Posted on 10/09/2014 9:30:56 AM PDT by 11th_VA
As the fight against the Islamic State unfolds, the take of Erik Prince, the founder of the former private security firm Blackwater, is straightforward: If the United States is unwilling to send in ground troops, “let the private sector finish the job.”
Prince addressed the subject this week in a little-noticed blog post on the site of his newest security and logistics firm, Frontier Services Group. Prince left Blackwater, with its checkered history in Iraq, including the killing by contractors of 17 civilians in a 2007 shooting, in 2010. The trial of four Blackwater guards involved in the shooting in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square, has been underway for months.
Prince is currently courting private business in Africa for his new company. He also is preparing to drum up readers for the paperback version of his bestselling book, “Civilian Warriors: The Inside story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror,” out later this month.
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A friend of mine works for the Social Security Administration. He makes 6 figures a year. Granted he works ridiculously long hours, but....
SEALS, Green Berets, Combat Controllers, Rangers, Force Recon, and various other badasses should be paid more.
Imagine a meritocracy pay scale in the military. LOL! Yeah right, like the effing politicians would allow it.
This is what Bill O’Reilly has been proposing, and Prince agrees. Every nation wanting protection would help pay.
The ROE crap is the main reason the ME is still a problem.
Very well stated.
I'm not suggesting that what you are saying isn't generally true, but people tend to forget that what a solider earns is not merely wages.
And slowly, the plot of Metal Gear Solid 4 becomes a reality...
It is immoral for this ME murder to drag on for decades because nobody will use the necessary tactics to end it.
Unlike our Senate.
A great big glass parking lot right in the middle is just what they need to focus their concentration.
These people are not clowns. Almost all of them are 100% patriotic and are former U.S military. To state that they only care about their paycheck sounds like a leftist smear.
Follow the money -
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His testimony is compelling, and his intentions appear to have patriotic integrity.
I really fear for any servicemen these days - leaders are hollowing out our military, mission and allegiances are murky as can be.
Who is going to pay them?
What makes you think mercenaries out of Delta, SEALs, SF, Marines and Rangers are not patriotic?
I’m guessing that right about now you’re thinking ‘oops’ ? !
Except that O'Reilly wants only an international force with no Americans in direct combat and Prince wants a 100% American merc force.
There is a problem with this proposal and maybe I see it because I'm looking at it from the point of view of an Infantry Captain. The former Blackwater corporation and other PMC contractors are mostly drawing their employees from the ranks of special operations and those guys are literally the GOLD STANDARD of operator.
Rangers and Marines are also in the mix and those individuals are classified under the category of "super infantry." and they understand the nuts and bolts of that job. They can work under the active umbrella of mechanized warfare in the case of the marines. They can work under the active umbrella of artillery or mortars and they can maneuver with armor.
They don't do the prowl and growl of special operations who perform nighttime HALO insertions from 35K feet up and free fall to 1000 feet OR "hop & pop" at 35,000 feet and open the chute immediately to glide under open canopy up to 24 miles for a silent pinpoint insertion by an extremely small group for a very specialized mission.
The problem with giving these guys orders to conduct full scale infantry attacks is that they're not skilled at huge operations with hundreds of men. The Rangers and Marines are but they represent a fraction of the employees of the PMCs. If you wanted to let these elite men loose as a distinct force multiplier for a much larger group that would be fine. Sniper teams for example. But these specialized folks don't take and hold ground. They are surgeons who remove specific cancers from existence. Using special forces as standard light infantry is a huge waste of resources. And they don't do that very well, either.
Most of these contract mercs are experienced special forces or police who joined a private army for the better pay. Reality is, your paycheck is better from the likes if Blackwater or others of its kind.
The DIY Tank Driven With a Video Game Controller, Being Used to Hit ISIS: The FSA built its newest tank from a pickup truck, complete with a machine gun operated by a PlayStation controller
https://www.vocativ.com/video/world/isis-2/diy-tank/
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