US soldiers in Iraq are improperly being used as drivers for civilian supply contractors Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.
Complete story:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=10&u=/ap/2004051... Getting hard to find civilian truck drivers I guess.
This was originally posted in the breaking news forum. But I thought everyone would like to see this story from sidpleasant posted as a response. Hope you all took your blood pressure medicine
Response by Sid
"My brother – in – law is cuurently in Iraq. To protect him I'll just say he's a National Guard officer. Recently he got emergency leave to return to the US because a close family member was dying. He told me that due to the attacks on convoys to and from Kuwait the only way out is via air, and the only people flying out of Baghdad are soldiers on emergency leave. Remember these are all guys desperately trying to get home as fast as possible. They flew out of Baghdad at night and into a Kuwait air force base where a bus was supposed to take them to Kuwait City’s international airport and commercial flights home. Somebody in the Army screwed up however and there was no bus. However, Halliburton subsidiary KBR had a nice air conditioned 40 passenger bus waiting to take a handful of KBR employees to the Kuwait City airport, but they refused to take the soldiers. My brother - in - law argued with the driver for a while, then told him that he could let the soldiers on or he could get all the KBR employees off the bus to help change the 6 flat tires the bus was about to have! At that point the KBR people deigned to share their bus with the lowly US soldiers. "
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