"TCNs" or third-country nationals employed at Gitmo

[realFedUp]

Does anyone know more about the "TCNS" employed by
the contractors at Gitmo who earn $25 a day doing
manual labor at the marina, cooking etc. Is any
press reporting about these people? Is
KB&R employing them in places like Iraq and
Afghanistan? A type of slave labor isn't it?
Supposedly if they work so many years they get
U.S. citizenship.

Thanks for any info you can add.

[evlbstrd]

1. When I was stationed there many years ago,

they were Cuban and Jamaican nationals. At the time, I think the Navy paid them.
I don't know what the current arrangement is.

[realFedUp]

2. So you were stationed there prior to 9/11?

and the Navy employed TCNS then also?
I wonder if Erik Saar talks about them
in his book Behind the Wire?

[evlbstrd]

3. I was there in the 70s.

Every Naval base employs civilians, and overseas, they employ locals as well as U.S. civil servants. GTMO is not unusual in this regard.

[realFedUp]

4. thanks....nt

[realFedUp]

5. Is the government the largest employer of illegal aliens?

when does an illegal alien become one...on American soil
or American military bases? Someone should ask that question.