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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by walrus01 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:37PM (#18233517)
If their skill set is more on the pointy end of the stick, however, they may not qualify for that.

There's a lot of civilians going around the federal contracting job market who have a few years of experience working as a middle-management fobbit at LSA Anaconda in Iraq, or similar, who will get that job before another applicant who is an ex army ranger who did 5 rotations through Kapisa and Kunar provinces.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by bilbo0s on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:44PM (#18233566)
Not if it's a warm body desk job that requires a security clearance. A lot of those jobs are fairly up front about informing all the applicants that veterans will be given preference.
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by afarrell on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:56PM (#18234340)
"fobbit" means refers to military personnel, so they would be beneficiaries of veteran preferences. How many of those jobs with veteran preference are yet more specific about giving preference to infantry or those who have directly been in combat?
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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by walrus01 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:59PM (#18234358)
In this case I was referring to administrative/logistical related contractor workers who rarely left base perimeters - who also qualified as fobbits.
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