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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 1: Private security contractors (L to R) Pat Scott, Mike Stocksett, 32, Neil Gary, 26, Matt Goss, 24, and Kyle Kaszynski, 39, pose for a photograph while on a break from providing security November 1, 2005 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The men work for the private military company Crucible providing security for U.S. State Department contractors in Afghanistan. Kaszynski (R) was killed by a roadside bomb on December 22, 2005 while working as a contractor in Iraq for the private military company Crucible. Kaszynski had been transferred from Afghanistan only a few weeks before his death. The men who decide to work as a private security contractors often base their decision to do so upon a combination of a feeling of patriotic duty, a desire for action, and the ability to make lots of money. Thousands of private military contractors are working in Afghanistan while some thirty thousand are working in Iraq often with little oversight from the U.S. government. These private soldiers make up the second largest troop force in the "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq and have reportedly exchanged fire with other security companies, U.S. forces, and Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. endeavor in both Afghanistan and Iraq relies heavily on the services these hired guns provide. (Photo by Matt Moyer)
