Any civilian contractors in afghan, non military.

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Originally Posted by Cutty72

There is the advantage (to the govt) of the guard.
They have people that are engineers on the civilian side that can carry that knowledge and experience over to their deployments.

You still won't have a lot there either. A good qualified engineer won't be in the guard because they will clear enough cash at home just as an engineer, unless they are bored and want to go play weekend warrior. To get those engineering vets, you need to throw a lot of dough at them. There is engineering contractors that can stay at home and clear a couple hundred K just going around hitting 7 days a week work doing nothing but plant outages.