Once again, though, you've said something very, very true. Although I personally am not entitled to it, the various types of hiring preference extended to veterans of the armed forces guarantees that there will be TONS of feds out there who were "drill sergeants" and "Navy SEALs" and lots of other things. (Many including jobs that can be best described as "uses guns really well.")

And yeah, it also (and I'm serious here) explains the Postal Service, because the Postal Service (must) hire even more vets than normal because of the unskilled nature of the work.

I'm not suggesting that Vets are more or less likely than the average person to go whacko... I'm just saying that when they do they have the potential of going whacko in a much more spectacular way, and since the Federal government is rife with vets... well... there you go.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer