Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Medina police officer spent a year training cops and dodging bombers
Go to a country with almost no electricity, no running water, no sewers, no judicial system and try to train a fledgling national police force.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
The battle scars of a private war
Contractors wounded or killed in Iraq are the anonymous casualties. Ceremonies are secret, and benefits are scarce.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
West Knoxville woman builds support for contractors
West Knoxville homemaker Crowder started a Web site and support group for American contractors in the summer of 2005, while living in Johnson City. The Houston native's husband had been an overseas contractor, working in Iraq as well as in other countries, though she said he didn't face a lot of problems after returning home.
Monday, February 5, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
KBR contractor brings soothing voice to Iraq
Hunched over her computer, dressed in baggy overalls and a T-shirt, her blonde hair in a scrunchy, MWR technician Michele Sharpley looks like what she is, a civilian contractor. Then you hear it. The voice.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
'In the thick of it': Former Richmond policeman reflects on security work in Iraq
Michael J. Arrighi is a former Richmond, VA police detective turned international security expert. Since leaving the police in 1991, he has worked in places as disparate as Great Britain, Mexico, South Africa and Hollywood. He has spent much of the past three years in Iraq.
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Contractor honored with Defense of Freedom Medal
Roger Bascom was wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the mess hall near the Marez Airfield near Mosul.Brig. Gen. Nick Justice presented Bascom his Defense of Freedom Medal during ceremonies on Tuesday at Fort Lewis.
Saturday, January 20, 2007

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Sheriff’s office veteran returns from training Iraqi police
It is a tough task for any veteran of law enforcement to train new recruits to become skilled at keeping the peace.
Imagine how tough it is, then, to train someone who speaks a different language, is adjusting to a new government, does not have enough supplies and has absolutely no experience in police work.
Friday, December 22, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment
One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad. The detainee was Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran from Chicago who went to Iraq as a security contractor.
Monday, December 18, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
War in Iraq: the mercenary’s tale
Nearly 50,000 mercenaries are in Iraq. This is the story of one Englishman who went to war for profit.
Friday, December 15, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Nonmilitary job in Iraq still has risks
It's hard for Daryl Satko to get life insurance because of his line of work - blowing up unexploded munitions. While looking for a policy, the 30-year-old Satko said one company wanted $75,000 up front to insure him for $500,000.
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Returned Contractor Glad of Work in Iraq
Commentator Tom Reed spent 18 months in Iraq working as a contractor for KBR. He explains that he went because he needed the high salary contractors make.
Monday, November 13, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
"Battle born": Former SEAL finds work in Iraq with local military contractor
Contractor James "Doc" Beard is happy to do a phone interview to talk about his work. Of course, something might come up, he cautions -- like an hour-or-more wait to use the phone, a storm, a power outage ... or a bombing.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Working as a 'hired gun' in Iraq
After leaving the Army, James Ashcroft worked in security protection in Iraq. The former captain, who reveals his experiences in a new book, says the dangerous but lucrative work attracts thousands of ex-soldiers.
Friday, October 6, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Mainers find danger stalks jobs in Iraq
Despite the risks, many people - including police officers who have retired or left their civilian posts - are taking jobs which can offer lucrative pay and a sense of contributing to a greater cause.
Monday, September 25, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Halliburton Ambush in Iraq Caught on Video
The first video of an ambush against a Halliburton convoy in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of three truckers who worked for the company's KBR subsidiary.
Friday, September 22, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Ex-Schofield general shifts gears
Maj. Gen. Eric T. Olson recently left for Iraq to be the civilian deputy director for civil, military and regional affairs with the reconstruction office.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Former captive injects reality into Air Force terrorism class
Thomas “Tommy” Hamill, former KBR employee spun a fascinating web of details from the April 9, 2004, attack on his convoy, through the subsequent days of captivity.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
"I Was a Propaganda Intern in Iraq"
Willem Marx, a former intern with the Washington-based government contractor, the Lincoln Group, spent a summer in Baghdad paying to plant pro-American articles secretly written by the U.S. military in the Iraqi press.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Training Iraqi cops tries nerves, man says
Sleeping in a Baghdad trailer the size of a cell, Fred Van Dusen grew accustomed to the constant chop of helicopters overhead, the blasts that sent his blood pressure skyrocketing, the thuds that left him lying on his pillow thinking: If I don't wake up in the morning...He would thank God he made it to daylight, put on a business suit and go to work in the old Republican Guard Palace as chief of staff for the Ministry of the Interior.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Working Overseas : Personal Experiences
Baghdad Driving Lesson
A chaser car has more than one purpose. If the people in the main car are kidnapped, the chaser car can follow to see where they are taken. If the main car is disabled by gunfire or an explosion, the chaser car becomes an escape vehicle. Today, we´d found another use I hadn´t thought of: If the main car is pursued, (most likely to kidnap me, and do worse to my driver, whom I won´t name at his request) a chaser car can cut in front, block traffic, and allow the main car to escape.
Saturday, August 12, 2006