These people arrived wearing the (1) one set of fatigues each had. The enlisted force had no footwear other than what they had, many arrived wearing flip flops, a few were barefoot. The unit had no, absolutely no heavy equipment or personal equipment items. When confronted the Bengalee Bn CO blandly stated that his country agreed to provide a battalion, no one said anything about arms or equipment of any kind. So FU Uncle Sap.
Of course we fully equipped these worthless drones. The Bengalees had sent the dumbest and most backward people they could find. Others did that also. The Pak unit was a joke in their army and they were both cowardly and very abusive to Somalians. The Paks thought it was great fun to drive several of their trucks at speed through a street bazaar.
What I have found is that these are usually patronage and corruption assignments. Its a real benefit for the NCOs to get out of the country, even to Somalia, and there might be extra pay involved. For the officers there might be potential for big corruption, kickbacks, smuggling foreign goods on the way home, etc..