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Originally Posted by Mr. Cool Ice
No sir, I used to work at KBR, Inc as an engineer. I got sick of spending an hour or two, morning and night, being driven in a bus to a work site while locals took pop shots at us and planted IED's in the road. A man can only take so much of that, regardless of the pay.
I've spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan and I can tell you that what is happening in both of those countries is completely different than the media is reporting. Though, my ass was mostly protected by PMC's, I did spend a lot of time around the military, and those boys are not over there for any other reason than drugs and oil. Any conflict they do have is brought on themselves for running the locals off their own poppy fields and land. It's a mess.
The media has spun this "war" and it shames me as a human to hear about it. It is not the truth, not even close to the truth. It's about greed.
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I have a few friends that work for a PMC, working in shit holes around the world, usually doing shit the US military is not allowed to do, but each of them have spent time in Afghanistan and Iraq. Each one of them has told me pretty much the same as what you've said, that it's all a bunch of lies.
In fact, they said THEY (the mercs who work for the PMC's) have grown in numbers, hired by the US government, so as they bring US troops home, they are actually just replacing them with mercenaries who do not have to follow any protocol or rules. All the while telling the American people they are bringing troops home and it's all a success. Fucking crazy.