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Working Overseas
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Money & Taxes
Insurance? What insurance?
U.S. employers are required to provide limited insurance to all employees in war zones under the Defense Base Act. And in reality getting benefits out of insurers is as hard, if not harder, than it is for former servicemen and women to get what they are entitled to from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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Working Overseas
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Money & Taxes
No gravy train for PMC grunts
The popular belief that there is a huge disparity between what U.S. private security contractors and military personnel are paid has been exposed as a myth yet again.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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Working Overseas
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Money & Taxes
How To Call Home From Outside The U.S.
Excellent advice about the options available for calling the United States from overseas. The best way to phone home depends on several factors: your current phone and carrier, your destination, your budget, and the amount of effort you're willing to invest.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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Working Overseas
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Work Conditions
Contractors face big risks in Iraq
The number of private contractors in Iraq rivals the number of U.S. troops. Many are not Americans, but the total number of contractors injured there has surpassed 10,000, raising the question of how to care for them once they return to the United States.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
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Working Overseas
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Money & Taxes
Dollar a downer for American expatriates
Americans visiting Europe for a short vacation may be feeling pinched by the weak dollar, but U.S. citizens relocating or retiring overseas are feeling something more akin to a shark bite.
Friday, December 14, 2007
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Working Overseas
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Personal Experiences
A conversation with IT contractor Justin Porto in Iraq
As an information technology contractor in Iraq, Justin Porto endures ambushes and mortar attacks as he works with the country’s government to rebuild its communications and IT infrastructure. An employee of MPRI, a division of L-3 Communications Inc., the retired lieutenant colonel is about six months into a one-year stint under a State Department contract.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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Working Overseas
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Personal Experiences
In Afghanistan, trainer sees a different war
In early 2006, Andrew Schmidt, who grew up in southwestern Minnesota, found his police career wanting and his domestic life in turmoil. The divorced father of one desperately needed to get away and take a break somewhere. Some folks might have thought Cancun. Schmidt chose Kabul and a dusty, one-room mud-brick home routinely invaded by camel spiders.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Working Overseas
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Work Conditions
DoD Contractor Medical Care May Be Privatized
With large numbers of wounded and sick civilian contractors severely straining the U.S. military's hospitals and clinics across Iraq, the U.S. military is considering encouraging the creation of a parallel privately-run medical care system for the 129,000 contractors on the Pentagon payroll in Iraq.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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