Reply #48: Your comparing apples and oranges... [View All]

[Solon]

first, the Military is NOT a place where you can get rich, most soldiers earn little more than Minimum Wage, if that, though most meals, etc. are already paid for. More people join the military in PEACETIME, for the jobs, training, or a sense of duty, than they do in wartime, and those in wartime usually only do it for the 3rd reason.

This is far removed from a Blackwater security guy, who earns 6 figures a year volunteering for a PARTICULAR WAR. A soldier in the U.S. Military, who joined up in 1999 for college money, cannot pick and choose which conflict they will fight in, hell, in most cases, they can't even get OUT of the military in this situation. These contractors, on the other hand, are civilians, they are free to quit at anytime, and, considering the money, it IS tempting, they earn more than most middle class people in this nation, hell, many are making a HELL of a lot of money, hundreds of times more than U.S. Soldiers.