Check this shit out.
Apply at: INTERNATIONAL BORDER ENFORCEMENT ADVISOR ∙
888-466-5417 DIFZ CIVPOL 8500 Freeport Parkway Suite 275, Irving TX 75063
...SALARY AND BENEFITS:
Compensation package is $134,110.00 for a one-year contract. Salary is paid every four (4) weeks, and no federal or social security taxes are withheld. Salary is available for foreign income tax exemption as well. Vacation is accrued at 4% of the hours worked, or approximately two (2) weeks over the course of the assignment. DynCorp International FZ provides all uniforms, equipment, logistical support, administrative support, and lodging. Local transportation in the country is available, as well as transportation to the country and a return flight upon completion of the one-year contract...
A private security company that pays twice what Border Patrol agents make here.
The job is policing the borders in Iraq.
I didn't notice anywhere in the requirements a need to understand Arab cultures, or to be able to read Arabic, although you do have to be able to discern whether the documents are fakes.
Yup, here's yer tax dollars at work.
DynCorpThe world's premier rent-a-cop business runs the security show in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the US-Mexico border. They also run the coca crop-dusting business in Colombia, and occasional sex trafficking sorties in Bosnia. But what can you expect from a bunch of mercenaries?
CSC/ CEO: Van Honeycutt Military contracts 2005: $2.8 billion
note: CSC sold DynCorp in January 2005
And some judgement from some spoiled snotbucket at Yale (Home of Skull and Crossbones):
The US seems unwilling to face the hardships of maintaining a police force in Iraq. Instead, it has delegated the charge of keeping order to DynCorp, a multinational police contractor headquartered in California
Law, PR firms help contractors navigate reconstruction inquiries
By Peter H. Stone National Journal March 8, 2007
The stakes are high for the private contractors and their lobbying, legal, and PR teams. For example, Bowen's recently completed 579-page audit contains strong allegations about Virginia-based DynCorp, which has a $1.8 billion contract from the State Department for police-related projects in Iraq.One controversy centers on allegations that DynCorp spent about $4.2 million on 20 VIP trailers and an Olympic-size swimming pool that was requested by some Iraqi officials but that lacked the necessary authorization from the U.S. government. Further, a training camp for DynCorp workers built with the lion's share of the money from a $43.8 million contract had never been used.
U.S. wants Border Patrol agents for Iraq Firm seeks veteran officers to mentor Iraqis on immigration
April 30, 2007, 9:42AM
By STEVE McVICKER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Soldiers of Good Fortune
Private military companies, for their part, are focusing much of their manpower on Capitol Hill. Many are staffed with retired military officers who are well connected at the Pentagon -- putting them in a prime position to influence government policy and drive more business to their firms. In one instance, private contractors successfully pressured the government to lift a ban on American companies providing military assistance to Equatorial Guinea, a West African nation accused of brutal human-rights violations. Because they operate with little oversight, using contractors also enables the military to skirt troop limits imposed by Congress and to carry out clandestine operations without committing U.S. troops or attracting public attention. "Private military corporations become a way to distance themselves and create what we used to call ‘plausible deniability,'" says Daniel Nelson, a former professor of civil-military relations at the Defense Department's Marshall European Center for Security Studies. "It's disastrous for democracy."
Democracy?
You live in one of those?
I sure as fuck don't. I live in a military empire.
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