Military Contractors

[Firefly]

Also called mercs. This is what I do.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ors/index.html

Have a nice day.

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K.

[Biohazzard56]

There was a series that was put online, I think PBS did it. It was about military contractors in Iraq. You guys definatley deserve that money, Keep up the good work and stay safe.

[Hamma]

You aren't overseas are ya FF?

Originally Posted by Biohazzard56

There was a series that was put online, I think PBS did it. It was about military contractors in Iraq. You guys definatley deserve that money, Keep up the good work and stay safe.

Any idea what it was called?

[Firefly]

No, not overseas any longer Hamma. I take on more of a director role - more profitable. The average "rifleman" makes between $600-800 a day there, that's an untrained crunchie. I've seen contracts running five digits a month as pay.

The PBS series was called "Private Warrior", and it was produced under the name "Frontline". It largely looked at Kellogg Brown and Root (a Haliburton subsidiary), which is a massive supply/logistics organization. They're more of a rear-echelong ordeal even though they are on the front lines getting shot at. I'm talking more like Blackwater, Erinys, Northbridge, Sandline (defunct). For those that remember, the four guys who got burned alive and strung up from a bridge were Blackwater operators.

[Rbstr]

It's a very cool(a little bit romantic too[not in the love sence]) thing what they do.

But at the same time it scares me a little. A little sci-fi of me perhaps, but who else can see corporations acctualy at war with each other, invading places, or even toppling our government in the nearish-future?

[LimpBIT]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

But at the same time it scares me a little. A little sci-fi of me perhaps, but who else can see corporations acctualy at war with each other, invading places, or even toppling our government in the nearish-future?

if that does happen, DONT SIDE WITH ENRON

[Disconnecting]

Side with dataDyne. They will be your friend.

[Giovanni]

So Firefly... your saying that if I succeed with the whole infantry thing up here I could join a private firm and make more money then I would in the army?

Hell... I'm planning on going JTF... I'm guessing retired spec ops would get mucho deniros.

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

But at the same time it scares me a little. A little sci-fi of me perhaps, but who else can see corporations acctualy at war with each other, invading places, or even toppling our government in the nearish-future?

There are now laws against being an out-and-out mercenary. Companies are now forced to become legitimate - which means they're pretty much unable to undertake operations against legitimate, recognized foreign governments. And no company would operate against a UN/NATO government.

I've heard tell about operators that get propositioned to work against a legit government like the UK. They didn't take the job because not only is it career suicide, but it's just plain suicide. I know of a company that was doing an operation in some shithole African country and the government arrested them on grounds of fomenting revolution. They were based out of the UK. The British government flat-out said "You're on your own".

Most of the people in this line of work come from the US, the UK, and Europe. So the odds of it happening are zero.

Originally Posted by Giovanni

So Firefly... your saying that if I succeed with the whole infantry thing up here I could join a private firm and make more money then I would in the army?

Hell... I'm planning on going JTF... I'm guessing retired spec ops would get mucho deniros.

Guys with spec-ops backgrounds are shoe-ins. From any country.

And yes, that's exactly what I am saying.

[Derfud]

Is it any coincidence that the evil mercenary organization in Oblivion happens to be called the Blackwater Company?

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Derfud, I was thinking the same exact thing when I saw this thread.

I beat that quest Btw.

[Setari]

Coincidence? More like the developers picking names from real world organizations. Probably also just a kind of inside joke for those that know.

[Electrofreak]

Originally Posted by xmodum

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Not to derail this thread, but ROTFLMAO!

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