Foreign civilian workers can make an insane amount of money in Iraq, especially truck drivers. Would you do this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxx1Lo8fZwQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxx1Lo8fZwQ&mode=related&search=)

Nothing graphic here but do be warned about some of the language.

I'd joint the military before I did that stuff. Gotta be scary as hell in a convoy and not have any power...

I've read that over 1000 Government contractors have been killed in Iraq.

-spence

security contractors are making $300K a year, give or take.

high risk, high reward.

downside of being a contractor: rules of engagement are the same as military, and you're limited to nothing more powerful than 7.62 mm NATO when it comes to firepower.

security contractors are making $300K a year, give or take.

high risk, high reward.

downside of being a contractor: rules of engagement are the same as military, and you're limited to nothing more powerful than 7.62 mm NATO when it comes to firepower.

Oh..I'd do that..No question..

nope i like being poor and alive

I'm with Professor M on this one......

Back 25 years ago when I got out of the Army I would have done it in a heartbeat. Now 25 years older and 40#s heavier......not a chance for 10K a month.

nope i like being poor and alive

me too.....

me too.....

ditto on that

If I was closer to retirement I might consider it. Do a few years there, tax free money i uderstand, and sock away enough money to live much more comfortably. I'd then come home with all my money, buy a Rickshaw and be dragged up and down the canal chasing breaking fish!

Nope!:hs:

I have a friend doing that..He is older than me..Probably early sixties..He plans on trying to do 2 years..H e has been over there for about 1/2 year now..Good luck

Wow thats crazy...Anyone who can do that more then 1 time, my hat is off to them

I'd rather go alaskan king crab fishing for twice that pay for half the time

Nope ... especially if you are not able to carry heavier firepower ...

... a guy I work with was in the Marines, he said one of his buddies is now doing security detail over there for Haliburton or one of those companies ... makes more than $250K per year, has saved well over a $1 million since he started there years ago, as he saves all his money and spends nothing, everything is covered ...

... the only thing this guy says about his buddy is that he cannot live here where there is no action, he says the guys is an action junkie and cannot stay here more than a few weeks ...

friend is fluent and he gets the offers all the time in the mail, he's been tacking the letters to his mantle. 300k is good til your be headed... he said.

My Buddy since college lost a close friend who I met a few times. He worked for Blackwater. He survived the helicopter crash and was tracked down, tortured and murdered. He was from Houston.

Don't be so sure about what they are allowed to carry for weapons or contracted to do. You might not really want to know. these should raise some questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXgcQNsUKO0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEvAa_-4lF8&mode=related&search=

And to think....we're only paying the soldiers over there about $1500 a month.......for 4 times the work.

You couldn't pay me enough to do it

I would have done back when I first got out of the army and and had no family to worry about. No worse than what I went through in Nam. Today, I'm too old and too fat.

So after watching the videos what do you think about Blackwater?
Are they a help or a hinderance to our military?
We are paying them right?





Sorry to hijack your thread Katie

Blackwater rocks!

They are also a great training organization. They have basically taken over Heckler & Koch's vaunted International Training Division.

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/training/download.asp

:spin:

Sorry to hijack your thread Katie


Its all good! :kewl: