$17 is how much Blackwater founder Erik Prince pays for haircut, according to a new profile in Men’s Journal.
$42 million is how much Blackwater recently paid for what that magazine describes as “a series of niggling violations.” As WIB coincidentally noted yesterday, those “niggling” violations included “hundreds” of egregious breaches of US government regulations against international weapons smuggling.
$100,000 was the maximum cost of development for each of 13 training video games “designed specifically to enhance acquisition work force education” at the Pentagon’s Defense Acquisition University. “In ‘Ratner Racing,’” for instance, “players can show off their knowledge of rules and regulations.”
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[/visitor]$100,000 is how much a former anti-Chechen militant, who once threatened to fight American soldiers in Iraq, donated to an Army & Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California, per this interesting piece by WIB contributor Dave Maass.
$851,400 is the cumulative total of a US Labor Department “National Emergency Grant” to provide for the retraining of 198 laid-off BAE workers in Minnesota.