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Published on: 3/23/2003
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We also do US customs inspection," explained VBR site manager Alex Daniels, who has worked at Incirlik for almost 15 years.
Cheap labor is also the primary reason for outsourcing services, says Major Toni Kemper, head of public affairs at the base."The reason that the military goes to contracting is largely because it's more cost effective in certain areas.I mean there was a lot of studies years ago as to what services can be provided via contractor versus military personnel.Because when we go contract, we don't have to pay health care and all the another things for the employees, that's up to the employer."
Soon after the contract was signed, Incirlik provided a major staging post for thousands of sorties flown against Iraq and occupied Kuwait during the Gulf war in January 1991 dropping over 3,000 tons of bombs on military and civilian targets.
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We also do US customs inspection," explained VBR site manager Alex Daniels, who has worked at Incirlik for almost 15 years. : : Cheap labor is also the primary reason for outsourcing services, says Major Toni Kemper, head of public affairs at the base."The reason that the military goes to contracting is largely because it's more cost effective in certain areas.I mean there was a lot of studies years ago as to what services can be provided via contractor versus military personnel.Because when we go contract, we don't have to pay health care and all the another things for the employees, that's up to the employer.": : Soon after the contract was signed, Incirlik provided a major staging post for thousands of sorties flown against Iraq and occupied Kuwait during the Gulf war in January 1991 dropping over 3,000 tons of bombs on military and civilian targets. : : Still ongoing is the first LOGCAP contract in the "war on terrorism," which began in June 2002, when Brown and Root was awarded a $22 million deal to run support services at Camp Stronghold Freedom, located at the Khanabad air base in central Uzbekistan.Khanabade is one of the main US bases in the Afghanistan war that houses some 1,000 US soldiers from the Green Berets and the 10th Mountain Division. : : In November 2002 Brown and Root began a one-year contract, estimated at $42.5 million, to cover services for troops at bases in both Bagram and Khandahar.Brown and Root employees were first set to work running laundry services, showers, mess halls and installing heaters in soldiers' tents. : : Future Contracts in Iraq : : Halliburton is also one of five large US corporations invited to bid for contracts in what may turn out to be the biggest reconstruction project since the Second World War.
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