Why does KBR hire mostly ex-military officers for the military business?
Mainly because they understand the customer, they understand the chain of command. What the government is looking for is a contractor that knows how to work with their customer. We feel that retired military officers know how to work with the Defense Dept. as a customer. If you look at where we recruit in the U.S., we typically try to recruit out of areas with large military populations in them. You do have a lot of people who either know how the military operates or have a predisposition to be supportive of how the military operates. When we do our newspaper advertising, or however we recruit people, we tend to look around the U.S. where there are military bases and hire specifically, but not exclusively, from those cities. And then, of course, when you need a specific kind of worker, like the truck drivers we deployed into Iraq, we basically just advertise all the way through the U.S. for truck drivers. Q: Are you also able to lure officers away from active duty by offering higher pa
