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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (22447)	3/17/2003 8:04:34 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 25898

Lakia Jackson has two jobs with the Defense Department -- as a civilian, she is a technician in human relations, and when she is on active duty, she is Spc. Jackson for the National Guard. Amazing.. I thought they had completed switching over all the technician slots to AGR (title 32 active guard and reserve) already.. Must be some states continuing to resist. Very political issue as I recall.. Well, don't feel too bad for them.. Those jobs are contingent upon being in the national guard and primarily a holdover from years ago.. They know the deal and are well aware they are liable to be deployed. So they aren't taking anymore of a pay cut than they could expect were their technician slots transitioned into Title 32 AGR, paid at the military rate. I've known quite a few technicians who were helicopter mechanics... They used to receive military leave for their two weeks of annual training. That meant they effectively got paid double what anyone else received only their military pay. It's the yin and yang of such employment situations.. They should consider themselves lucky that they still have those technician jobs... And given that they were considered very lucrative, most of those folks are high ranking and draw some decent salaries either way. Hawk