US contractors in Kuwait decry meager bunkers and pay cuts

Three employees of defense contractor V2X Inc on US bases at Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring in Kuwait say they lack adequate bunker facilities and have received little guidance from their employer amid Iranian missile attacks across the Persian Gulf. One worker said they got "zero instructions" and added: "We have nobody and no instructions.

We don’t know what will happen or how we would even get out of here." Contract staff are assigned different shelters from military personnel, workers said — some are above‑ground concrete tunnels with open ends, others are enclosed structures with metal doors but "no light, barely enough air and total darkness." Several employees said US troops had been evacuated while contractors remained, prompting questions about whether civilian staff were being treated as expendable: "What about us?

Are we just considered casualties of war? How did they leave before us?" Staff also reported cuts to paid hours after the bases closed during the attacks.

Kuwait, Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring

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