BRIBING TROOPS TO QUIT = Blackwater versus National Defense

[L. Coyote]

Ralph Peters:
BRIBING TROOPS TO QUIT = Blackwater versus National Defense
Oct. 6, 2007 - http://www.nypost.com/seven/10062007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bribing_troops_to_quit.htm?page=1

THE problems with military outsourcing go far beyond last month's massacre of civilians by Blackwater USA's hired guns: Wartime profiteers are bleeding our military.

Astonishingly, contractors are free to approach those in uniform, offer them generous salaries to leave their service in wartime, then profit from the skills your tax dollars taught them.

This isn't just about Navy SEALS or other special operators. In intelligence, for example, we train young soldiers for complex missions and expensively process their security clearances - then contractors bribe them to leave the military, raking in big bucks from your investment in their new employee.

Maybe we could look the other way in peacetime. But we're fighting multiple wars. ....................

[seemslikeadream]

1. and the New York Post has been looking where?

for the last 4 years????

[ShortnFiery]

4. I think the problem boils down to recruitment. If I had an "of age" child

the LAST job I would encourage them to sign up for would be any form of military service. :shrug:

[Toots]

2. Tax Payers spent millions training Bush* to be a fighter pilot

No sooner was the training complete and Bush* told the tax payers "fuck you" I will not use any of the very expensive training I was given, I quit. He got into the Guard because he was a coward and did not want to go to Vietnam and "have his ears shot out". He knew with the training he had he would/could be sent to Vietnam because fighter pilots were needed. He bailed on America then and he will do it again..Bush* is a LIAR and a COWARD and has been his whole life..

[ShortnFiery]

3. IMO, the pool of high quality mercenaries to choose from (SF, Rangers, SEALS, Pathfinder, Recon etc)

will soon dry up. Those Soldiers/Sailors/Marines who are *that highly trained* require close to a decade to TRAIN up to operating independently. Further, despite the sentimentality of old Merc flicks "The Wild Geese" the operations of Mercenaries are "for youth" only. Unless one in their 40s stay in premiere shape, they can easily become a physical drag to operations.

NOPE, Quality Mercs just don't grow on trees. :shrug:

[TomClash]

5. This happened to my nephew as he was getting off the plane

upon return from Iraq.

He hurled expletives at the contractor's representative.