Exhausted US and UK special forces quit to take on security jobs Final Edition 1

US special forces troopers earn up to $75,000 Cdn but are being offered packages of $150,000 Cdn to $300, 000 Cdn to work in combat zones. Gen. David Grange, a retired army Ranger, Green Beret and member of Delta Force--- the elite, top-secret unit modelled on the SAS -- told The Daily Telegraph Tue...

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Published inDaily Bulletin
Main Author David Rennie and Michael Smith
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kimberley, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 01.04.2004
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LONDON, WASHINGTON
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Summary:US special forces troopers earn up to $75,000 Cdn but are being offered packages of $150,000 Cdn to $300, 000 Cdn to work in combat zones. Gen. David Grange, a retired army Ranger, Green Beret and member of Delta Force--- the elite, top-secret unit modelled on the SAS -- told The Daily Telegraph Tuesday that family pressures were also taking their toll on his former colleagues. The U.S. government is also increasingly privatising its most sensitive missions, hiring defence contractors for such tasks as guarding Paul Bremer, the Iraq occupation chief, or Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, or heading overseas to train foreign militaries.