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Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by G8tas, Feb 17, 2025.

  1. G8tas

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    Other FAA employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system the Air Force had announced in 2023 for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles, through a program that was in part funded by the Defense Department. It’s one of several programs that the FAA’s National Airspace System Defense Program manages that involve radars providing longer-range detection around the country’s borders.

    Due to the nature of their work, staff in that office typically provide an extensive knowledge transfer before retiring to make sure no institutional knowledge is lost, said Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, one of the employees in that branch who was terminated.

    The Hawaii radar and the FAA defense program office working on it are “about protecting national security,” Spitzer-Stadtlander said. “I don’t think they even knew what NDP does, they just thought, oh no big deal, he just works for the FAA.”

    https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437

    Another example of firing people without actually understanding what they do
     
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  2. JustaGator

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    I’ve never seen someone simultaneously start a recession and leave the only remaining superpower vulnerable in less than a month, but that’s why you should never underestimate the KGB.

    They can take a narcissistic moron and co-opt an entire country full of morons to destroy themselves from within. How meta is that?
     
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    He's probably already told uncle Vlad that Europe is on their own if Vlad decides he wants some of it. NATO as we knew it is cooked. A life long dream of Vlad was to splinter or dismantle NATO. Here we are.
     
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    All it took was a couple of Eastern European red sparrows to open their legs and give birth to a couple of anchor babies and then the money laundering Russian mob uncles show up to put a broke ass “real estate developer” back into business. Cheapest corporate takeover in history.
     
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