http://www.progressinaction.com/afghanistan/legislation-introduced-to-remove-private-military-contractors-from-wars/ Progress in Politics Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:08:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.progressinaction.com/afghanistan/legislation-introduced-to-remove-private-military-contractors-from-wars/#comment-18 Nikolai Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:50:36 +0000 http://www.progressinaction.com/?p=440#comment-18 Gee, why doesn't the gov't increase the military pay scale, especially for experienced soldiers, and start getting rid of the mercs? If they pay the mercs 4-5 times what they pay regular military, the gov't could pay the same amount of soldiers 3x their current pay and be way ahead. Of course, we're talking about the U.S. gov't... Damn! Never mind... Gee, why doesn’t the gov’t increase the military pay scale, especially for experienced soldiers, and start getting rid of the mercs? If they pay the mercs 4-5 times what they pay regular military, the gov’t could pay the same amount of soldiers 3x their current pay and be way ahead. Of course, we’re talking about the U.S. gov’t… Damn! Never mind…

]]> http://www.progressinaction.com/afghanistan/legislation-introduced-to-remove-private-military-contractors-from-wars/#comment-16 genomega Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:58:26 +0000 http://www.progressinaction.com/?p=440#comment-16 Then they will have to increase the size of the military big time. Then they will have to increase the size of the military big time.

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