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		<title>Get Ready for the Mass Exodus of &#8220;Invited Contractors&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A source was good enough to provide a copy of the orders issued to the US Military personnel stationed in Okinawa. In addition, these orders are also in effect for non military:specifically &#8220;Invited contractors&#8221;. Subject to loss of job and forcibly ejected from the country of Japan at the contractors own expense. Read on!! PTTUZYUW [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=12&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grounded! Because I said so.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember my Dad saying that to me as a kid! Today, the US military in Okinawa has grounded via a curfew all service members to their on or off-base homes, and restricts their movement only in transit to and from the various bases there on island. No off base stops along the way. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=10&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a contract anyway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone been asked to clean a toilet at work? Lord! Just asking. I know it’s an extreme case. But back in the US a contract employer has clear and defined roles for its employees and the client understands this or puts it on the agenda at contract negotiation time. But in the Far East, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=9&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diminishing Role of the Khaki</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a new arrival at work the other day. A new Chief checking on board. I noticed that he really had a bewildered look on his face. Maybe, I thought, he&#8217;s never worked in a &#8220;mostly&#8221; civilian workplace in his career. He seemed to look lost and out of place. Why? I didn’t know, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=8&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Contractors By Contractors Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we should start a Job finder or Network to keep all of us abreast to whats open and availible in the market place. We all know that knowledge of a job opening and who to apply to is golden. So I will create a category called Job finder and place it in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=3&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello UCMJ! Goodbye Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a civilian contractor and a former enlisted who did a 3 year tour here in Japan, I know that we are all guests in the land of the rising sun. I know what my civic duties are to my Japanese neighbors. In addition, I like so many others have been horrified by the recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fcbcfe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2895261&amp;post=1&amp;subd=fcbcfe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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