Any civilian contractors in afghan, non military.

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Originally Posted by Cutty72

I don't know a single Joe that makes $400k on active duty. Like Dave said, average E-5/E-6 is gonna make between $50k and $70k depending on BAH and dependants.
So, I can get 8 joes working for the same money as one civilian contractor, and i can work those 8 joes 16 hour + days and not pay them any differently. I don't get how contractors can be cheaper if we already have trained soldiers capable of doing the same job...

Military doesn't really grab a lot of engineers though. Every job fair I went to, they were begging for us to enlist and they didn't really grab that many of us. It's hard to get qualified engineers to come out unless they are paid extremely well for it, like say 400k, lol.