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As someone that's over in kuwait as we speak, and was over in Iraq a couple years ago, I say go for it. The IT guys that come over here make great money and little involvement in military politics. They just do their job and go home. My job right now is working at a TCF in kuwait, working with civilian contractors to maintain our networks. These guys have the life. They work 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, and have apartments in the cities. Work is relatively easy because once everythings running, the sysadmin is the only one really doing much. I know up in Iraq I worked with some other contractors that were getting paid more, but they did have to settle for living in tents and not really being able to go anywhere.
If I were you (which I will be as soon as they finally let me out...) I would try for Kuwait. The much better living conditions far outweighs the drop in pay. Regardless, in an IT job contracted to the military, your guarenteed that the first 80k of your pay is tax free, and every single one of them make more then 80k.
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