Bleeding badly...

Within the last year in a half or so, CBP has lost five extremely experience Instructors to other agencies. If you read the "I Wish It Was Fiction" post, that was one example, but tomorrow we lose another very experienced interdiction Officer whose field expertise was earned at the world's busiest port of entry. This Supervisory Officer and Instructor was going to be forced out of his position at the Academy and back into the field which would have cost him in the neighborhood of $20,000.00, because of a rotation policy that costs the Agency tons of money and exchanges experienced Instructor for those with little or no experience. Can you imagine moving to San Diego after taking that kind of hit. So he left, taking a job at another agency as a Program Manager. No longer an Officer sharing interdiction skills and experience. It costs about $70,000.00 to move an Instructor in or out of the Academy. That is about $140,000.00 per Instructor replacement. There are at least 10 scheduled to be moved in the near future. That is about $1,400,000.00, enough to pay 40 new line Officers for a year.

I could continue with similar stories, but hate to ramble about such this bad situation. I hope that this explains why I haven't been posting with the normal frequency. I don't like to report these kind stories. I would much rather share with you our successes, goals, and the cutting edge training we are doing to keep the nation safe. It is just not there right now, I hope it comes back around.

Those of us who care about this job and protecting those we love, hence the nation are just trying to survive right now.

BT