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I am trying to get employeed with Dyncorp in Afghanistan. The job will be to train police recruits in a 16 week police acadamy. The pay is good and the contract is for 12 months. I'm just trying to get as much info (facts) as I can so anyone with knowledge on the subject please reply. I have heard "you gonna get shot" or "road side bomb" enough from the a-holes I mention it to around here that I'm sick of it. So I am just on a fact finding mission now. I have spoken with retired military guys who were there for years at a time and they say go for it, I have spoken with two guys that are currently there and they seem to love it.

J.B.
 
Don't know too much about "your gonna get shot" except that most of afganistan is rather calm, the southern region close to the pakastan border is the "hot" area.

Sad thing is when I saw the name I think of the problems they had in the Balkans.
 
We had an office in the same building in NoVA off the Dulles Toll Rd, did a little IT consulting for them. My general impression was that they were professional, but demanding, they had a decent reputation as gov. contractors go. My (non-classified) experience was in 2002-3. FWIW.
 
You might read a few books on Afghanistan military history. Start with Alexander the Great up through the US invasion. What you will find is they're extremely hard working and still live in a feudal state, (some call it medieval, which is probably true). I think the best reading would be the first Afghan-British war of 1837, and the British Colonial empire of India. I think Epiostene(sp) stated it best during his first survey of Afghanistan when he met one of the old men in the Hindu Kish. He stated: "We can live in poverty, we can live with blood, but we can never live with a foreign master". So what you find in Kabul, Hera t, Kandahar is not nor ever has been indicative of the population of Afghanistan. Nor has the country ever been conquered by anyone.
So when traveling outside of the Kabul be careful. It's not just the Taliban you have to worry about.
 
I beleive we have at least 1 or 2 members here that are currently in Afghanistan that post occasionally, so you may get some real good, up to the minute info from them once they spot this thread. dont recall the screen names for PM's though, sorry.
 
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