contract military pilots overseas

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Why is the US military and state department using contract pilots to fly missions into what is obviously a combat zone.

What has being a combat zone got to do with the price of tea in china?

You're aware that half of the personnel in any such given area, often performing the same or similiar missions, are civillian, are you not?

Thanks to those who have put in their two cents, I am not trying to say contract pilots are inferior, I am just saying in house seems like a better fit for those soldiers who have to use that transportation.

Not really. No.

I do think there are good contracts out there, but when I am in country, and need to be transported to the other side of Afganistan or Iraq, I would rather have it be by a military pilot on a military bird.

That may be, but when you are in that place, at that time, what you think or want really doesn't matter.

Keeping those positions in house would be better for all involved. Contract flying might be good for some, but I think the professionalism of a commissioned officer (warrentls included) flying would be a better fit.

How perfectly closed-minded, arrogant, and ignorant of you.

Thats not what I am saying, I am saying I am not willing to give up my job as a Captain at an airline.

You needn't say any more. That single sentence sums it up quite clearly.

Of course, you'll hear only what you want to hear, and whine and cry about what you don't.