[Peace-discuss] Pentagon Has No Idea What 108, 000 Contractors Are Doing

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Contraction is the opposite of military expansion
as you can plainly C.



On 06/05/13 22:28, Rohn Koester wrote:
> Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing
> By DAVID FRANCIS, The Fiscal Times June 3, 2013
>
> The number of contractors working in Afghanistan now vastly outnumbers 
> American troops stationed there, according to a Congressional Research 
> Service report. CRS, along with the Government Accountability Office, 
> also determined that the Pentagon is unable to properly document the 
> work these contractors are doing. And the information DOD is receiving 
> is often unreliable and inaccurate.
>
> According to CRS, there are now 108,000 private workers in 
> Afghanistan, a workforce that dwarfs the 65,700 American troops still 
> stationed there. That means there are 1.6 contractors for every 
> American soldier in Afghanistan. This is an increase from last month, 
> when The Fiscal Times reported that there were 1.4 contractors per 
> American soldier.
>
> http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/06/03/Pentagon-Has-No-Idea-What-108K-Contractors-Are-Doing.aspx#page1
>
>
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