Originally Posted by
Steve-O
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Blackwater a private security firm, basically mercanaries for hire. I'm pretty certian they aren't affiliated with any special forces or even the military
You are basically correct but 99.9% of the blackwater types are former special forces guys (some are regular army or marines but typically special forces) so in essence trash talking them is no different than trashing our normal fighting guys. Also it's pretty much gotten to the point where the military is pretty hamstrung so a lot of jobs are "outsourced" to the mercenaries to avoid red tape and such.
I don't nec like blackwater, but they do a ton of very scary shit and they do it pretty damn well. For example, a guy I know was making over 150k a year (well he was about 3 years ago, no clue if he's even alive now tbh) working for blackwater and you'd think WOW how on earth are they making such a crazy salary??? Well, he'd be the first to tell you they get sent places with NO BACKUP. Meaning, the us military may call on them to do a job or get on some mission and from there on it's ONLY THEM, blackwater might protect themselves but the us military won't get involved to help out.
So what does that sort of situation do to a man? You can guess. Better yet, what kind of person signs up for that kind of thing in the first place? Yeah, you get your crazies here and there, but being a mercenary is no joke. When shit needs to get done, and the red tape holds "us" back from doing it, then you can guess some hotshots will come forward and take on the challenge.
Now, that's not to say ALL mercs are crazy and badass, basically our occupying force is turning away from the military and more to private firms so while you hear about a "troop pullout" that's by and large a bunch of bullshit, we still have a LOT of people over there, they just aren't wearing our stripes per se, there are a lot of mercenaries being left to keep a handle on things.
The one thing I don't get, is how they get funded, I think the way it works is blackwater is guaranteed certain defense contacts (worth billions) and these contracts come out of the defense spending bills, which we taxpayers foot the bill on. So essentially, you can think of blackwater as a portion of our military not constrained by so much red tape, but thats just my interpretation.
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