This.
Depends on where you are at, but typically they don’t let the contractors outside the wire. All my friends that did it never left the base or had an armed escort for the short times they did leave the base. You have to remember these contractor jobs are typically IT or other desk jobs and there are soldiers who are pulling security and doing all the other stuff. It’s not like you will be riding along on convoys with the soldiers, that is what the soldiers do. The contractors generally are confined to base and most of them have no issues not leaving the bases.
Ya Im in the Construction Management profession and have contemplated doing some work over seas, and Im worried about kidnapping chances. In construction, many companies have money put aside incase someone gets kidnapped, kinda an insurance. But this makes things worse because many of these kidnappers know this info and that if they kidnap you, the companies will most likely pay since they have the money set aside. A scary thought.
Take note I’m Canadian. It sounds dangerous. I would be afraid.
you’re gambling with your new life. you can do more for your wife and kids alive than as a loaded account. also you don’t know what you’re going to run into over there, could be some stuff that scars you mentally, makes day to day living/interacting with your family harder
That’s exactly who they are looking for. Civlilians.
They can’t hire non-civilians (i.e. military/armed forces members) because they are already under contract with the government. There are no “free agents” in the military. Anybody serving is under a contract.
Civilians however, in general, your average non-military resident, is what they are looking to hire. Civilians for the most part, aren’t under contract with their employer. My friend I mentioned earlier in the thread had no military experience when was hired. He was just a civilian with a degree.
Being ex-military helps for certain jobs. (physical/weapon security details). And active military can still apply for the jobs, but they won’t get hired unless their duty contract is up before the job start date. (Or the employer is willing to hold that spot for the person, until their contract is actually up and free from the military)
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I’ve done a tour in Iraq in the Army and was at a camp that had civilian workers there also. The pay, at the time, for a civilian contractor was ridiculous. I knew a guy that worked on Apaches, Black Hawks and the like, doing exactly the same job as the soldier next to him, making 10X more then that soldier will have made during his tour, and doesn’t have to do Army stuff. Once he’s done for the day, he goes to the mess hall, gets a nice meal, has time to enjoy the meal and can spend the rest of his evening flirting with women at the PX and chilling while the soldier I mentioned before is in formation with full gear, ready to be sent to his guard point with his only meal of the day being an MRE that was made about the time he was born.
That same civilian told my buddy he was getting this in cash once he got back to the states: http://www.lamborghinigallardopic.com/lamborghinigallardo/car/pictures/2010/10/2006-lamborghini-gallardo-se-fa-1024x768.jpg
I ended up getting an RX8 when I got back to the states…
I did envy that guy a lot. He was over weight, seemed like anything he did was more of an effort then it should have been. But fucking A, that guy made a killing out there.
But reason why, Mr. Lambo and other US civilians get paid a lot because shit does happen over there. Besides the motor rounds, rpgs, rocket attacks, snipers hiding, supply trucks getting hit/hijacked and or used as a moving bomb. During my time, civilians and even military personal were getting abducted, kid napped, sometimes even in the safety behind the wire(within the camp or base). It’s scary. I don’t know how Afghan is, I knew of a kid that I used to work with that ended up getting a temp job over there so it might not be as bad as it could be.