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The media love to call Blackwater "mercenary" but they never mention all of the different PMCs (private military contractors) our government hires to do all manner of jobs all over the world.

You can argue we should not be in most of these places (and I often do) but if we are hiring PMCs that's a separate issue. We don't have a large enough military to be in as many places doing all the things we do all over the world ... and that's a good thing IMO.

1 posted on 02/15/2017 3:57:27 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Eric Prince is AWESOME..!

The USA totally screwed him over, his contracts were BINDERS of maybe 800 pages, even dictating the SUNGLASSES BRAND that his guys would HAVE to wear.

State Dept forbade EVER using low-profile protection (roll light but super stealthy in localized beater cars), preferring to drive around town conspicuously in ambush-magnets.

Prince explained how to quickly and easily stop refugess from flooding Europe —almost all the ones from Africa drive/bus through Libya to the coast, where they get on boats:

You simply intercept them on the well-known few roads in the deserts of southern Libya, then put them in refugee camps THERE.

As it now stands the easiest leg of their journey is the boat part; via The Law of the Sea if encountered they MUST be picked up and shipped to Europe for release.

It’s ridiculous, he explained; solution would be easy and cheap.


2 posted on 02/15/2017 4:04:42 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Lorianne

So..., much..., WINNING!

The media never likes conflict, unless it’s conflict we’re not involved in. If it’s a problematic group, why it’s just fine. Communists? Fine. Freedom fighters other than Muslim ones, not so much.

If we’re involved, the other side always has a legitimate beef. We never do.

Our media, just doing the job our enemies around the world can’t do within our own borders.


3 posted on 02/15/2017 4:07:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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I DON'T have a problem with that! Team Trump = MAGA!
4 posted on 02/15/2017 4:09:06 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Lorianne

Hey look, Congress has the power to issue letters of Marque and Reprisal.


5 posted on 02/15/2017 4:15:24 PM PST by Fhios
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To: Lorianne

Ah, the United Jannisaries of the House of Saud.


6 posted on 02/15/2017 4:16:38 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: Lorianne

A nothing burger of an article. The military has been using military comtractors and CIA front companies for decades to fly missions all over the globe using all kinds of aircraft, both US and Russian. Almost all of the flight crew are high time former military pilots, many of them right out of 160th SOAR and the USAF SOWs.


7 posted on 02/15/2017 4:21:57 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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The LRA, a cultish band of thieves and rapists led by warlord Joseph Kony

Someday they can target the DNC, a cultish band of thieves and rapists led by warlord Barack Obama. :)

12 posted on 02/15/2017 5:31:49 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Squantos

I wonder if they would hire this old guy who can still group in a paper plate at 500 yards with his ol Remington 700 police special 300 WIN MAG... wouldn’t take much I don’t reckon to reach out a little further if need be!


13 posted on 02/15/2017 5:37:38 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: Lorianne

Black water hires a lot of top tier tactical experts. I know a couple of former SEALs that went to work for them at 6 figured salaries.


14 posted on 02/15/2017 6:09:23 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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As an armored cav medic in Vietnam with no details to pull while in basecamp, a friend and I would rent motorbikes from ARVNs and head up to Tam Ky where they knew we’d be leaving them. We’d visit the hooch of Molly & Dolly, just hanging out (innocently, really!) for a few hours, before crossing a large swath of light wool to the west where there was a fairly active helipad of some sort. Making ourselves look like we’d been in the field for a few weeks, we’d routinely ask Air America helicopter pilots for a lift back to our basecamp. These guys were civilians, and for the most part didn’t ask questions. They’d gladly put us down tight beside TOC back in basecamp.

We actually pulled this off a few times, though we could have been Article 15nd up the butt for it. And sometimes I feel a bit guilty for the propriety of it - both from the unit standpoint, and for our own asses. Heck, the whole damn place was VC, and we were really taking risks. But it still gives me a lot of admiration for the pilots of the real AIR AMERICA!


15 posted on 02/15/2017 7:11:22 PM PST by onedoug
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“unnoticed for past seven years”...... Obamas Presstitutes gave HIM a pass.....


17 posted on 02/16/2017 10:42:48 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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