The number of armed contractors in Afghanistan has increased more than 65% since Trump took office
Task and Purpose: The Pentagon’s most recent report on contractor personnel numbers for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2019 shows there are now 2,847 armed private security contractors supporting the Operation Freedom’s Sentinel mission in Afghanistan, up from the 1,722 armed contractors it reported in Jan. 2017. The use of armed security contractors seemed to be on the decline