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I think it would be hard or impossible to properly regulate this for most agencies. Is CCW the only requirement or would additional training be...

I am not an EMT or a Firefighter nor have I ever been one. From all of my friends who are either or both, the general consensus has been they...

Yep. I wish all of you who are serving, a rewarding, safe and frustration-free career, but boy am I glad that I'm retired.

I will only add that when your politically-appointed agency head is trying to dismantle the agency and sabotage a 100+-year-old mission for someone’s...

BIG appreciates your kind words, sir.

What? But they said it on TV, so it must be true! :) Fifteen years of reading your posts, BIG, and they never get old... well said!!!

:gpost: This. Every federal agency will become a political football at some point. 99.9% of the employees are just trying to keep their heads down...

What exactly are you asking? If EMT or Paramedics should be required to carry a concealed weapon? If they should be allowed to carry a concealed...

Affected "essential employees" (sworn FLEOs) may take SL or emergency AL but it's coded as a non-paid status in combination w/ a furlough agreement...

USPS OIG is affected. Support staff, HQ agents, managers and staff, hotline, legal counsel, tech ops officers, computer crimes agents all have been...

USPIS, TIGTA, and Postal OIG are unaffected.

As NSEDET said, mostly OIGs. In some of the agencies who have an OIG and an office of criminal investigations, only the OIG is funded. On the HHS...

Labor, VA, Defense, Energy, Education, and HHS all have full year appropriations, as does the legislative branch.