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Military.com | Feb 21, 2017 | by Amy Bushatz
A federal civilian hiring freeze ordered by President Donald Trump has forced at least two Army bases to indefinitely suspend some child care programs.
Officials at Fort Knox, Kentucky, notified families Feb. 17 of the suspension to the on-base part-day child development center (CDC) programs, its hourly care program and the enrollment of new families into the CDC.
"Effective immediately, no new children will be enrolled in the CDC," states the letter, signed by Fort Knox garrison commander Col. Stephen Aiton. "Also, effective 27 February 2017, the CDC will no longer accommodate childcare for our hourly care and part day families until further notice."
The CDC's part-day programs include its part-day preschools. Many military families, including some CDC workers, rely on hourly care for child care during part-time jobs or school hours, or when the full-time day care program is full. One Army spouse at Fort Knox reported that the wait list for her 1-year-old is estimated through July.
"We are prevented from bringing new caregivers on board but are still having our usual staff turnover and illnesses, which creates challenges to maintaining ratios and providing quality childcare," the Fort Knox letter states.
Officials at U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden, Germany, announced that all part-day programs will be suspended in a letter dated Feb. 22 but circulated Tuesday.
Part-day programs at Wiesbaden will be suspended starting March 1, that letter states. That letter does not address hourly care or other CDC enrollment.
"The closure is a result of staff shortage due to the federal hiring freeze," says the letter, signed by Wiesbaden garrison commander Col. Todd Fish.
At issue is a Jan. 23 White House directive freezing most hiring at all federal agencies.
Although a Feb. 1 Defense Department memo exempts from the freeze 16 categories of civilian workers, including "positions providing child care to the children of military personnel," Army base commanders are still required to get permission from the service secretary before filling positions, according to a Feb. 16 memo from Diane Randon, acting assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs.
As of Jan. 17, the Army's Child and Youth Services program had 12,000 positions systemwide with 2,657 vacancies, according to Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) officials. The Army child development center program has historically had problems keeping positions filled due to high turnover and a sluggish background check system through which all workers must be vetted.
"Issues include access to medical exams, the background checks and slow administration because of limited HR staffing as the Army gets smaller. Another issue is that many candidates take other jobs before an offer can be tendered," Bill Costlow, an IMCOM spokesman, said in January.
Child care programs account for about half of the Army's $1.1 billion annual budget for family programs, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel Dailey told senators at a hearing this month.
About 5,500 children are on child care wait lists at the 230 CDC locations worldwide, Army officials said in a recent release. The average wait time for a daycare spot is four months, the release said, with at least five bases with wait times of five months or longer. Army bases in Hawaii have the longest wait times at 16 months.
IMCOM officials said they are unaware of any other bases suspending their hourly or part-day programs as a result of the hiring freeze.
Officials with the Navy said although the service requires a similar approval process for hiring exemptions, they are unaware of any CDC programs being shuttered as a result.
Marine Corps and Air Force officials did not respond by deadline to requests for comment.
-- Amy Bushatz can be reached at [email protected]


The problem is that while the amended order exempted the positions, Base commanders need follow the Chain of Command in order to get the waivers needed, and the new administration forced most of the Deputy Secretaries to resign, so the request gets to an empty desk. Same thing in State and a half dozen other Departments.

Are those sources enough for you? Are you trying to say the story isn't true and that the day care centers weren't effected and closed? Saying all they need is a waiver is nonsense when no waivers are being issued.
I'd think a site like Military.com would suffice, but do you have any idea what that site even is.

Here is a new article on it.

Military.com | Feb 25, 2017 | by Amy Bushatz
The fallout from a federal hiring freeze directed last month by President Donald Trump continued to reverberate across military bases on Friday when officials at Marine Corps Camp Lejeune and Air Station New River in North Carolina announced closures and cut backs.
Officials with Marine Corps Community Services Lejeune-New River announced on their Facebook page that hourly care child care at their child development centers (CDCs) was suspended effective Feb. 23.
Cuts to other services at the locations starting between Feb. 27 and March 6 include several Marine Marts reducing hours, operating hours cuts to Starbucks at the Main Exchange Mall, the closure of New River Recreation Equipment, and the complete closure of the Central Marine mart and gas station, they said.
The closures and staffing shortages caused by the hiring freeze at military installations around the globe have appeared to catch even the services off guard.
"The Marine Corps is carefully monitoring the adverse effects of the civilian hiring freeze on operational and family readiness," Maj. Garron Garn, a spokesman for Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs said Feb. 22. "To date we've been able to mitigate these effects by carefully prioritizing critical vacancies and requesting selective exemptions via the Secretary of the Navy. We'll continue to track the effects of the freeze and work to mitigate adverse impacts."
Officials at the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) told the Army Times Feb. 24 that their stores could face similar hours cuts or closures as a result of the freeze, but they are working to avoid doing so.
Officials with the Navy Exchange and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) didn't respond to requests for comment by deadline.
The Army and Air Force Exchange cuts follow announcements by two Army bases that child care services would be cut starting Feb. 27 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and March 1, at U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden in Germany due to the freeze. School aged and teen programs at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, are also scheduled to have reduced hours starting mid-March, although Navy officials said they still hope to avoid taking that step.
At issue is a Jan. 23 White House directive freezing most hiring at all federal agencies.
Although Exchange, child care workers and other Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) employees are Non-Appropriated Funds (NAF) workers and not funded by taxpayer dollars, the freeze "applies to all executive departments and agencies regardless of the sources of their operational and programmatic funding, excepting military personnel," according to the Executive Order.
While a Feb. 1 Defense Department memo exempts from the freeze 16 categories of civilian workers, including "positions providing child care to the children of military personnel," base commanders are still required to get permission from their service secretary before filling positions, services spokespeople said.
AAFES officials told the Army Times that they have also submitted a request to the Pentagon for a hiring exemption.
-- Amy Bushatz can be reached at [email protected].

Same old Fritz. Often mistaken but never in doubt. +

Check a couple of right wing outfits....like the Washington Post, Stars & Stripes or Salondotcom......In your day, it was don't believe everything you read in the newspapers. These days billyboy, don't believe everything you read on the internet. Wishing billyboy doesn't make it true.

From the Military Times as cited by poor old DonDiego above: "Editor's note: The Army on late Wednesday issued a statement that, as previously specified in Defense Department guidance, Army child care providers are exempt from the hiring freeze and child care will continue without interruption."
[boldface added - DD]

And yet it is not. The Base commanders have to seek waivers for new hires, as does the AAFES and they aren't forthcoming. Saying child care will continue without interruption is nice, but if they don't have the people to do it, words are meaningless. As you can read, a day after the article in Military Times, the Marine Base at Lejeune's child care remained closed, as did the Central Market and the gas station with more cutbacks starting Monday.
Locally, parents were told the day care at Nellis will be cutting hours this week. An attempt to staff it with volunteers fell apart because they would need twenty hours of training and background checks, yet the freeze doesn't permit new background checks.
Just the latest example of trump saying one thing, and doing another.
Wait for the summer when no seasonal workers at the National Parks are scheduled to be added.

From the very article DD selectively quotes from.

Defense Department guidance issued Feb. 1 specifically exempts “Positions providing child care to the children of military personnel.” However, the service branches still must seek approval to hire workers to fill those positions when they become vacant, said DoD spokesman Johnny Michael. 

DoD is aware that bases including Fort Knox and Wiesbaden have announced child care cuts, Michael said, and officials "are working through the chain of command with these installations to ensure that they are taking advantage of the ability to seek exemptions."

New processes for obtaining such exemptions may create hiring delays, Michael said, which could lead to staffing shortages even in exempted areas. 

Information was not available from Army Installation Management Command officials regarding how many bases have been affected.

So one of, if not the largest base in Europe, Ft Knox and Camp Lejeune have areadyl been forced to close their child care clinics due to personal shortages., but the Army promises everything will continue without interruption. Those are only the ones we know about.
Except for the people that bury their heads up their asses and say it isn't so.

Reread your first post here billyboy.....it doesn't quite reflect your current position. Trump's freeze hasn't got anything to do with army bases that can't cope with personnel matters.

You suggest something about people with their heads in strange places.....I suggest where your head is it's very dark. Why not just admit to the fact that you were spouting crap you read on the internet without checking? At least you'd have some credibility left.

Right. These bases had fully functional child care clinics before the hiring freeze. Now they don't. But it's not because of the hiring freeze. Got it.
Do you even believe your own blather?