Promotional Considerations

I simply must offer my belated congratulations to the latest research geotechnical engineer at the Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory to be promoted to the GS-15/DBV level.

Why the kudos for the kind of advance through the ranks that's happens every day in government? Because the geotechnical engineer in question is none other than Sally A. Shoop. She's no relation (that I'm aware of, anyway), but we Shoops have to stick together.

According to a press release issued June 20, Shoop's "expertise lies in the impact of terrain on vehicle performance and maneuvers, vehicle and soils instrumentation and testing, terrain strength and constitutive representation, moisture migration and numerical modeling." Looks like she's swimming in the deep end of the Shoop gene pool.