What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?

Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by metaphor on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:25PM (#27888843)

Huh?? That's just entry-level base pay specifically for the Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM locality with 3 additional levels of opportunity above that[1], and you'd be getting paid the entire time to train towards a CDL + small arms + tactics qualifications...not to say anything about additional unadvertised compensation and standard fare of benefits that accompany typical blue collar federal jobs.

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-...

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by throwanem on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:50AM (#27892176)

I've heard that NNSA recruits pretty actively among people separating from the service.

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Re:What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country? by rhexs on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:28AM (#27892931)

The entire federal government recruits almost exclusively from people separating from the service due to veterans preference.

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