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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/March 15, 2006 -- Day two of Special Forces conference features private contractors like Halliburton and "My God is bigger than theirs" Lt. Gen. Boykin. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano, the former Army Program Manager for both the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) and Donald Rumsfeld's favorite pet, the National Missile Defense Program, and currently Vice President for Contingency and Homeland Operations for Halliburton, stressed that contractors on the battlefield are here to stay. Cosumano said that Halliburton/Kellogg Brown & Root now has over 52,000 U.S. expatriate, host country nationals, and third country nationals deployed to 94 operating bases in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey, Dubai, Jordan and other countries around the world. Cosumano, who, as Director of Force Development for the Army Chief of Staff, was instrumental in developing the LOGCAP program on which Halliburton gained a virtual lock while Dick Cheney was Halliburton's President and CEO, now heads up Halliburton's LOGCAP contract in one of the most flagrant revolving door escapades ever seen in Defense Department contracting.
Cosumano stated, "we are not going back and can't go back" to pre-contractor wars.
Cosumano showed a slide of blue jeans/blue shirt-clad Halliburton contractors standing in military formation with active duty military personnel. Halliburton trains 250 contractors per week at its Houston Support Office and surged trained as many as 750 personnel in one week, according to Cosumano.
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