Talk about a backdoor draft - NSPS is coming

[designforce]

Here is some info concerning the new NSPS system for us lowly Civil Serveants:

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Is there any way that civilians could be considered military personnel under NSPS?

No, employees under NSPS will continue to be civil service employees. The Department of Defense has no authority today nor will they under NSPS to treat civilian employees as military assets. Our DoD military and civilian employees are each governed by a separate set of rules, regulations and statutes, and these distinctions will be maintained under NSPS.


Under NSPS, can civilian employees be defined as "deployable assets" and ordered anywhere in the world, including war zones, to support the mission?

Currently DoD has the authority to reassign employees and this authority is unaffected by NSPS. One of the Goals of NSPS is to reduce its reliance on the military to perform jobs that could be performed by civilians in order to free up the military to perform its war fighting duties.

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Now, if you go to the main site http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps/ and dload the entire release, you will find that DOD will be able to deploy us CIVILIANS anytime, anywhere. Talk about a backdoor draft. Now we are going to be subjected to long and involuntary moves to who knows where. I already served my time (sounds like prison time, doesn't it) and now I may be forced to 'deploy' to war zones? Guess using Halliburton and other private companies is getting too expensive and now they want to use us, who by the way, make less than the GIs when you add up total pay.

After you read the new rules, if you feel moved to do so, please write your senator or congressperson and express your views.

Thank You

[HereSince1628]

1. Yeah, and if your offices are destroyed and you all are dead

you won't be counted as casualties. You'll be reported as deaths due to structural failures, etc.

I bet they'll even make you self-insure your health risks. What do you think something like a $1000 deductible and upto a $100 co-pay per visit.

[teryang]

2. Many of the DOD agency hiring notices have this

When you read it, it seems clear that you are required to be firearm qualified and ready to go wherever they want to send you.

[Mockingbird]

3. The Boy Scouts are next...

Don't look now, but the campfire girls are getting firearm qualified too...

...not to make light of the post (A GW "heh, heh").


Hasn't that firearm qualification & clause been there forever, but largely ignored for decades?
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Nonsequitor:

I expect they are making civil service jobs a right wing entitlement program in the future, to reward low level supporters. Thought they were "union busting" federal employees lately?

If they break everything down, eventually it needs to be rebuilt. When it is - they just make sure they're in power to stack the deck toward a NeoCON favor. Methodical & easier than direct indoctrination.

Didn't the Nazi Party follow this model?

[struggle4progress]

4. Formal comments are due March 16, 2005

NSPS Proposed Regulations Published in the Federal Register

February 14, 2005 - The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have issued proposed regulations to establish the National Security Personnel System. The proposal offers new rules and processes for pay and classification, performance management, hiring, reduction in force, disciplinary matters and appeal procedures, and labor-management relations.

http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps/

[Ralounews]

5. A Mailing List You Don't Want To Be On

There's a plan to spread the net further, too.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2005/n02032005_2005020305.html

Is considering establishing a database in which American citizens can register their language skills or sign up for a civilian linguist reserve corps that could contribute to national language requirements as needed.


Yeah. Riiight. Job training. Money for school. A trip to some desert somewhere to shoot at people.

Um, no thanks.

[libodem]

6. this is hear-say

and I don't want to believe it but a woman I know told me they would forgive her $50,000 worth of school loans if she went to Iraq. Can this be happening?