Re: OT - Why No Tea and Sympathy?

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:40:21 -0500, William Boyd
<williamboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>>
>> No, that's not true. VA had nothing to do with it. It was the US
>> Naval hospital....and their trauma office on base. If that didn't
>> carry any weight to get them help, then they were referred to a
>> physician off-base - as they are vets - and also civilian employees
>> and the US Navy didn't refer them clear down to the Vet hospital in
>> Seattle or the US Army hospital at Fort Lewis.
>>
>> CHAMPUS covered their care.
>>
>> LK
>
>I do not understand the status of the civilian employees that are
>working for the Navy. Are they prior military vets, or retired
>military vets or just civilians working for the government.
>What benefits do civilians get for being on the GS payroll.


The application for civilian service work on a US Naval facility has a
checkmark box: Are you a Veteran? After you answer your YES, then
they want your military ID, your rank and last station .

Based on that information - which you have to supply in original
hardcopy - they ask you if you claim a 5 point Veteran Preference or a
10 point Veteran Preference. (10 point is usually a career military
Vet - or a Vet who was wounded)

Then in open jobs you applied for, your Veteran Status allows you jump
ahead of non-veterans in the line and you get your job quicker.

Used to be that your civilian retirement was paid into Civil Service
retirement, but that was gradually replaced with Social Security in
the 1980s.

So, the Veteran goes to work in the Shipyard and has apprenticeship
program training in a particular trade. It's pretty common in the
Northwest for 4/6 year Vets to go to work at one of the military
installations since they can get a job there quicker than they can in
private industry. Veteran points are heavy to have to get a job fast
after a stint in the service during war time. Many soldiers go to the
shipyard for work because they have immediate medical help close by.
Some guys have literally lost their cool on the job when they're under
pressure to finish the job on time and under cost. That's when
they're pulled off the job, placed on traumatic leave and is off work
for however long it takes for the doctors to pull him back to the
world with traumatic leave pay - and then he's put in an office
position under watchful eyes until he has a clean bill of health again
to go back to his regular job.

LK


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