Pros
Contracting has become the new retirement plan for veterans and retired military, and SOSi has successfully found a niche for some of the more specialized veterans that really have no other job prospects.
Cons
After the extreme downsizing the military endured (while increasing the number of military contracts) there has been a glut of jobless vets and competitive contracting corporations can hire these veterans as contractors for cut rate salaries because they have few other alternatives. SOSi followed this trend allowing them to pay veteran contractors in combat zones less than their active duty counterparts. While this is more a result of the current industrial military complex the fact that SOSi gives contractors no choice in insurance, positional mobility, and focuses on quantity of contractors rather than quality, adds to the problem