I saw first-hand last week, KBR has an incredible record of accomplishments in Iraq. Each day we serve nearly a half million meals, provide two million gallons of clean water, wash thousands of bundles of laundry, dispatch nearly 700 trucks on the roads throughout Kuwait and Iraq, and a lot more. We are managing all this in a hostile environment -- an environment that is both difficult and dangerous, and unlike any that a contractor has worked in before...
....As I listened to the two-hour exchange of hostile fire during the night in the Baghdad base camp where many of our employees live, it was clear to me. When we left the "Green Zone" and traveled at high risk through Baghdad's "Red Zone" to attend meetings, it was clear to me. While we are not war fighters, we are clearly a civil company at war. Our employees who live this reality every day need our full support. They all have my respect and they truly are unsung heroes.
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Happy Labor Day to our brave civilian allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, who deserve their own chapter in the history of the world they're working to build today.
Stay safe, FRiends!