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Originally posted by Superbelt
The pay for Merc's in iraq can range up to 2500 dollars a day or more.
If I was an average soldier, or especially, a National Guardsman. I would be pretty pissed off to know I am risking my life there involuntarially for around 8-9 k a year when these guys are being paid by our government the same amount in just one week.
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so the military is like an apprenticeship. when they get ou they can do the same thing, if their balls are big enough.
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Originally posted by Sparhawk
I also don't think mercenary is the most appropriate term, because I haven't heard an instance of them being used as soldiers (fighting/engaging the enemy).
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what makes them mercs is that they
WERE soldiers, not because they act like soldiers.