Well just like in the private sector, where things like this happen all the time, those people that were not let go will just have to work a little harder and pick up the little bit of slack created from those that were let go. I've worked on a bunch of DOD projects on multiple bases with resident personnel and with the COE over the years. In summary, nobody is in a real hurry to get to work in the mornings, long lunches, lots and lots of meetings where nothing is ever accomplished, other than wasting time to fill their hours in the day, are all pretty much the norm. Most are not nearly as competent in their fields as they think they are, mainly because a massive number of them have never worked outside of the govt. which is chock full of incompetent and lazy people collecting ridiculous benefits, pension, and salary. It's honestly not their fault, it is the only thing that they've known and they think it is the norm. They simply do not know what it is like to work for a business where you actually have to work whatever hours are required, to produce a product, on time and under budget, and make money doing it, or the business fails. If you cannot do it, they generally find someone to replace you with, that can do it. Accountability is what is lacking in our govt. Yes there are some super hardworking, super intelligent people that work for the govt but they are far outnumbered by the clock punching crew. All will tell you that their job is critical and that they work very hard. Very few salaried personnel in the govt work a single hour past 40hrs in any given week. Especially since all this work from home BS started. Word of advice, when it gets close to 4:00 in the afternoon, make sure you are nowhere near an exit door at any of the facilities, because you could get caught up in the stampede and get trampled. If private companies were run like the govt, there would be no private companies and most would last less than a year before shutting the doors. If the govt did not have the ability to print money out of thin air to cover for their laziness, overstaffed bloated bureaucracy, and in some cases complete incompetence, there would be no government. With sound, competent, fiscally responsible management, much more can be done with far less. It has gone on and grown rapidly, like a cancer, for far far too long. It is time to cut it out or die from it. Like someone said above, it is so big now that a chainsaw has to be used rather than a scalpel and it is going to leave an ugly scar but the patient will survive in the end, but only if the surgery is performed. I feel for those losing their jobs but if they are competent in their field or area of expertise, and hard workers, like all claim to be, then there should be plenty of opportunity in the private sector as our economy rapidly grows under a right sized, better run, fiscally responsible govt.