Choose your own order and try not to puke.

6. The U.S. military cannot use Wal-Mart-like tactics to bring vendors to their bloody, corpulent knees.

5. Private contractors to the U.S. military get paid to cook food they don’t feed soldiers.

4. They are immune from any kind of prosecution, including murder and rape, while representing U.S. taxpayers.

3. They don’t have to go where they’re needed, unlike actual U.S. soldiers.

2. They don’t have to fix hazards they create, things that end up electrocuting Green Berets

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1. The three members of my family serving in the U.S. military make less money combined than one private contractor in the same year.

This information and ideas are derived from an excellent piece of consumer war reporting in Forbes Magazine, that liberal, left-wing rag <snark>.