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Originally Posted by fullerene
There is a market comparable for many military jobs in that they are performed by private contractors, often side by side. In those cases, the drivers, security guards and maintenance workers for KBR, Bechtel and Halliburton pull in double what their enlisted counterparts make.
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That's not entirely accurate. I make a hell of a lot more as a "security guard" then I did as a Marine, but I also don't have ANY of the benefits that I had in the military... no medical, GI Bill, housing, Thrift Savings Plan, etc, etc.
The simple fact is that there are not enough people in the military to do these jobs. If we weren't in Iraq and A-stan, there would be no need for all the extra manpower. It is cheaper to have these jobs done by contractors than to maintain that number of military guys during peacetime. And you're not going to get civilians to leave their homes and risk getting killed (a DAILY risk) for small change.