1 Month or so at My New Job

So I went out to Washington State the last week of May, to start a new job at Fort Lewis in Tacoma WA. So far the job has been alright, I had thought that this job would be mostly fire work, with some Timber Stand Management, and Timber Sale Preparation. I was a little wrong about that. So far I have spent about 1 week of time actually on fire, and the rest of the time walking through the woods painting blue lines on trees. Which is really boring. But tolerable, what I really can't stand is that some of the people I work with are idiots, my boss for example claims to have all these certifications I know it is impossible for him to have, based on what he says at fires. He claims to be an ICT4, Crew Boss, Burn Boss, Dozer Boss, Helitack Qualified, and a few other things that only really mean something to those who know wildland fire. But He claimed to have gotten all of these certifications in 2 years of work on fire. To get ICT4 status, you need 1000 hours or so of Fire Line time, which means Fire Line Construction and maintenance, which in my nearly 2 months here, I have 3 hours of actual Fire Line Time. So I think and my supervisors from CA think that he is full of it. He has no idea what he is talking about half the time. Also to get ICT4 you need to have commanded forces numbering 30+ people on a wildfire, not prescribed burn or anything like that, for a few hundred hours. We have 10 people working in the same position I am or under my boss, so that is impossible as well. But his incompetence is showing, he basically blamed all of us (people working at GS-0462 pay grade) for directly disobeying orders, and insubordination, for fighting fire in an area that he told us not to fight fire in, and that he did not know where we were on the fire. Except that he got a GPS point of where the Fire Line was located and where the vehicles were parked, and he printed maps for us after he came in, and brought us the maps, so we all know he is lying and trying to save his job.
But it seems wherever I go I have to deal with mass incompetence, and it is really not fun. But I like the fire part that is really fun.