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- By Charles S. Clark
- February 13, 2012
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Among the American deaths in the Afghanistan war in 2011 were 430 employees of American contractors, The New York Times reported on Sunday. That’s more than the 418 U.S. troops who died the same year.
The deceased contractors included 386 working for the Defense Department, 43 for the U.S. Agency for International Development and one from the State Department, according to sources at the American embassy in Kabul and public data.
“Even the dying is being outsourced here,” began the dispatch by Rod Nordland datelined Kabul. For every contractor killed, many more are seriously wounded, he reported. The Labor Department counted 1,777 American contractors injured seriously enough to miss four days of work in 2011.
Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.
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