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Actual 'Veterans' hard to find in executive level VA jobs
2016-01-06
[Daily Caller] Despite a long-running government-wide push to hire veterans, only 13 percent of the top officials managing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system medical facilities are veterans and only two of those facilities are run by doctors who served in the military, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The DCNF analysis examined the biographies of the 300 top employees who run VA's 75 medical centers and regional offices, including directors, chiefs of staff and associate and assistant directors. (See interactive database below and here.) The original Veterans Preference Act in federal employment became law in 1944.

Viewing the 13 percent figure, it's almost as if the VA wants to ensure that, if veterans do work for the agency, they don't have the power to make changes.

Retired Navy Seal officer Gilberto Serrano, for example, told TheDCNF he applied for "at least 20" jobs at the VA. He has two master's degrees, a background in finance at major corporations, and spent three years volunteering doing financial analyses for the Puerto Rico VA.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Also conflicts with 'diversity' directives from the Emperor. The disparate impact of sticking white males with defending the country for over two hundred years, reduces the opportunity of other groups.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-01-06 11:37  

#3  Jerry Pournelle's
Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-01-06 08:08  

#2  I'll bet donating to Democrats gets you a sinecure more than any experience in either medical, business or defence does...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-01-06 07:16  

#1  Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-01-06 06:12  

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