> The salary range for an NV-01 (basic) federal agent NMC is $48,682 to $76,981.
For the amount of training required for this job and personal risk, I’m shocked at the low salary band.
For the amount of training required for this job and personal risk, I’m shocked at the low salary band.
It seems like an awesome job for someone with the right set of preferences. Spend half your time training, working out, going to the range. Half your time on long road trips. Huge responsibility, but extremely low chance you'll ever need to actually do much. Kind of like being a cop who never has to arrest or deal with people.
It has been the plot of several movies/books/etc.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(film)
That being said, the quoted line kind of raises the question: how do we know?
I suppose given the use of the word “feel” the GP doesn’t actually know, but that’s not really my point anyway. My point is rather – if there in fact were incidents involving these nuclear material couriers, would it make the news or remain secret as a matter of national security?
Burst all you want, but it doesn't mean my comment wasn't true. You can want this conversation to only go one direction (real life), but it's the internet and conversations can diverge. The fact that it has been involved in plots is still relevant. Some people might actually find it interesting even if it steers the convo in a manner you don't approve.
To me, as a native English speaker, B is clearly implying (with their "technically true" statement) the statement "Event X happens a lot in fiction, therefore I infer that Event X happens a lot in real life". Statements are read in the context of the preceding conversation.
I dunno, I feel like I'm living in a future designed by folks who looked at Robocop, Starship Troopers, and a few other bits of dystopian sci-fi and instead of treating it as a warning decided that it would make a swell instruction manual.
Every politican has skin in the game (mandatory military service for gaining the right to vote or be voted for)
No racism or sexism or other discrimination, at least there are no traces for that in either the movie nor the novel.
If you don't want to join the military: No problem, you don't have any major disadvantages (besides no political participation), see the wealthy family of the protagonist.
Science seems to flourish
Ehm... sorry for the digression... what were we talking about?
But the movie was a bit different - maybe you watched the german version? That was a bit softer - the teacher didn't made jokes about the anhilation of Hiroshima there.
It was a deeply militarized society. Brutal. Top down. But yes, at least the politicians had to be part of that, too. (but in reality ... I think you can be in the military and be far away from any danger, like Bush was a fighter pilot, but not deployed at Vietnam.)
It literally starts out by re-contexualising the ex-millitary putsch attempts in Weimar Germany as a Good Thing.
And I always kind of assumed, that Bush watched Swordfish (where the bad guys are only bad, so they can fight terrorism, so are the "good guys") and would have gone on a war on terror, even if 911 would not have happened.
Although, it might be a bit relevant. You feel cooler when you tell people what you do if it's fictionally cool, even if in real life it's not all that great.
If the truck is still operating afterwards, I expect they don't stop - they let another vehicle that is full of federal agents from the convoy deal with it.
given that Russia didn't lose any nuke in the chaotic 199x (didn't lose or they were quickly recovered) I think there is no credible/feasible/capable interest/threat for the nukes.
Serious question (in more ways than one): do we really know that to be true? How?
I'm making two assumptions:
1. you don't steal a nuke unless you're going to sell it or use it
2. you don't buy a nuke unless you're going to use it (for blackmail or to blow something up)
And (2) would have been easily noticed.
Here [1] is a 2004 press release from the International Science and Technology Center, whose first objective is to "Provide weapons scientists in the CIS the opportunity to redirect their talents to peaceful activities." Page 9 describes their involvement in the Avogadro Project.
Here [2] is the project description on the ISTC website.
[0]https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/presseaktuelles/journals-magazines...
[1]https://www.istc.int/upload/files/6yoyjz8txt44oc0g8cs8.pdf
[2]https://istc.ru/istc/sc.nsf/html/projects.htm?open&id=2630
That right there makes it pretty attractive. Lots of people do those things for fun. If that's half your "workload", it totally makes sense to do a job like this, especially if you're not a city person since that's a solid salary if your not in a high cost of living area.
This is probably the least risky OTR trucking job ever since you have so many people making sure everything goes right and you don't have dispatch pushing you to do insane shifts that stretch the law.
The truck manufacturer has been out of business long enough now that seeing a surviving example is relatively rare.
Is that based on experience?
Yeah pretty much. Ask any government worker why they're still working for the government and they'll tell you something about benefits and stability.
Public sector is serious brain drain
The counterpoints are people so uninspired and risk averse that it is the same as brain drain, and a subset of them are the people that began with a “serving the public” ideal and accidentally accumulated too many obligations by the time they figured out they wanted to live in a nicer neighborhood or send their children to a good college
The good talent are people that took a plea deal for non prosecution that included public service
Wait, wat? This is a thing? Did you mean "community service" instead of "public service"? Or do you mean people like Frank Abagnale?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14253/the-us-moves-nuk...
"The expose painted a dismal picture of an overworked and underpaid organization where over a third of the personnel would put in more than 900 hours of overtime each year, equal to more than 35 extra days on the job. Couriers and agents spend most of that time on the road on long, boring drives unable to stop for protracted periods or even leave their vehicles in many circumstances. If they get pulled over by local law enforcement for some reason, the truck drivers aren't even allowed to speak to the police without the security force commander being present during the conversation.
Underscoring these issues, in 2010, the Department of Energy's Inspector General cataloged 16 alcohol-related incidents within OST in the preceding three years, including an incident of public intoxication where a courier was arrested and another where two employees ended up in police custody after getting into a drunken bar brawl. The report uncovered New Mexico court records showing the office's top executive had gotten a DUI after police came across him parked on a sidewalk apparently drinking in the car with a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent."
Sounds a lot like gambling auditing TBH.
Or they provide benzodiazepines on the job now?
I suspect the biggest general public barrier to entry here would be competing against a glut of qualified applicants with 5-/10-point veterans' preference, assuming time was taken to put notification hooks in place for immediate action on job postings that'll close almost as soon as they're announced.
[1] https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/downloads/nnsas-demo-pay-system-...