Medically retired soldier concludes: "We are pawns" in Iraq

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http://www.denverpost.com/style/ci_4037566

Medically retired soldier concludes: "We are pawns" in Iraq

At what price would you take a job that included scraping human flesh off ambushed Humvees?

What if it also meant working 16 to 20 hours nearly every day in 120-degree temperatures?

As an enlisted soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Peskoff of Fountain took on such a job, overseeing 29 soldiers at a military installation in Mosul, Iraq.

Of course, he didn't know what he was getting himself into.

Taking into account the number of hours he worked each week, his $43,000 salary during his year in Iraq came out to less than $7 an hour.

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1. Hey, its still more

than minimum wage. Whats he complaining about? Double :sarcasm: