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MEXICO CITY — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the United States by an American contractor serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba for distributing communications equipment there under a State Department program, ending an effort to press the Obama administration into a financial payout and a more vigorous push for his release.
One of the more contentious issues roiling relations right now is the dispute over Alan Gross, a State Department contractor serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba for distributing satellite equipment under an American program aimed at weakening the Cuban government.
An American contractor serving a 15-year jail term in Cuba is suing his former employer and the US government.
One contractor serves 3.9 million residents per telephone line, while another serves only 1.4 million, she said.
Son of residential housing contractor; served in Army.
The Army has only 408 psychiatrists — military, civilian and contractors — serving about 553,000 active-duty troops around the world.
Governments — including those in Spain, Italy, Greece and some Canadian provinces — have bought the planes, but private contractors serving the Forest Service have not.
Some government contractors serving the Department of Homeland Security, United States Agency for International Development, and the Agriculture Department, among others, have been ordered to stop work on certain projects deemed nonessential.
The report says the reliance on contractors has grown steadily, with just a small percentage of contractors serving the Pentagon in World War I, but then growing to nearly a third of the total force in the Korean War and about half in the Balkans and Iraq.
Combined with a provision in last year's defense appropriations bill that placed contractors "serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field" under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the new bill could go a long way toward imposing legal accountability on American mercenaries.
Reporters identified two dozen contractors serving as conduits for pay and benefits for employees they did not supervise.
