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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (7113)	12/5/2005 10:06:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15991

And one more, on the topic of contractors being used in wartime: ====================== The Hated Contractors. For several weeks Stars and Stripes newspaper ran letters-to-the-editor supporting and decrying the use of contractors. I was talking to one of the "regular" Army guys here who was gently ranting about how overpaid the contractors are. To explain why contractors are used (and well paid), I asked him three questions. 1. What is the commodity that the Army has the least of right now? Answer: personnel. 2. What is the commodity that the Army seems to have a lot of in war time? Answer: money. 3. On my watch team of retirees alone, we have a Navy intelligence officer, an Army Sergeant-Major, an Army First-Sergeant, and a Sergeant First-Class. How would the Army put together a team like that, give them special training, and deploy them? Answer: only with great difficulty. Fortunately, this is a problem that money can solve. Hire contractors! I also told him the standard contractor joke. In the contracting world, there are three parameters: good, fast, and cheap. But, you can have only two, your choice of which. If you want it good and fast, it won't be cheap. If you want it cheap and good, it won't be fast. Et cetera, et cetera . . . ====================== Hawk