AAADawg
Senior Member
The civilians who are in Iraq and Afghanistan are there becuase there country needs them there..they are doing jobs that traditionally were done by soldiers but since the number of standing soldiers has been reduced and the neo-cons started clamoring for privitization of any federal job the result is that contractors are now doing the "in the rear with gear" jobs that soldiers did in Vietnam...like driving trucks, manitianing trucks, preparing meals, purchasing and procureing materials and necessities etc. These people deserve at least as much protection as US soldiers do while in harms way regardless of how much tehy are earning...they are there helping us to do wahtever it is we are attempting to do over there and are just as important as he soldiers in Iraq