r/Firefighting Tennessee FF (Career) Feb 08 '25

News Federal Hiring Freeze prevents on-boarding of wildland firefighters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/firefighters-federal-hiring-freeze/index.html
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u/TheSavageBeast83 Feb 09 '25

I don’t think you understand the ramifications

Well I do because I lived it. I got paid 4x the amount of money which more than supplemented everything you just mentioned. And I still used the VA because being a contractor doesn't just make my veteran status disappear, I don't even know what tf you were thinking with that comment

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u/BackgroundWallaby302 Feb 09 '25

You’re an idiot the VA can disappear is what I mean. Yes we are in a job of public service and most of the Feds now imagine if everything was about profit. Hey we aren’t doing cancer research for our firefighters because that affects the bottom line. Why worry about Mother Nature about the healthcare of our nation if it affects the profit margins.

Since you’re not super educated on the subject this was tested all thru Latin American and was an absolute failure.

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