The Pentagon’s deferred resignation program and other civilian workforce reduction efforts have led to staffing shortages in critical installation support roles, which have caused cost increases, inadequate oversight of installation projects and contributed to delays in project design and execution.
“My staff and subcommittee staff have been inspecting and visiting installations across Georgia this year. We pretty consistently heard that as a result of the deferred resignation program and the reduction in the civilian workforce, there have been serious losses in engineering, in housing oversight, service member support, facilities maintenance, property management,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) said during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.
Dale Marks, assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and the environment, said the Defense Department is tracking personnel losses in key installation support roles that are negatively affecting the military construction enterprise.
Unrelated: I genuinely had to do a separate search to see if that uniform was genuine. Civilian staff in DPM or camo or whatever it’s called this week? Seems mega weird.
Go wild though, I guess.
So it’s real?
Yeah apparently so.
I can sort of see the argument to make people difficult to see in hostile environments… but it seems like you’ve got bigger problems if you have civilians razzing about in areas likely to see combat in the first place.
