One Soldier’s Experience With One Nation Under Contract

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The numbers also dramatically show — and hopefully General Officers take notice — that contracting is multiplying. How many contractors are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Don’t worry if you don’t know; the Pentagon doesn’t know for sure either. In 2007, the Pentagon thought it had 25,000 contractors working for it in Iraq. Turns out the number was closer to 180,000. How many people does the Pentagon contract as workers worldwide? 5.2 million as of 2005. As of 2007, the Pentagon stopped keeping track altogether.

WOW. This is really bad.