These stories into the Blackwater security guards kind of make me laugh. We hired Blackwater who turned around and essentially hired mercenaries to provide security for our diplomatic staff because we don’t have enough soldiers to do it ourselves. Now people are up in arms because these guys might be a little trigger happy. Really? You think? These guys aren’t U.S. soldiers that have to be there. They chose to go. Regardless of how much they are being paid choosing to work in a war zone should tell you a lot about someones overall mentality. These guys like this kind of shit.
What really bothers me is when people in suits sitting thousands of miles away climb up on their high horse and start analyzing the actions of people who are having automatic weapons fired at them on a daily basis. If these guys just opened fire on innocent civilians then they should be held accountable and punished. However starting an “investigative probe” to determine what the proper course of action should have been when the bullets were flying is bullshit.
Could the Blackwater guard in the picture look like more of a badass? He has got two assault rifles at least one pistol and who knows what else in all those little packs. Just a regular Scot Harvath or Mitch Rapp.
5 responses so far ↓
1 J Diggles // Oct 2, 2007 at 10:29 am
This whole Blackwater business is bullshit. Our troops should be making a decent living rather than these fools getting an average of 10x a troops daily pay. Maybe if we paid our troops better we wouldnt have to really on these quasi-trained / unaccountable folks.
Our military operations are stretched way too thin, something GW should probably consider before he attacks another country.
2 Mike Honcho // Oct 2, 2007 at 10:56 am
I doubt these guys are quasi-trained, based on looking at the picture of that badass above. My guess is that Blackwater security is primarily made up of ex-military who either put in their time and wanted to make more for the crazy risks they undertake everyday, or they are soldiers who were dishonorably discharged for kicking too much ass. Either way, I say keep them in there. It’s nice to have some good guys who don’t have to follow all the rules.
3 Mitch Martin // Oct 2, 2007 at 11:03 am
I agree with both points.
Our military personnel deserve better pay and then maybe the Army would be able to hit it’s recruiting goals without out making all of those ridiculous commercials.
On the other side I would say that the vast majority of these Blackwater guys were trained by the U.S. military and already spent years living off of what we have already determined to be a shitty wage. So if they can market their skills to make some coin and kick some ass on the side good for them.
4 J Diggles // Oct 12, 2007 at 11:00 am
Hmmm…
“The colonel was furious. ‘Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.’ He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad’s Green Zone. The colonel said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV. His account was confirmed by the head of another private security company.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21163806/site/newsweek/
5 Mitch Martin // Oct 12, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Not surprising. Did you see the guy in the picture above?
The Blackwater guys are all former Navy SEALS, Delta Force and Army Rangers. Basically guys you don’t fuck with and the guys in the Army know that. The Blackwater guys are at least 5x more badass then your standard Army soldier. Doesn’t matter what side you are on when a guy like that tells you to drop you gun you do it.
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