Vantaggi
My immediate lead and program manager did an excellent job at ensuring that I was well taken care of, as far as loking for additional job opportunities.
Svantaggi
Compensation and reward are sometimes lacking especially for those who are forward deployed in a hostile environments. I felt sometimes that because I was deployed, I was out of sight and out of mind. Pay raises and compensation for deployed personnel also lagged behind those in CONUS. Medical support for employees in hazardous duty area's is no longer being provided by the DOD, other than for loss of sight, limb, or resuscitation. Unfortunately for most of the forward deployed bases there is no private medical care available. I understand that this is a DOD policy, not GD's, but GD has not provided a viable solution to this problem. Having employees in a hazardous duty zone with no medical care is, in my opinion, irresponsible.