Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   Hodja Date:   2/23/2016 4:24:07 PM

Unwad your pantyhose.  Maybe you and I had completely different experiences.  And your obvious bias against active duty military has been under wraps for some time now but surely did pop out in full glory this time.

Get GoneFishing to do some of his classic post data mining and see the multiple times in the past I have spoken highly of the dedicated public servants I have had the pleasure to work with and for.  

You make it sound like every civilian who ever worked for the Government should be placed on a pedestal and worshipped.  Some should, but there are a lot who just drew a paycheck.  In my present job I support a DoD agency that is forced to work directly with the VA.  The stories I hear about the attitudes and penchant for nonperformance make me cringe.  Accept it, for it is real.

As to military, in my experience there are chair movers and mountain movers.  I can't speak for the other services, but in the AF ratings are a joke.  There is reluctance to be honest in those ratings, so promotions assume all are rated one rung under God, so the promotion board looks at jobs and certain key phrases in the ratings to separate the wheat and chaff.  

In summary, your experience isn't the only one, and don't try to paint the entire Department as being what you observed.  I don't argue with your observations.  Don't argue with mine.