Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?
jawngee: Allow me to be the dissenter.If you're doing this for the military or the government, I would urge you to consider if your work is contributing to all of the wrong reasons why we (as a country) are there, or if it's going to contribute to helping correct the mistakes that got us there.Is war really something you want to experience?  Things are calm there now, relative to a few years ago, but - imho - still is a pretty bad place for American civilians.Anyways, if it were me, it would more or less come down on the morality of what I'm contributing to directly through my work.  Yes, 200K is a lot of money, but there isn't any reason, if you're good, that you won't eventually be making that every 1.5-2 years in a metropolitan area like NYC.This is all under the assumptions you'd be working for the US government.