[lodi90]

Likely got his refugee green card based on his work for the US amid claims of insecurity in Iraq. Then hot tailed it back to Iraq for a nice contractor paycheck. What a deal until he bought the farm.

[sockmonkey]

I know a former special ops person who was heading to Africa as a contractor for just under $40,000 a month.

[Zhang Fei]

[Likely got his refugee green card based on his work for the US amid claims of insecurity in Iraq. ]

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Living inside the wire and outside the wire are very two different things. Inside the wire, you have on-call air support and veritable phalanxes of sentries and firepower to ward off nasties. Outside the wire, you’re just waiting for the click of the firing pin before a bullet lodges itself in your skull. Living in Iraq, the terps also had to worry about their kin, who were targeted for abduction and murder.