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Originally Posted by ShadoWarrior
GIs built hospitals and schools in Iraq? Really? I thought that was done by overpaid contractors, like most everything else that was outsourced in Iraq, including protecting State Department flunkies with PMCs rather than with US Marines.
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Long before the contractors came into play, engineers and seebees were repairing or building schools, hospitals, orphanages, and clinics. One unit in Afghanistan built 52 schools during its tour, to cite one example. Citing another example, a young Afghan girl suffered severe burns from a roadside bomb and required extensive facial reconstruction, care to take a wild guess on who raised the money to send her and her parents to the US to have this surgery? Her surgeon is a National Guard officer who volunteered his time and conviniced his hospital to provide the surgical team and medical care for free. Several hundred villages had wells drilled and are enjoying their first clean water, courtesy of GIs and the list goes on and on and on.
The contractors mostly go after the big money contracts. Where they can jack costs with hazardous duty pay and cost overruns.
PMCs are just a politically correct way of saying mercenaries. But hiring mercenaries is bad and hiring PMCs is good? Didn't the U.S. sign a treaty banning mercenaries? Didn't the State Department refuse to allow U.S. citizens to return to the U.S. after serving as mercenaries? And now the State Department is hiring PMCs? Talk about circular logic!!!