Posted: Sat 09 Jul, 2005 6:35 pm
Well life is totally different for CP and being in the army. As pointed above in the army you have a firm support organisation with medics, mortars, artillery and air strikes if necessary, can call up reinforcements at a moments notice with Warriors etc. Plus us Brits got a relatively easy number with guarding Basra and the south. Starting with a PMC will find you in Tikrit, Fallujah and various other hot places. You carry an assault rifle and ammunition and that is basically it. You don't have a platoon, company around you with comms to the headshed etc. Depending also on the company you're with you might be driving in soft-skinned vehicles with some yank cowboys which their military experience might be playstation at best. You won't have an endless supply of ammo, casevacs etc. Plus as said before the job might not last forever.