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walkingman

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2. I don't understand this completely...I am 20+ years retired but I worked at Army and Air Force bases

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:57 PM

Feb 2025

for a Fortune 500 company doing installation and maintenance of VTC, Network, and Computer systems. We had multi-year multi-billion dollar contracts for this work. This usually meant at the time the contracts were awarded we increased, hired, and trained thousands of people for this work. FYI - at all the bases we had military personnel along side us for training purposes and experience.

So when the Sec. of Defense talks about firing thousands of people, is he talking about canceling contracts? because I don't think he is talking about discharging someone in the military other than maybe a flag officer?

Am I wrong or do things work differently these days.

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I don't understand this completely...I am 20+ years retired but I worked at Army and Air Force bases walkingman Feb 2025 #2