Reply #10: Don't forget TCN's

[JonLP24]

Though I highly doubt their numbers are officially reported. The news never mentions them but TCN stands for Third-Country Nationals. Most of them are from India but many come from countries in Africa, Philippines, and other places I can't quite remember. They were responsible for construction of bases, serving food in dining facilities at bases, doing transportation missions with transportation units in the armed forces, cleaning and sucking shit out of port o' potties in bases, as well as other jobs.

I was in a transportation unit so we had 20 or so going with us on every mission with 5 Army trucks hauling supplies and 2 bobcats in-case a truck went down due to an IED or EFP so it can haul a trailer from a disabled truck. The TCN's make around $400 US while their boss who their employers usually task someone who speaks good English so he can get info from troops and relay it too others. He makes about $700 a month. The reason why they have high casualties is because they drive Mercedes semi-truck and trailers that have NO ARMOR, just fiberglass. For 4-5 years they didn't wear any armor on their body but started to on many of them but not all but their armor is not as strong as the ones troops wear.

Not ranting at you specifically but when I hear about death counts or what not TCN's are never included and most people here in the US don't even know they exist or the HUGE contribution they provided in helping US & coalition forces.