Our folks were required to have that as well. They had them but never wore them. they were kind of a PITA because there were shipping issues with that stuff. Some places wouldn’t ship it. Plus, if you flew in and out on a MIL flight, you were required to wear it, at least on take-off and landing I think. I never…

Oh I know. I got interviewed to go over there with one of the companies, they despereetly needed people for telecommunication infrastructure. Was literally insane $$$ offer, more for 8 months than I can anticipate making in any the next couple individual years, with the caveat of “we’ll provide you your own bullet…

Rich? Base pay plus all the plus ups like hazard pay, etc... We had folks going to AFG (just regular contractors not guns or anything) that their base salary may have been ~$50k. Don’t really know who was making what ut I would imagine it is not far off. Go over there and once you added in all the different add on…

Oh, yeah... he’s probably a murderer too. https://www.thenation.com/article/blackwater-founder-implicated-murder/

Being a mercenary, now gently labeled as a private contractor, used to be illegal in this country and for very good reason.

This. This. FUCKING THIS! His company committed war crimes in the employ of the US government. He should be tried on those crimes.

It seems pretty consistent with their willingness to use coded phrases to avoid an accurate description of illegal, or at least immoral, activities. Enhanced interrogation is to torture as private contractor is to mercenary.

Because the military became god-heroes thanks to cultural guilt over Vietnam, which excuses everything Blackwater types do by being “near-military”.

Let’s stop calling them “military contractors.” Erik Prince is the head of a MERCENARY organization that has ZERO accountability. How the hell did this shit become legal in the U.S.?

Erik Prince is a war criminal and should be hanged.

Occasionally publishing steaming piles of garbage supposedly makes them more “balanced”. Comments are conveniently off as well.  

Being a mercenary, now gently labeled as a private contractor, used to be illegal in this country and for very good reason.