Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Just so all of you know this, Haliburton was awarded a multitude of no bid contracts by GASP!!! the Clinton/Gore administration.
See what you don't WANT to realize is the Haliburton is likely the most qualified company of its type in the WORLD. They've worked with the government and the military in particular for a long long time, in high risk operations, with security as a priority.
They worked on the same basis with the previous administration as well as the current administration. But don't let the facts get in the way of your blind hatefilled vendetta.
When I was in Kuwait (a year ago) we had Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) taking care of most of the service support we needed (food, laundry facilities, generators, AC for the sleep tents, etc). KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton.
While not perfect, they did a pretty good job of trying to help us whatever and whenever they could. If a generator went down (which was often, they didn't like 135 degree heat) they would be there right away to attempt repairs. Our clothes were cleaned pretty well (we only had two uniforms, the turn around was less than two days-really good for us).
One of the things that really impressed me about KBR was the food service. After the 'major combat' portion of the war was over and the SCUDS stopped falling on our camp they went all out to improve the food at the place. I remember nights when we got steaks, shrimp, lobster tail, they tried to make the food as palatable as they could, they brought in non-alcoholic beer for the troops, and the ice cream bar they set up would have given Baskin Robbins a run for its money.
Any soldier will tell you that one of biggest morale pick me ups is decent food and KBR did an outstanding job trying to keep us well fed.
Funny thing happened. All this whinning about Haliburton and KBR caused the Government to change contractors for sevices on Camp Wolf (and other places I have been told). The food quality dropped right into the toilet, as did the laundry point, the support for our AC and generators and everything else. As far as I know the money spent was identical.
Strange though, the soldiers ended up suffering over all this infighting. Now whom should I blame? I don't blame Dick Cheney. As far as I was concerned he did the soldiers a favor by working for Halliburton We got decent service and we appreciated it.
