"Newps" wrote in message
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Chip Jones wrote:
We're in the process
of fixing that right now though.

Yep, you're getting all the AFSS guys that will be, ah, surplussed.

Naw, *you're* getting all of the AFSS guys who have been surplussed. I'm in
a Level-12 ARTCC at the top of the ATC food chain. The AFSS guys that have
a Center background are almost all to a person, if not actually to a person,
enroute training failures. When we used to wash 'em out, they got sent down
to AFSS or some small tower/tracon in the minors somewhere. The vast
majority of employable AFSS people aren't qualified for ARTCC developmental
positions. We don't accept training failure transfers here at the world's
busiest ATC facility.

Far more likely you swivel-heads will get the few AFSS guys who actually are
qualified controllers. Ironic, too, in a twisted FAA way.. After all, the
69 Level 2-3 VFR towers will be the next part of the NAS auctioned off to
the low bidder, followed by Level-Three up-down terminal facilities. Those
few AFSS people who get picked up in air traffic will be job-hunting again
in about five years, along with a whole bunch of terminal 2152's. Serco or
Lockmart is headed your way right around 2010 or so.

Chip, ZTL