Oh, I know that. But try explaining it to the local car-bomb crowd.
damn, really? What kind of percentages are we talking here?
Blackwater, etc. Hired killers.
Pay depends on risk level, job description, and ability.
A “designated shooter” will make more than a standard field grunt and a field medical technician will make more than a shooter.
By that logic, so is the infantry. What’s your point?
Just saying who the hired(civilian) people are. He said no combat people were hired. Blackwater isn’t there to fix computers. 
It’s Xi now and they are just one of the bigger ones. Dyna corps, triple canopy, etc. etc. If no one saw it, it never happened.
Yeah since Iraq is starting to “stabilize” they are closing a lot of FOB’s there now and packing up, and as far as Afghanistan goes I haven’t heard of any more troops shifting this way. Besides this is a NATO was not a US war, and I know the Polish are pulling out of RC east in about a year when their contract is up. I work in Polish owned battle space and they don’t even know who is going to take over when their gone. The Army is also downsizing people are getting kicked out for small things not like it used to be where you could fail a pt test miserably and stay in, I’ve watched about a dozen people get discharged for various reasons from my company. As far as these contractors go, I don’t even know why they are here, most are getting paid six figures to run a D-FAC and others are making upwards of half mil, all they got to pay us is 50k-70k a year and we go out the wire.