How much of a raise would a GI of gotten if the 900 million we paid blackwater was paid to our men instead?

Question

Contractors are just honorable soldiers? How many do you know? How about the Columbian special forces, the El Salvadoran special units the Honduran units, the special ops camp built on the Caspain Sea training troops from any nation in world especially if they were special unit personnel? Funny what some children do for just two points when they know nothing of the subject but still use leftist and conspiracy slurs to try and appear superior. It is not hard to see why country is now basicly under martial law as so many idiots are running around they paid 130 million for camps that the idiots want to put everyone in and are eagerly awaiting the orders to do so. Lets hope that someday some of those foreign grown Blackwater troops do not have to come into your area and move your a##'s out of as they are applying through FEMA to act as preliminary police in disaster areas.

Answer 1

Nothing. But nice try. Keep it up, I am bored and need this leftist stuff to entertain me.

Answer 2

I doubt it would have been much at all. Raises for the military are controlled by Congress and are closely tied to the cost of living...in addition, Congress looks at the three main types of military folks (Enlisted, Warrant Officer, and Officer) differently...a 2% raise for the Enlisted guys does not mean that officers will also get a 2% raise (necessarily). That's why there were targeted raises to Warrant Officers and senior Enlisted this year, as those two categories had not been keeping up with the others over the last decade or so.

I am a liberal (for the most part) and I understand the spirit of your question, but it's more of an apples-oranges type thing.

Answer 3

They would have gotten a $0.93 a day extra.

That is if you count the National guard.

$1.73 per day extra is you didn't count the National Guard.

Of course, then they would have to be deployed more often, with less time between deployments to cover the jobs Blackwater is doing.

Answer 4

The money wouldn't go to pay raises anyway.

We need firms like Blackwater to help with training. There simply aren't enough soldiers.

Answer 5

a much better enlistment bonus that's for sure, and maybe everyone in the army would've gotten the hk.416.

I said it before I will say it again the armed forces are people to be admired and respected contractors are just honorable soldiers that retired or left for more lucrative means.

Answer 6

you mean blackwater... the company producing new and better weapons for our troops... yeah we would not want that would we?

funny, the far left moans and groans about being ill-equipped but then complains money is being spent fixing the problem.

silly left winger, conspiracy theories are for kids.

Answer 7

Nothing compared to the money they could of gotten if the government hadn't wasted trillions of dollars on entitlement programs wrought with fraud.

Answer 8

None, it would have required perhaps re-instituting the draft.

Answer 9

God, if only, I could use a raise.