The department of homeland security's assault on the National Fire Academy (NFA) continues. In December, it slashed the NFA's course development budget by another 28 percent, for a grand total (thus far) of 48 percent in two years. Why does the DHS, and specifically its gigantic Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP) directorate, pick on the NFA? The NFA represents an obstacle to ODP's goal of controlling all federally funded training for first responders. Take away the NFA's course development budget, and you remove its relevance. Take away relevance, and it'd be curtains for the NFA.
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