RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,163628,00.html

Yeah, but I am sure the Iraqi's have spent our money on the best water money can buy...

Great

What's with the miliary can't do their own
water purification? Instead of hiring an
outsider to do it.

Not suprising. Where I'm at now, the medics tested our water (provided by KBR) and found that the E Coli was off the charts. Good KBR! What are we paying you for? I have seen, since I have been over here that KBR is a self supporting organization. Us troops can't get TV, furniture, nice things to help us relax when we're off mission. We go ask KBR for help and we get "We can't get/do that" Meanwhile their TV with AFN is broadcasting the Superbowl and the employees are in their Day room sitting on sofas and recliners. Screw you KBR...You're about as useful as tits on a bull!

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Originally posted by Milan1940:
What's with the miliary can't do their own
water purification? Instead of hiring an
outsider to do it.

Ah, no we can't. That is becuz the politicians raped the military after DS/DS (1991). They said the Cold War is over. We will never fight a 2 front war again (hello, couldn't see this one coming huh guys?)and so they gutted the military. Now, alot of the support jobs that KBR now does was done by military before DS/DS.

I was a medic for 25 years we had people in my unit that check the water

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Originally posted by Holynotsomuch:
RE: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,163628,00.html

Yeah, but I am sure the Iraqi's have spent our money on the best water money can buy...

Great

Anyone who wanted this war should deal with the consequences. This isn't the Ritz. You guys should be lucky your actually getting water.

Why is it that the military does not get rid of KBR. They have the worst support for the soldiers that can be provided. They have no standards!

Additionally, they have moved to Dubai to skirt paying taxes. Not to mention all the tax dollars that is leaving our economy due to KBR hiring TCNs while their pockets are fat.

Please do us a favor and rid us of these thieves. They provide services that directly impact moral.

do i need to get my clip board and bact T kit and go over there!!!! often I was told, bathing water does not have to be potable, and I argued it to the death of my career but made a point, proved it, and we had safe water... Water sanitation is an old profession that has worked for many wars and training events... good grief!!! where are the PMTs!!!

So KBR might have cut a few corners, so what? The Federal Gov't keeps hiring them don't they? Who can do it better? Right? Do you really think KBR or the VP give a rats as# if some soldiers or Marines get sick or die? Please pass another pallet of money their way. Thank you very much.

Interesting to note that the MOST important thing to the AP in the article seems to be that KBR is a subsidiary of Haliburton and tha VP Dick Chaney connection. (First & last paragraphs.)

Anybody understand the ulterior motive here???

For starters the article had no need to mention VP Cheney, that was just partisan bias and trys to blame what KBR has done and is doing now on the VP. Uncalled for.

After that I have no sympathy for KBR, they are making a fortune and doing it with what could almost be called slave labor. In Kuwait i talked to a TCN KBR employee that cleaned the latrines, his salary $250 a month, for 12 hour 7 days a week work days.

Where I am at now, I can't get anything from KBR because they don't get paid for me because I work on the Iraqi side of the FOB.

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water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, the Pentagon's internal watchdog says.

I fail to recognize the relevance of this statement except that he exposwes the poltical bias of the AP reporters and editors.

Intentional or, unintentional, contamination of clean water supplies exposes not only the enormous vulnerability of water supplies in Iraq but, also in this country. Chlorination to a concentration of 1 ppm will destroy e. coli and inactivate 90% of chemical threat agents.

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Originally posted by AmericanEagle:
Interesting to note that the MOST important thing to the AP in the article seems to be that KBR is a subsidiary of Haliburton and tha VP Dick Chaney connection. (First & last paragraphs.)

Anybody understand the ulterior motive here???

It's what you get when you have a bunch of war profiteers calling the shots in this present administration

I was in Afghanistan and Iraq working as a contractor with KBR and you were told and there were signs everywhere telling you not to use the water in the shower rooms to brush your teeth with but it was "safe" to take a shower with this same water. KBR only cares about one thing and that is there PROFIT. It amazes me that they still hold any of the contracts, when I was in Afghanistan with another contractor KBR was beginning a process which would eventually replace the higher paid american workers with personnel from countries that would "try" and do the same job but for a lot less money and it didn't matter if they had the experience or not for the specific job at hand. While stationed at Bagram Air Base KBR was training the local Afghani workers how to drive forklifts as they only have to pay them an average of $300-$500 a month versus $6000+ a month for an american driver. This is communism at its finest. I wonder when KBR will follow Halliburton and move their Corporate HQ's overseas and drive another dagger into the heart of the Houston community. When I was originally hired by KBR they did not check any of my employment references as I talked to my previous employer and the HR manager said that know one ever called to verify my employment, it was well known while I was in processing in Houston that the only thing KBR cared about your ability to pass a background check, pass a drug and medical test and can you get a passport. If you are able to do these 4 things you could put whatever you wanted on your resume as they didn't care about your past experience which I received proof of when I first arrived in Iraq. They had sent a man over there who had applied for an IT job as this was his area of expertise but he said the recruiter told him that he had no openings so they wanted him to take a job in a food warehouse, he said he needed to make some money so he took the job they offered and he admitted when he arrived in country that it was this job or nothing even though he repeatedly told the recruiter that he knew nothing about food service. KBR could help the US economy by pulling all the people off the street who panhandle and offer them little or nothing to go overseas and this would bring the US unemployment rate down. Think twice before trying to get hired by KBR, it will save you a lot of headache later in life.

Kinda cool watching the demonuts shooting themself in the foot on things like this. Remember, if you try to tie Hillary or Obama to people of association, that is plain wrong! It's called dirty polotics and the media has been warned by the democrats on this. However, let it be of the republican party and by George, well they just gotta have a connection right? Lets stick to the real news, Obama is buddies with a terrorist, Hillary refuses to let America see all he $$$ deposited in her bank account from non american intrest. Real news, real stories, but like the demos complain about how unfair things are, just as long as it's not in there court........What pathetic BS

Semper Fi

Where's Pauly Shore when you need him?

I was always skeptical about the water in Iraq, but you don't have much choice except to use it.

BOTTOM LINE IS THE "ALMIGHTY DOLLAR"!!!!! GREED. IT IS GOING TO BE THE DOWNFALL OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT!!!!!(JUST MY OPINION)

Yea....its the VP's fault......when he worked for that company over eight years ago he knew this day would come UP and he ruined the system......yup......its the VP's fault!!

LOL

Gee I agree with all of you guys. I was the field sanitation NCO for my battery and I checked the clorine content at least everyday, and after the water buffalo was refilled. The Army DOES need to go back to doing its own work.
88M's driving military maintained equipment; 92G's doing the cooking(I really don't think an AF cook can cook, but that is another story); and 92W's purifing water, running field laundries and baths.

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(I really don't think an AF cook can cook, but that is another story).

Well some of the best chow I have ever had was done on U.S. Air Force Bases, state side and overseas, Navy chow is also really good....esp SOS!!