Germany who are supporting each of the above actions. I have been involved in numerous security awareness actions and have lived on the German economy during all threatcon levels. What a slap in the face it is today, that Rumsfeld feels he needs to exercise dictatorial control over a kindergarten teacher, who has been an excellent leader in the school community and educated hundreds of DOD employees and their children, in the interest of national security? Where is common decency and integrity within the hierarchy of DOD?