We all know that the rules for military personnel, government civilians, and contractors vary – with contractors having perhaps the most leeway regarding personal conduct.\u00a0 But it appears that things may have gotten just a little bit out of hand at one of our security contractors in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Full-blown batshit crazy of out of hand, to be precise.<\/p>\n
One of the US security contractors in Afghanistan \u2013 Jorge Scientific \u2013 is alleged to have really paid attention to employee morale.\u00a0 As in drunken parties, open drug use, sophomoric stupidity, and other absolutely unprofessional and asinine behavior<\/a>. There are also insinuations of either lack of supervision (or turning a blind eye) and\/or similar bad behavior on the part of some in uniform having the responsibility to supervise this contractor\u2019s work or while visiting the contractor’s facilities.<\/p>\n It got so bad that two former employees quit in disgust, went home from Afghanistan early – and filed a lawsuit.\u00a0 And it turns out they took a little cellphone video supporting their claims before they left.<\/p>\n Oh, and did I mention that one of those captured on that video has admitted repeatedly using illicit drugs, corroborating at least part of the two former employees\u2019 story?<\/p>\n The contract under which this “wonderful” behavior occurred appears to have been W911QX-1O-C-0096, let on 4 October 2010<\/a>.\u00a0 The value of the contract appears to be a bit over $47M.\u00a0 Unfortunately, if the contract is structured in the typical base-plus-option-years form they\u2019ve likely just started an option year \u2013 and are thus probably on-board for the next 12 months, like it or not.<\/p>\n ABC News now has the video, and reputedly was planning to air the story on \u201cWorld News Tonight\u201d and \u201cNightline\u201d yesterday.\u00a0 I didn’t watch either program, so I don’t know if they did or not.<\/p>\n Looks like somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"