• @neanderthal@lemmy.world
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    767 months ago

    Also a cinnabon. And a coffee shop called green bean. And a pizza shop. And much more. Sometimes DFACs 1 and 4 gets old.

    This is serious. If the USAF sets up shop anywhere we plan on having a presence for a while, there will be some amenities. Even if the base is bombed on a regular basis.

    • Throwaway
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      137 months ago

      Do they have airmen staffing them? Or do they hire locals? Or import civvies?

      • @neanderthal@lemmy.world
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        327 months ago

        TCNs, or third country nationals. People from neither the US or locals.

        From my understanding the reason why is the almighty dollar. They don’t get paid nearly as much as our troops and contractors, but still a lot more than they would make at home. There is quite a bit of info about it if you do a quick search.

        • teft
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          97 months ago

          It’s not locals. That’s too dangerous most of the time.

          • s7ryph
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            47 months ago

            That’s not totally accurate. Much of the work in Afghanistan was done by local nationals. We had them cooking in our DFAC. But often the fast food joints were staffed from other countries. Seemed like mostly Eastern European workers.

            • teft
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              27 months ago

              And we had the same in Iraq until there were suicide bombers. Then they switched to third country nationals.

          • @yeather@lemmy.ca
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            27 months ago

            It was locals in Korea and Germany, locals in the states too obviously. I’m not sure what they do in more dangerous areas.