Now There Was a Guy With an Exit Strategy

Names from Hell.

We shit you not: One of the U.S. contractors in Iraq – one that was convicted of fraud, although the judgment was later set aside – is named Custer Battles.

Not exactly a name that makes you think they have a strategic vision, is it? Definitely not a good name for working in a war zone with an insurgent native population.

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