Gerald
04-18-11, 05:50 PM
We go to war because of the men on our left and right. Since 9/11, we should probably add to that the contractors in the rear providing us food, drinks and organizing basketball tournaments. Maybe we don’t fight for them, but we certainly couldn’t fight without them. This situation isn’t good or bad, it just is.
When I was in Afghanistan, my unit had to hire interpreters to talk to locals. They were contractors, though we didn’t think of them like that. In the Korangal, we struggled to keep them from going on leave, and never returning. Throughout our battalion, we struggled to staff enough of them. My platoon had two interpreters, and we still struggled to operate across our district.
At Bagram Air Field, I ate food made by KBR employees. In Kunar Province, my company hired locals to cook the food that had been flown in by contracted helicopters. And when our radios broke, the Army flew in a contractor to fix them.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/one-soldiers-experience-with-one-nation-under-contract/?ref=world
Note: April 18, 2011, 11:12 am
When I was in Afghanistan, my unit had to hire interpreters to talk to locals. They were contractors, though we didn’t think of them like that. In the Korangal, we struggled to keep them from going on leave, and never returning. Throughout our battalion, we struggled to staff enough of them. My platoon had two interpreters, and we still struggled to operate across our district.
At Bagram Air Field, I ate food made by KBR employees. In Kunar Province, my company hired locals to cook the food that had been flown in by contracted helicopters. And when our radios broke, the Army flew in a contractor to fix them.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/one-soldiers-experience-with-one-nation-under-contract/?ref=world
Note: April 18, 2011, 11:12 am