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Do they have airmen staffing them? Or do they hire locals? Or import civvies?
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.
Usually local civies.
It's not locals. That's too dangerous most of the time.
Can't risk BK tech falling into enemy hands
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.
And we had the same in Iraq until there were suicide bombers. Then they switched to third country nationals.
It was locals in Korea and Germany, locals in the states too obviously. I’m not sure what they do in more dangerous areas.