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I'd recommend against 'freelancing'. Leave that to the Navies. I'd defend individual ships and ride aboard. A squad and their gear could be helicoptered to ships entering the target zone.

I hadn't thought about it that way, but your idea could work nicely. As the ship leaves the southern edge of the danger zone, the Blackwater team takes a helo to a northbound ship and rides it for a few days, then catches another helo ride to the next southbound ship, back and forth for a 2-3 month sea tour. I'd join up with Blackwater for that duty - a cot and a chance of killing pirates - life doesn't get any better than that. Plus, when the ship left port, the pirates' spotters wouldn't see anything to worry about, and when they got to the next port the lace-panty diplomats wouldn't panic that they had weapons. Everybody wins.

As the ship leaves the southern edge of the danger zone, the Blackwater team takes a helo to a northbound ship and rides it for a few days, then catches another helo ride to the next southbound ship, back and forth for a 2-3 month sea tour.

That's the outline of my plan.

I'd join up with Blackwater for that duty - a cot and a chance of killing pirates - life doesn't get any better than that.

My thoughts exactly. It'd most likely take the bad guys a couple of cycles to figure out why their buddies weren't coming home. By then I'd be in Jamaica spending my hard earned cash.