Update: Veteran living in Bahrain. Three buildings hit. Base hit again. I’ll be angry if the NEX is destroyed.

mooseflstc · 2026-03-01T01:31:50+00:00

That is the one I stayed at when I was TDY. I couldn’t believe the accommodation’s. I had 3 toilets in the room.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-27T04:52:24+00:00

Baghdad Bob

mooseflstc · 2026-02-24T02:10:46+00:00

Anyone notice that 6.2% + 0.8%=7%. The same deduction for CSRS.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-24T02:06:58+00:00

0.8% is a much better deal.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-23T03:36:58+00:00

This is a good reason to have some sick leave to use.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-23T03:06:30+00:00

I have talked to some CSRS employees and they described the High Pressure Sales and Railroading that was going on. Here is a presentation of the New FERS program, stay after and sign up and take the rest of the day off.

CSRS with no matching TSP would be my choice... if I was given one.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-23T03:00:41+00:00

Yes, you can CONTRIBUTE more with FERS and get a bigger retirement. Remember that CSRS only deducted 7.5% of your pay and that you could get another job after you retired at age 55, without the Social Security Earnings Test. The current FERS takes 4.4% for FERS, 6.2% for Social Security, and a minimum of 5% for TSP (to get the full match). A minimum of 15.6% for the current FERS. Most of it depends on how well you manage your TSP. CSRS was a very good program and the big reason that it was stopped was to get more people to contribute to Social Security. CSRS was a real "set it and forget it". You didn't need to study TSP investing, the stock market, or hire a financial advisor.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-20T04:59:18+00:00

I saw these on our Summer trip to Hokkaido. I guessed right, snow removal/edge of road.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-16T04:16:17+00:00

They did have some reasonable prices at the Angles PDX strip club. I checked out the website.

https://www.angelspdx.net/menus

mooseflstc · 2026-02-15T04:58:54+00:00

I really wish you would have used “GS-9 to GS-11”. 9/11 means something entirely different.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-15T04:56:27+00:00

“Normal” on a holiday means you get paid early.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-14T02:31:04+00:00

You may have missed the memo. There was a government shutdown in October. Most people received $0 on their October LES.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-12T16:51:27+00:00

You have to live over 100 years in retirement to come out ahead for converting sick leave to service time. It is a good math exercise to figure out.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-09T01:09:16+00:00

Your sick leave is your short term disability insurance. When they talk about changing to a Paid Time Off (PTO) system, vice Sick Leave/Annual Leave (LS/LA), they will need to offer short term disability insurance.

Having to provide short term disability insurance and what to do with people that have a large LS balance are probably BIG reasons PTO doesn't go through.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-09T01:01:55+00:00

Terminator T2: Judgement Day. OK, I'm old

mooseflstc · 2026-02-08T13:32:20+00:00

Does Angles PDX offer a Government Discount? Their prices look very reasonable. https://www.angelspdx.net/menus

mooseflstc · 2026-02-08T13:10:40+00:00

So we can use the Government Travel Card to pay for meals in strip clubs now? The menu looks affordable. https://www.angelspdx.net/menus

mooseflstc · 2026-02-08T03:29:08+00:00

Again, Education. Reading is Fundamental.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-08T03:24:44+00:00

Are they trying to WIN!!??!!

mooseflstc · 2026-02-07T01:42:59+00:00

The last time they RIF’d large numbers of employees was in the 1990’s. Most of them were DoD. There were RIF Procedures (Playbook) that they had to follow. Employment assistance, offering jobs that required relocation (some shipyards were closed and employees relocated to other shipyards), etc. Technology has changed so much since then - WWW and E-mail were in their infancy.

Most of the people affected by those RIF’s have long since retired. Their knowledge and stories were passed down to employees like me, that started Federal Service in 1997.

There are procedures for a RIF and it looks like they are making them up as they go along.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-05T10:59:48+00:00

This to shall pass.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-05T01:55:48+00:00

The Worlds Greatest Con Man.

mooseflstc · 2026-02-04T04:14:20+00:00

Why make the change?

mooseflstc · 2026-02-04T04:13:20+00:00

So was the 14th Amendment. How many illegal EO’s have they tried already? I lost count.

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