The US employs more contractors in Iraq than the number of US troops there. There are about 150,000 contractors now in Iraq, who will have to leave with the withdrawal.
Most of those contractors (54%) provide support on bases (cooking meals, etc.); only 6% work in security-related fields but we mostly hear about this category (e.g. employees of Blackwater).
The contractors comprise about 39,000 Americans, 70,000 "third country nationals," and 37,000 Iraqis.
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