"The recruiter says, 'How would you like to make $100,000 a year?' Well, I just lost my job here in Houston and my wife and I were struggling, we were living in a little one-bedroom apartment. Austin Dunn was a 55-year-old professional truck driver, down on his luck in Houston. Each of them has a nickname: Rubber Duck, Smoky Joe, Poncho, Pops, Boozer, Scout, Big Money, Tanker, Wolf Pack and Rawhide.Īll of them worked for the war's biggest contractor - Houston-based KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton.įor many of them, the lure of good pay was enough to persuade them to sign up. Thirty former drivers and a few current drivers were interviewed for this story. I'm not gonna contest him a second time." "The good Lord saw fit to bring me home alive the first time. There was always some kind of conflict going on on every convoy," Garsee says. "Every convoy we'd pull out on would get rocked or shot at or something. ![]() Michael Vick says young Iraqi rock throwers "can hit inside your cab while you're moving at 50 miles an hour."īilly Garsee has no plans to return to Iraq. "For the people who do it and are successful at it, there's a real kinship, there's a real brotherhood there." "It's such an unusual type of job," says driver Scott Hodges. ![]() It's another day on the job of a truck driver for Operation Iraqi Freedom. ![]() Then suddenly there's a sharp concussion, black smoke, chaos. Above all, you tell yourself, "Don't stop." There are bad guys out there who want to pull you out and cut your head off.
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