I hear a lot about "contractors" working for and with the military.  What are they?
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The military is supposed to be self supporting.Set up so that all jobs that need to be done were done by military trained personnel.Although there are still people trained in all MOS's here in IRAQ civilians run the show when it comes to non combat duties freeing the soldiers for patrols,cordon and search and other dangerous jobs.I personally am glad the civilians are here doing what they are doing.No way would i want to be cleaning latrines,picking up trash and other menial labor jobs.\n  It is true that some of the jobs that civilians do should be done by soldiers such as driving trucks on convoys.A soldier  rank of specialist (pay grade E-4) makes around 35 grand yearly depending on marital status and dependants compared to 100 grand for a civilian doing the same job.A civilian doing HVAC will make anywhere from 80grand to 150 grand a year depending on experience while a sgt.pay grad e-5 doing the same job as his or her MOS makes 40 grand.I do not have civilians telling me how to do my job (base security),but they do tell us where we live what we can have in our living quarters and so on.It is my personal belief that NO civilians should be here and swallow my pride when it comes to cleaning latrines and such.During a war civilians need and should be at home where they belong.\n    There are two types of civilians working for the military here in IRAQ KBR and TCN's.TCN's(third country nationals)are laborers they work long hours for little money (by our standards).KBR kellog, brown and root are the specialty workers taking military jobs from the soldiers.These people are supposed to be good at what they do and by what i've seen they are not(that's not to say all are not good at what they do).The minimum a KBR worker makes is 80 grand tax free a year.Example = The area we live in has four generators to provide electricity they are supposed to run in sync so that when one gets overloaded or runs too long another starts up and takes over.The KBR rep. is supposed to know how to make them run in sync,but so far he has not been able to make this happen.When we first got here in july of '05 our power was going out on a daily basis.In 140 degree heat it got very hot very quick.this man makes 8 grand a month and is unable to figure out the problem.The solution? Get a bigger generator so he doesn't have to figure it out.If it was military personell doing this job it would not have cost american tax payers one millon dollars for a new generator the soldiers would be on it night and day until the problem was solved.The kbr person would stop working when it got dark and not worried about it until the next morining.Please understand I am not complaining about our living conditions here.I am an army soldier and can and will adapt to the situation,but if the convenience is available make it work as it should or get rid of the problem = KBR.
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Depends on your terms of hiring. Are you classifying them as emplyees or independant contractors?
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The military is always looking for nurses to recruit.  (But they don't hire civilian help, if that's what you are asking.)
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military contracts are entered into with the military and commercial contracts are with private companies
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Stay away from Iraq.  The contractors are screwing with the labor force there - inticing them with big money offers and then reducing wages and in some cases not paying at all.  And that's besides kidnapping and beheading.\n\nNew Orleans is probably not as dangerous, but some news sources say that many trades people are there with no steady work. Also Homeland Security says they don't have to pay prevailing wage rates.\n\nContact unions and find out what's needed, they may know. Peruse online and NO newspaper classified listings - the Times Picayune is the local paper.   Good luck!
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I read an article last week that made me mad. They currently have a paid voluntary army. It's reported that at any given time like even now during this war time that 25% are ALWAYS on vacation! They usually show up on pay day and during important excerizes only 2/3 of them show up.
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Halliburton is a parent company which owns a number of subsidiaries.  Basically, it's a company that owns companies.\n\nIt's the same idea as a contractor when you are building a house.  You can hire a carpenter and a plumber and an electrician and a decorator.  Or, you can hire a single company that employs all those people and have them do the work.  That single company is Halliburton.
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What a great question... I love how it is worded.... you pretty much got what I thought you would in terms of answers though.  \n\nI am in Iraq now as a civilian contractor after my 3rd recall since 9/11.  After my stint in Kuwait I joined the civilian team and am glad I did.\n\nHUMANIST.... I AM HERE AND HAVE BEEN AS MILITARY AND A CIVILIAN, I AM NOT TOO SCARED TO BE HERE AND I BROUGHT MY LAPTOP WITH ME.... NOW SHUT UP OR JOIN THE EFFORT.
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There are many companies that have civilians working to support the troops in Iraq.\n\nKBR has many people over there doing everything from repairing helicopters to supervising laundry services.\n\nI will warn you that you will work 12-hour days, six days a week.
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Mercenary.\n\nAll Marines talk about how they are professional.  Anyone that gets paid to kill people is usually called a mercenary.
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The companies who build war armaments.  The contractors who go over there to rebuild.
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Longjohn,\n\nMost munitions are made right here in the good 'ole U.S. of A.  Defense contractors bid on specifications given to them by the Defense Department, and the contract is usually given to the lowest bidder that can produce the munition to specifications.\n\nThere are a lot of folks making a good living working within the defense industrial complex.  It used to be a lot bigger, when the defense budget was higher, but it's still quite significant.
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Yes there are many military personnel that are doing the job they committed to do without regard to their personal feelings.\n\nI am ex-military... 1985-1991 and look at me... I am one of the loudest voices against Bush and his madman war.
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The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.\n\nKBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department for an unexpected influx of immigrants, to house people in the event of a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, company executives said. KBR, which announced the contract last month, had a similar contract with immigration agencies from 2000 to last year.\n\nThe contract with the Corps of Engineers runs one year, with four optional one-year extensions. Officials of the corps said that they had solicited bids and that KBR was the lone responder.\n\nA spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jamie Zuieback, said KBR would build the centers only in an emergency like the one when thousands of Cubans floated on rafts to the United States. She emphasized that the centers might never be built if such an emergency did not arise.\n\n"It's the type of contract that could be used in some kind of mass migration," Ms. Zuieback said.\n\nA spokesman for the corps, Clayton Church, said that the centers could be at unused military sites or temporary structures and that each one would hold up to 5,000 people.\n\n"When there's a large influx of people into the United States, how are we going to feed, house and protect them?" Mr. Church asked. "That's why these kinds of contracts are there."\n\nMr. Church said that KBR did not end up creating immigration centers under its previous contract, but that it did build temporary shelters for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.\n\nFederal auditors rebuked the company for unsubstantiated billing in its Iraq reconstruction contracts, and it has been criticized because of accusations that Halliburton, led by Dick Cheney before he became vice president, was aided by connections in obtaining contracts. Halliburton executives denied that they charged excessively for the work in Iraq.\n\nMr. Church said concerns about the Iraq contracts did not affect the awarding of the new contract.\n\nRepresentative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who has monitored the company, called the contract worrisome.\n\n"With Halliburton's ever expanding track record of overcharging, it's hard to believe that the administration has decided to entrust Halliburton with even more taxpayer dollars," Mr. Waxman said. "With each new contract, the need for real oversight grows."\n\nIn recent months, the Homeland Security Department has promised to increase bed space in its detention centers to hold thousands of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. In the first quarter of the 2006 fiscal year, nearly 60 percent of the illegal immigrants apprehended from countries other than Mexico were released on their own recognizance.\n\nDomestic security officials have promised to end the releases by increasing the number of detention beds. Last week, domestic security officials announced that they would expand detaining and swiftly deporting illegal immigrants to include those seized near the Canadian border.\n\nAdvocates for immigrants said they feared that the new contract was another indication that the government planned to expand the detention of illegal immigrants, including those seeking asylum.\n\n"It's pretty obvious that the intent of the government is to detain more and more people and to expedite their removal," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami.\n\nMs. Zuieback said the KBR contract was not intended for that.\n\n"It's not part of any day-to-day enforcement," she said.\n\nShe added that she could not provide additional information about the company's statement that the contract was also meant to support the rapi
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Hello,\n\nMy employer uses Independent Contractors to work on some of our contracts (we also refer to Independent Contractors or 1099s). When we'd like to bring someone on as an IC, I issue a formal agreement between my company and the IC which outlines the relationship of the parties and the rights that each has.\n\nDue to IRS regulations, we have to be very careful to distinguish between an employee and an independent contractor. Were you issued an agreement? If so, that should outline each parties obligations to the other. If you can provide a bit more information as to a possible predicament you may be in, I might be able to help a bit more.
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They try to reduce figures in many different ways. Private contractors die and those death numbers really would have been US troop deaths if they didn't hire so many private contractors. Another way to reduce number people use to gauge the country's sacrifice.
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yes, both, i know some military folks that are over there and i also know some civilian contractors over there making over a hundred grand a year, tax free.....ive only spent time in saudi arabia when i was in the military, never went to iraq