I Wish It Was Fiction...

Imagine this, you are in the training environment and in the course of your duties you find trainee with exceptional skills and expertise. You interview him and ask him if he would be willing to help provide training, he agrees. You utilize him as a visiting Instructor from the field and realize that he is providing 85% to 90% of the advanced course. Even though he has little field experience in your agency's area, he is brought to the training center as a permanent Instructor. His experience and abilities as an Instructor are highlighted by his critiques. You bring him aboard to assist in advanced anti-terrorism training due to his incident command expertise. Within this training a course is developed to challenge managers in mitigating incidents in this day and age of devastating events. Once again, the course is a resounding success as evidenced by the written and verbal accolades of the participating managers. He has once again illustrated that he is the best at what he does. He spends half of his time away from his family training employees on the road and then suddenly it stops. He is no longer training in the area of his expertise and is sent to a new realm. Those who take his place are pale replacements. His time at the training center is coming to an end, and he is returned to his former duty station, losing his grade and 25% of his salary, for his permanent position is said to be rotational and temporary. So instead of providing the best training possible to the agency's personnel, he is to be pushing traffic. He leaves the agency to take a leadership position outside the federal government paying more and providing more benefits for his family instead of being relegated to a journeyman position. The agency loses the best hazardous material and incident command trainer it has ever had. All he wanted, was to do what he did best and the nation would be safer, the agency would be more efficient, and we would still be conducting cutting edge training. I wish it was fiction....

BT