I know someone who got fired from Iraq

[underpants]

I wasn't sure how to tell this because I don't want to be too specific (for privacy-this really doesn't rank as a matter of national security :crazy: ) so I lead with the punchline.

I know this guy through my family who signed up and went over to Iraq to do some contract work. Security related, instructing not actually doing-this yahoo is a real LOSER (and I rarely use that word). A real boob, moron, moran, piece of work, etc. I was told that he was going over there to help instruct the Iraqis on police matters run of the mill cop on the beat type stuff...had to be this bozo isn't capable of much else.

The pay?? $10K a month TAX FREE!!!! <----imagine that part blinking in lights.

That's it. 120K a year or $2,500 a week. They are spending a BILLION a week over there and this nincompoop settles for that.

Anyway so since HE is contracted that would mean that the company who hired him is contracting him out to US at 150-200-300% that amount.

Over the holiday weekend I was sitting around with some family and we were talking about everyone "What about ______?" I asked in a polite way (I really don't care except for the familial contacts) "He's back"

"He's back? ... from Iraq"

"Yeah"

"I thought he was going for a year"

"Well he was over there for 4 months and he said that they wanted him to do things in an unsafe way or something about not being safe so he left and came back"

"Is he still working for the same company?"
"No"
"Is he talking about getting some other work with them?"
"No"
"So he's not going back to Iraq either?"
"No"

ME:
"HUH? Okay he either signed up for something he wasn't clear about what he was going to do meaning he got scared AND was being even more underpaid than you would have already thought (I muttered something about being a complete wad at this point) OR he got fired."

Looks around the room were exchanged

"Yeah I think they sent him back he is a bit of a nut case you know"

We talked and laughed about him some more. Everyone seems to have come to the conclusion that he got fired.

Who the hell gets fired from IRAQ!?!? for crying outloud. Well, apparently this guy did. Geesh the company making money off him didn't even want a billable body around he was either that much of an ass, that unstable, or that useless or some combination of that.

Fired from Iraq. How would you like to have that on your resume?

TRUE STORY.

[sui generis]

1. he wasn't one of the guys driving around in an Aegis van

shooting people in traffic and filming it and laughing at the poor freshly dead people was he?

I'm still missing pieces of my skull after the top of my head blew off watching it.

[underpants]

3. I must have missed that video

Not that I know of to answer your question.

[sui generis]

7. here's the link

http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/contract/

[SCDem]

2. But paying him that kind of money I guess there is no incentive to stay

longer.
I mean he got paid more than I do in a year and he worked only for four months.

[underpants]

5. I guess not

Funny he can just leave. See ya thats enough for me thanks.

[SCDem]

9. Better deal than the military

Where you have people not paid squat and then they do their service but because of stop loss are called back and required to put in more time.

I thought the Republican party supported the military. It seems like now all they support is the military industrial complex itself not the people inside.

I heard on NPR yesterday that returning servicemen have 3X as high unemployment rate as do other people their age.

[ellenfl]

12. you have just realized this?

It seems like now all they support is the military industrial complex itself not the people inside.

it's always been about the mic, not the troops.

ellen fl

[MADem]

4. His cash may not be tax free

I am not familiar with present day tax law, but years ago, I remember they had something called, I think, the "180 Day Rule" where, in order to get that tax break, you had to stay out of the country 180 days out of the calendar year, and then you would be taxed at a lower rate. I knew some pals who worked over in the ME who had to arrange their work schedules and vacations in order to avoid being in the states for too long, in order to avoid taxes.

[SmokingJacket]

6. I'd take him out for a beer or four...

and let him tell you the whole story. I'm sure it's interesting...

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Why tax free? n/t

[SCDem]

10. Money made overseas is tax free

that's also how they try to lieu teachers into teaching overseas.

[1932]

13. The tax credit isn't unlimited. It's about 90K or so now.

However, I think they have a special rule for Iraq only that is either higher or unlimited (but I could be wrong).

[LisaLynne]

11. There is a friend of some of my clueless relatives ...

who was over "working" in Iraq for all of about two months before mysteriously ending up back home. I've always wondered what the deal was. I wonder how much of this sort of thing goes on -- people going over there to work and coming back prematurely. It just seems ... weird to me somehow.

[loftycity]

14. Gets fired from Iraq --Oh, that is too funny

Maybe he is W's double in a parallel universe.
Underpants you have got the great stories!