Name:   MrHodja - Subject:   LakenGulf, Fly Fisher Date:   4/27/2016 8:31:54 PM

Your "norm" isn't gospel.  My norm is that in over 48 years of service to the government, as a military officer, defense contractor working with the Navy, and defense contractor working with the defense health management enterprise, I have NEVER seen a civil servant dismissed for cause.  There is more than a little truth to the civil service rocket syndrome.  Protest as you will, my experience is much different than yours.  In fact, I have been reminded recently by my government customer that the reliance on contractors has an ulterior motive....you can dismiss an underperforming contractor much easier than a similarly underperforming civil servant.  That is my reality, Hound.