Trainer Shortage in Afghanistan

In my last blog I talked about how we need to fire the defense contractors and hire more soldiers to train Afghan citizens. Well it seems like that idea might not be entirely bullet proof. It seems the US is running into a shortage of training personal and have already turned to contractors to pick up the slack. Of the approximately 4,000 trainers they have in the middle east, about half of them are contractors. This really makes my plan seem not so feasible.

I'm not sure how recruitment works for our military, outside of the experiences I had after high school with the marines trying to recruit me. But I think if we put more funding into that, we could easily make up for the lack of military personal to send to the middle east. We should never have started relying on these defense contractors in the first place. I bet we could even hire some of those contractors right out from under the noses of Blackwater and other companies. There is just no reason for us to keep paying these companies for the lousy job they've been doing.