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2014-10-19 Government

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Posted by Pappy 2014-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Friday afternoon I took a short cut through NASWI on the way home and I counted at least 4 of the Growlers (the Electric Lawn Darts) on VAQ-129's ramp all preserved. So that told me they were long time down birds. And then this article.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-10-19 00:12|| 2014-10-19 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Yah know.. if SpaceX can 3D print working rocket motors out Inconel....

Posted by 3dc 2014-10-19 00:43|| 2014-10-19 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Electric Lawn Darts. Heh heh.

Posted by Shipman 2014-10-19 06:54|| 2014-10-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The Island? I thought you were still at PACOM USN Ret ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-19 06:56|| 2014-10-19 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 B:
Nope, residing on the idyllic Rock, currently anchored just north of Seattlestan.
But the trees are pretty and watching the eagle and hawks soar is relaxing.
And 4 miles from the Sound of Freedom; love the FCLP rythym.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-10-19 11:49|| 2014-10-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Goes back to treating engineers like crap, so the young folks saw how badly the older generation of Aerospace engineers got treated - and went into Chem Engr instead, or became Biz majors.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-19 18:18|| 2014-10-19 18:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Engineers? Engineers! We don't need no steenkin' engineers!
Of course that dearth of talent is a feature, not a bug. Besides they all talk funny, and laugh at nothing at all. And And then they try to explain things in logical and sensible terms ... enough to mislead all but the best of US.

Posted by Skeezix2049 2014-10-19 21:04|| 2014-10-19 21:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Aha - I have the answer!!! Let's import a bunch of engineers from India, Russia and China!! Give them all H1B visas. After all there's a massive shortage of engineers in the US.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-10-19 21:39|| 2014-10-19 21:39|| Front Page Top

#9 H1B actually is to blame. They come here basically at the mercy of the employer, depress wages, so those citizens here dont want the hassle - nor is it fair to compete with a tilted playing field, so they opt out. In a generation we are in serious trouble for Electronic Engineers for classified work, as well as Aerospace and Software.

The greed of those industry people and the stupidity of Congress in the H1B laws is driving people out that we need in there.

Halt H1B now. If we need them that badly, give them a green card and put them on the path to citizenship and staying here, instead of training them then shipping them home to compete against us.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-19 22:12|| 2014-10-19 22:12|| Front Page Top

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