DiamondDave
Army Vet
I have some of those "mercs" in my office. Most of them are civil engineers; the rest are GIS and IT.
You think every contractor is a gun-toter? Dumbass.
Yeah, right....they're all non-combatants.....just like corpsmen, right?
pretty much. is being stupid painful or do you just not notice?
The command includes about 2,800 military and civilian positions supported by 3,000 contractors at an annual cost of $240 million. Its responsibilities, which include managing the allocation of global forces and running programs to press the armed services to work together on the battlefield, will be reassigned, mostly to personnel working under the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.
Mr. Gates also called for a 10 percent annual reduction in spending on contractors who provide support services to the military, including money for intelligence-related contracts, and he placed a freeze on the number of workers in the office of the secretary of defense, other Pentagon supervisory agencies and the headquarters of the militarys combat commands.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/us/10gates.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=robert gates&st=cse
Always good to see someone virtually bitch slap this idiot asshole troll Mr. SheMan