The Bastards

[donsu]

http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=Special%20Reports%20Hack.db&command=viewone&op=t&id=21&rnd=619.0602275091728

Some Of Army's Civilian Contractors Are No-Shows In Iraq

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Though conditions have improved, the problems raise new concerns about the Pentagon's growing global reliance on defense contractors for everything from laundry service to combat training and aircraft maintenance. Civilians help operate Navy Aegis cruisers and Global Hawk, the high-tech robot spy plane

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"We thought we could depend on industry to perform these kinds of functions," Lt. Gen. Charles S. Mahan, the Army's logistics chief, said in an interview.

One thing became clear in Iraq. "You cannot order civilians into a war zone," said Linda K. Theis, an official at the Army's Field Support Command, which oversees some civilian logistics contracts. "People can sign up to that -- but they can also back out."

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Thanks to overlapping contracts and multiple contracting offices, nobody in the Pentagon seems to know precisely how many contractors are responsible for which jobs -- or how much it all costs.
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you want evil? here are two evil words: deregulation and privitization

[bpilgrim]

1. they wanna be around to spend all the money, they ain't stupid ;-)

maybe privitization was a good thing after all by putting another break on our rush to war everywhere.

the soilders serving there ain't gonna forget though when it comes time to vote.

Bring'em Home!

peace

[never cry wolf]

2. What a moran

Rummy is. Privatize the logistics, gee, no problem with that, huh??

[Clete]

3. Hmm. When they signed those contracts, was there a

clause about not serving their contracts in time of war? If there was, shouldn't the military have a backup plan?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. hey bushco* doesn't reality suck?