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I was just looking at an interesting article about PMC's. It says the U.S. Department of Defense has about 50,000 men and women working for them over in Iraq from ex SAS LCol Tim Spicer's Aegis Defence Services Ltd. He was given a 3 year contract valued over $510 million dollars to provide security for all of Iraq's major government projects. Looking into this a little further i found out some of the salaries guys are getting are $110,00 US per annum as well as 100 paid vacation days a year, depending on qualifications and previous combat experience.Now my question is this, if we have several and there are several of these companies providing this service, why are we not using them more often. Is it the cost? there reputation? political backlash? or is it just that maybe when it comes right down to it unlike other countries, Canada would rather do it's own missions and stick to it's morals and values. I think other countries use these PMC's as a way of getting "the dirty work done" without losing face or any kind of bad press it might get over its own soldiers getting killed,(like the over 1800 US soldiers who have already die in Iraq.) If there are men willing to go out and do what needs to be done without worrying about getting killed and with no actual ROE's, why are we not looking into using something like that to protect Canadian interests overseas as our military is so drastically stretched thin. Could this be why the US is using them.... no accountability??? As PMC's are becoming more common more and more special forces soldiers will be lured into the lucrative world of mercenary work. Great pay, top of the line kit, as well as getting real combat experience is why i believe alot of SpecOPs are jumping ship and joining PMC"s for $1000 buck s a day. I'm sure alot of you will weigh in on this and I'd like to know what you all think. If you want to check out a link here's the one to Tim Spicer's Aegis Ltd. check out the employment section, it's quite interesting. http://www.aegisdef.com/recruit.aspx Cheers all!!!!!