> Gates still impresses. The Blackwater contracts should be altered to include no-compete clauses.
The US Military should instead indenture all of its warriors against a bond equalling the cost of their training. The value of the bond decreases over, say, a ten-or-fifteen year period, after which the warrior should be free to go wherever he chooses.
Why shouldn’t a warrior be able to make good money after his military career is over? It’s not like anybody gets rich being in the military.
Either that, or the military should pay their warriors a decent, competitive and market-driven salary and be done with it.
Gates still impresses. The Blackwater contracts should be altered to include no-compete clauses.
Much as with industrial concerns, they should have and enforce non-competition clauses. Blackwater should not be allowed to poach highly trained personnel who have benefited from training and experience with rare and expensive military resources.
Please tell me you are kidding!!! Are you saying that a private company cannot come up to a military person and offer them a job six months before their contract is up? So what you are saying is that these guys MUST do 20 years? Perhaps I don’t understand what you are trying to say. These guy did their time and now have a choice to make. Either stay in or get out and make loads of money? You must be some sort of socialist or something...I don’t get it. Either that or you are against capitalism. Maybe if the military is that worried they should increase their pay to what the private sector pays. That should fix the problem right away. I am just surprised that you want more government intervention...
THere is another problem here.
IF the US retains the top 2% of our military forces, Blackwater and the other contractors will go recruit from our NATO and other allies. And those NATO countries in the face of overwhelming budget problems realted to socialist spending policies, will be much more likely to never replace and retrain their own special forces, thereby increasing the US military’s needs to train and maintain elite forces in the future.
Especially true as Gordon Brown is now PM of the UK, and Howard won’t be AU prime minister much longer it looks.
Hell, the Blackwater group has done more to interest people in Special Forces, as well as make a better living standard for all the Military members...that is much needed...the fact is this is the free enterprise system at its best...Supply and Demand!!! You want the Best you need to pay and reward it...the american fighting man deserves every penny~!