US Army Hires Shitload Of New Contractors

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: This reminds me of 'We had to burn the village to save it'.




Army continues to grow contracting work force
By Kate Brannen - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Sep 15, 2010 19:53:22 EDT

While the Pentagon begins scaling back to meet Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ efficiency goals, those in charge of the U.S. Army acquisition work force are on a hiring spree to make the Pentagon more efficient.

[n2doc]

1. Only the military could link 'hiring spree' with 'more efficient' n/t

[msongs]

2. Obamafication of the military. sounds kinda like the Bushification of the military nt

[Fla_Democrat]

3. and they call this a jobless recovery......

:smoke:

[Panaconda]

4. K&R n/t

[w8liftinglady]

5. why am I not surprised?of course,there's nothing for the troops when they get home...

hmmm...work at Burger King for 7.50/hr or Dyncorp for over 100K a year?
I know because my kid went back as a contractor...when he couldn't find a job after 3 tours in Iraq
This site,meant to support contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan,has a huge amount of data for Iraq and Afghanistan vets
http://www.americancontractorsiniraq.com/

[chill_wind]

6. See? Who says we don't have a major Jobs program? n/t

[burnsei sensei]

7. The evisceration of the military institution

goes apace I see.
Our greatest enemies, the greatest source of subversion in this country, comes in the form of people who have investment income and think it's their duty to steer this nation according to their self-interest.
Where is the guillotine when we need it so badly?