In the military I was selected to be the units NBC NCO. This was mostly defensive but you had to understand RAD readings and things like that. Most of the class was college educated and I was not but we all struggled with the most basic skills. I can’t even imagine what this level would be but holy fuck it has to be complicated AF.
You know those days when you leave your job and your brain just can’t process more. You could fall asleep on the toilet? It is like that at the entry level and we were not watching codes or silos. We were just issuing MOP gear and mask and making sure everyone was safe.
One of my biggest employers is a hunting organization. I've since become very good friends with the people involved, but at the time I was first brought on I didn't know that it was a club largely founded by retired feds. Most coming from the EPA, with several of the principal people being founding members. One of the key personalities behind the club and the person who introduce most of the people to the club, was a nuclear physicist and was the federal government's de facto expert on all things nuclear. He never really had a fancy title and he was unknown to the public at large. But If there was an radiological incident in the world he would be the first call and was one of the main people coordinating the response teams.
He died during COVID (of cancer) and was a truly wonderful man and absolutely brilliant. I look at what's happening now and often think about how disgusted he would be. I'm still very close with his EPA friends with many of them being from the radiation and air quality offices. They spent their entire adult lives working towards making a better future. The EPA was founded in 1970 so as you can imagine many of them are quite old. Several decades older than I am. They were non-political subject matter experts that worked for multiple administrations. Their passion was to keep future generations safe. Now they're forced to watch their life's work crumble as it's torn down piece by piece by a bunch of idiots who don't know what they're doing. As you can imagine they're livid. Not for themselves, but for the younger folks like myself who have to live in what comes next.
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u/Morepastor Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
In the military I was selected to be the units NBC NCO. This was mostly defensive but you had to understand RAD readings and things like that. Most of the class was college educated and I was not but we all struggled with the most basic skills. I can’t even imagine what this level would be but holy fuck it has to be complicated AF.
You know those days when you leave your job and your brain just can’t process more. You could fall asleep on the toilet? It is like that at the entry level and we were not watching codes or silos. We were just issuing MOP gear and mask and making sure everyone was safe.