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ONE STEP CLOSER | Horses were once as much a part of the cavalry as the soldiers themselves. Today, the Humvee has replaced the trusty steed. Still, Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald Howell, 49, finds working among the horses at his family's farm in Spring Grove nearly as relaxing as playing golf - although these days, he rarely finds time to hit the greens. A guardsman lives in many habitats," Howell explains. "We have families and civilian jobs, and we're soldiers." When not preparing to become "mayor" of a forward operating base in Iraq or helping his 76-year-old mother care for their eight horses, Howell works as a machine operator for Honeywell.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most military reservists who left their civilian jobs to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan made more money there than in their regular jobs, according to a study that contradicts the notion that citizen soldiers lose money when they go to war. The study, by RAND's National Defense Research Institute, found that 72 percent of the troops surveyed made more while on war duty in 2002 or 2003 than they did in their civilian jobs in 2001. More than half made at least $10,000 more.
Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Labor Department reports receiving greater numbers of complaints under a 1994 law designed to give Guard and Reserve troops their old jobs back, or provide them with equivalent positions. Benefits and raises must be protected, as if the serviceman or servicewoman had never left.
WASHINGTON - Most military reservists who left their civilian jobs to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan made more money there than in their regular jobs, according to a study that contradicts the notion that citizen soldiers lose money when they go to war. The study, by RAND's National Defense Research Institute, found that 72 percent of the troops surveyed made more while on war duty in 2002 or 2003 than they did in their civilian jobs in 2001. More than half made at least $10,000 more.
It's one of the most dangerous civilian jobs in one of the world's most dangerous countries: translating Arabic for the U.S. military in Iraq. One by one, little noticed in the daily mayhem, dozens of interpreters have been killed -- mostly Iraqis but 12 Americans, too. They account for 40 percent of the 300-plus death claims filed by private contractors with the U.S. Labor Department.
The alleged U.S. abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, and the suggestion that contract employees may have been among those responsible, has cast a spotlight on the military's extraordinary reliance on civilian contractors to perform even the most sensitive jobs. Consider this: During the first Gulf War, U.S. forces employed one civilian contractor in Iraq for every 60 active- duty personnel. At the start of the current Iraq war, that figure was about one in 10. Contractors, in Iraq and elsewhere, are doing much more than building camps, preparing food and doing laundry for troops. They support M1 tanks and Apache helicopters on the battlefield; they train American forces, Army ROTC units and even foreign militaries under contract to the United States. And they've ...
I am here because I have been on the front line of America's presence in the world, in some of the most difficult security environments; and I know that the U.S. cannot rely on military power alone to keep us safe from terrorism, infectious disease, economic insecurity, and other global threats that recognize no borders. [...] I know that the military should not do what is best done by civilians. Ms. Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps; Reuben Brigety, Ph.D., Director of the Sustainable Security Program Center for American Progress Action Fund; and The Honorable Philip L. Christenson, Former Assistant Administrator, United States Agency for International Development can be viewed in their entirety at: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/111/lin031809.pdf
... access to decent health care, education, and jobs. To be clear, all the military instrument can do i... the two wars we are already fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although we have a profound econo...
According to a 2007 Congressional Research Service report, most contracts supporting American operations in Iraq involve local companies and employees.3 Their employment creates jobs and supports economic development, a key tenet in counterinsurgency doctrine.4 Furthermore, many of the contracted services require unskilled labor. [...] the private sector has proven more flexible and responsive than the government's civilian workforce in providing skilled workers willing to serve in dangerous locations. Washington's Continental Army employed contract teamsters to move supplies, and during World War II, many American plants converted from producing consumer goods to producing military equipment. [...] the end of the Cold War, however, the Pentagon relied primarily on a large, expensive...
...Angry civilians become tools in the hands of anti-Western insurgen... the discretionary spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet less than 13 percent of that ... willing and able to take the kind of jobs that require becoming part of a PRT. Those who are...
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