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Originally Posted by KCJohnny
You obviously do not know what you are talking about.
Field case study complete. Thanks.
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My mistake in mis-remembering facts. There is currently a ~1:1 ratio of of civilian contractors to military personel. This represents a FIVEFOLD to TWENTYFOURFOLD increase in the ratio, rather than the 5:1 civilian/military ratio I had originally alluded.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congr...80812_5175.php
In its report, CBO said there are now more civilian workers than U.S. military personnel in the Iraq, where American forces now number about 144,000 troops. CBO officials estimated that more than 190,000 contract personnel were in the Iraq theater, 160,000 of them in Iraq, with the rest in nearby countries.
About 20 percent of the contract employees were Americans, CBO said.
The report, requested by the Senate Budget Committee, did not list the names of the major contractors but said they number in the hundreds.
CBO officials compared the use of civilians during past wars and found that the 1-to-1 ratio of contract personnel to U.S. troops in Iraq is higher than the ratio in other major U.S. military conflicts, with the exception of the Balkans in the 1990s when there were only about 20,000 military personnel and the same number of contractors.
The ratio during World War II was one contractor to 24 U.S. service personnel. In Vietnam, it was 1-to-5.