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POWs and unemployment pay
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Originally Posted by pdf27
Few courtesy of my one-time Gliding instructor, who was an Army Air Corps Lynx pilot during the 1990 Gulf War.
Incidentally, he mentioned that the Iraqis were very happy to be prisoners in general - the coalition forces treated, paid, fed and housed them better than their own army.
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Paid? Does the Geneva Convention say we've got to pay POWs? If so so then at what rate do they accrue pay? The Iraqi Army rate or the much, much higher USA rate? I know you can collect unemployment upon your discharge from the army.  
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