Damn.

From The Gavel...

Blackwater, which has received over $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001, is charging the federal government over $1,200 per day for each “protective security specialist” employed by the company.

Call it $36,000 a month.

Compare it to the $33 thousand or so that a Staff Sergeant with six or seven years in uniform and, say, a Combat Infantry Badge, a couple Bronze Stars and experience on two or three battle fronts, makes in a year.

I hate what they're doing to my Army.

Almost as much as I hate what they're doing to my country.