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I call BS. This is probably thinly veiled political content making its way to HN.

https://www.armytimes.com/off-duty/military-sports/2017/09/1....

Looks like the military academy football coach is a contractor, not a federal employee.

Interestingly, medical specialists is one of the few places that the USG has allowed itself to offer competitive salaries for expertise. Wish we'd do the same for software engineering and data analysis.

Right. The government has salary caps but unlimited contractor budgets, for which the government pays transactional overhead. It's absolutely absurd.

The article is a hit piece by a Republican anti-big-government activist, and a dishonest one at that, focusing on salary and ignoring benefits ("makes more than the President", who has a massive personal service entourage and huge pension? Come on) and ignoring contractors who get paid far more.

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