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So I’m sitting here in the middle east reading countless emails with Happy Holidays in the headers, emails from friends on vacations in tropical places as well as snowed in places all around the world, and emails from family back home.

I cant believe 2009 is coming to an end. Time has flown by. I had a couple vacations to the Philippines to hang out in Boracay and did a good job at keeping a low profile while at work finally.

Effective for 2011, the Obama administration has proposed to increase the income and capital gains tax rates on single individuals with incomes of more than $200,000 and married couples with incomes exceeding $250,000.

What really sucks about being in Iraq is when it starts to rain.

After a 2 week vacation and another 12 days of extra traveling time, I am back at work. I am so sick of traveling.

Looks like 2009 is turning out to be a messed up year for a few people. With the reduction of forces in the military in Iraq, alot of us contractors are getting the famous option of “chicken or pasta?” Meaning? Thanks for working for us, but, your service is no longer needed. You are on [...]

With the recent announcement by President Barack Obama downsizing forces in Iraq and increasing in Afghanistan, the Army is adapting its contracted support for troops in overseas contingency operations. The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program will continue, with LOGCAP IV employing a new strategy developed by the Army Sustainment Command, in consultation with its higher headquarters, the Army Materiel Command and combatant commanders, who represent LOGCAP’s ultimate consumers – U.S. service members and civilians in the field. It draws from the lessons learned during the past five years and calls for improved administration and oversight. LOGCAP was established in 1985, primarily to pre-plan for contingencies and to leverage existing civilian resources.

I almost forgot about taxes this year, again. Since I only technically worked 2 months this year, I can’t do the famous foreign earned income exclusion. This is usually the way to file taxes for us that work out of the US.   If you are living and working abroad you may be entitled to [...]

I hate to see the troops in wars they don’t belong in. I was in their boots for over ten years. So I hope this really does go thru, even though I might be out of a job afterwards. So maybe Obama’s war, Afghanistan, is the next stop in DOD contracting.