The liberal media loves ther consperacies don't they? Well there are a lot of civilian like truck drivers, engineers, mappers weatherman , analysist and so on. The millitary does contract out work and run somewhat like a business. Like the old joke, Mechnical engineers make bombs while civil engineers make targets. In other words, that is prabably true but if the article did not break it down with sources and where these "poelpe" come from I would somewhat disregard the artcle as someones attempt to shock and get published.

Not saying the conservatives do not have their heads in the sand sometime also.