Reply #16: The Devil’s Advocate

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My boyfriend is a reservist stationed in Iraq and currently works with at least one contracted civilian that I know of. He is in a job that is extremely specialized and there are fewer than 3000 guys with his specialty to cover all 52+ wars that we’re fighting. Without these contracted people he would get less than the six hours of sleep he gets now. As it is, he will spend a year and a half in the region, but without civilian contractors, it may have been much more. Before you spit on these corporations, look at the reason we use them: First, we went to fight a war that we didn’t have the staff to support. Second, our government cut the military. Either way it’s not the corporations’ fault, they are just capitalizing on the incompetence of our government leaders.