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TR,
I would agree with you that if they are armed they should be a service member, but you also hit the nail on the head when you spoke about raising the money for your 11B's.
Most everyone I know that works for BW does it for the money. If the Army paid more money, I don't think I would have ever left active duty. Liquidating the entire debt of your family in less than one year is great. I think Soldiers, trigger pullers, should be paid much more. People, companies make boat loads of cash off of these wars. Meanwhile, Joe Snuffy the E3 suffering the consequencs and bearing the load is paid peanuts.
Mama wants a new house, kids need a good school, nice having no debt, good living conditions, and the food is better. Could the Army pay 100k for being stateside, and 200K for combat duty per annum, per Soldier? I guess it comes down to quality of life for Soldiers and their families. If the PMC's through their existence can get the military to take better care of its people, I think they've been useful, at least in that regard.
But to what end? The DoD, DoS, and OGA's pay these companies to perform, if they wanted to, they could dry up the well tomorrow, but they don't. I guess we have to ask why don't the Administrators of these Departments do away with them?
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National Guard Marksmanship Training Center
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