Reply #5: In WWII [View All]

[Blue Wally]

Everything was pretty much military. Robert McNamara got Brown and Root started in the contracting business during Vietnam. The idea was to have the maximum number of soldiers on the line (given the troop ceilings in Vietnam) while contracting out any function that was "housekeeping". Essentially, all house keepiong, kitchen police, and base operations functions are run by contractors. You would have to virtually double the size of the army without increasing rifle strength to make all of these army functions "green suit".