I believe it is a combination of being in a public company, lots of pressure from the job, and possibly the fact that former and disabled military are given preference over others with no military service. If you hire former military as a policy, you have to expect that most of them are very familiar with weapons. If you take pains to grind them down in their job, you should expect that they might have some pretty direct means of taking action against these pressures.

   When I worked in a local sorting office as temporary Christmas help, many years ago, things were pretty loose, but these days it seems lik there is much more pressure to perfom up to imposed job sstandards, and everyone is against everyone with lots of backbiting going on. They have a union, so people who feel that they have been badly treated can and frequently do appeal job actions, which can't make the people involved very happy, no matter how the issue is resolved. One of my personal friends, a retired AF polceman, made his life's ambition to get as many of his supervisors rulings overturned as he possibly could, and was later elected to the post of shop steward. I can't say that he was wrong in many of his stands, but the fiendish glee with which he pursued each action must have affected his work area and his supervisor's perceived authority within the work place.

   While I consider this man a good friend I would also take care not to work around him because he brings a poisonous atmosphere into his work area that has to affect those around him each day.

   Dave