Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Well, now we're at a point where we agree, although i am rather sure that most of our Intel does not in any way come from private organizations.

I don't have a problem at all with groups like KBR, who had thousands of employees doing things like fixing equipment, serving food, cleaning port-a-johns, and that sort of thing.

Our outpost was too small and unsafe for civilians to hang out at, so we had to do those things ourselves. American Civilians were rare creatures in Iraq outside of the Green zone or the major FOBs.
I don't mind civilians cleaning the toilets (although as sergeant I find it distasteful that civilians should serve the armed forces, we are perfectly capable of cleaning our own toilets and it's part of the whole deal imho).

What I am AGAINST is mercs taking command of forces, mercs running actual operational ops, mercs handling intel ops...

Do NOT come and say that all your civilians contractors cleans toilets and serves food, there is plenty of evidence in the opposite direction.