Would you go to Iraq for a year and be paid $200k?
duncan_bayne: I'd certainly consider it if I didn't have a wife with her own career here in Australia.  If I had a student loan to pay off I'd be even keener.One suggestion though: get a little bit of training in first (maybe from Suarez International or a similar organisation).I don't mean high-speed low-drag gunslinging ninja stuff (although their vehicle gunfighting course _does_ look like fun).  What I mean is advice on how to keep yourself safe in a foreign, hostile environment.  Precautions to take, places to go and not to go ... that sort of thing.