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.
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.
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!
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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
I'd rather go alaskan king crab fishing for twice that pay for half the time
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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 ...
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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.
Last edited by GattaFish; 05-22-2007 at 09:33 AM..
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.
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