<OT> northeast power outage

[burns]

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:11, Ken Moffat wrote:

> I understand there is a move by Rumsfeld to privatize the armed forces. 
> Source out all the support functions, just leaving the bullet shooters 
> in the service.  I'm pretty sure they won't deregulate! ;-)

That's been going on for at least 20 years. The US Navy has outsourced
some of their submarine bases that long. One in particular that I
visited was being almost entirely run (except for a Marine security
force) by PANAM.

Many of the US DoD oversees facilities, including those in forward areas
such as Bosnia, have been run by large US corporation under contract.
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burns