{"id":14104,"date":"2009-09-03T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14104"},"modified":"2009-09-03T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:03:38","slug":"in-defense-of-private-military-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14104","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Private Military Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I am not even going to try to figure out what in the holy hell is going on here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, according to one of 12 guards who have gone public with their complaints. <\/p>\n

“It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate,” said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties. <\/p>\n

“They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted,” said the guard, spoke on condition that ABC News not publish his name. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, I do have a few thoughts. First off, I doubt this is truly as bad as they are making it sound, but if it is, fire them all, cancel the contract etc. But, just because I see it in the news, I am now almost more inclined NOT to believe it. Take the “Eric Prince is the King of Asassins, and also he thinks this is a crusade” story that VoteVets and other retardos are trying to peddle. Nope. Not buying it one bit. And someone still needs to explain to those guys what a civil case is, and how it differs from criminal.<\/p>\n

What I can say though is that I served with DynCorps on President Karzai’s protective detail. The guys were of 2 minds on the use of the PMFs, largely because they were paid roughly 4 times what we were. Fair enough. But, I met all the guys on that detail, and to a man they were consummate professionals who were there to do something they believed in. Everyone loves to use the phrase “Mercenary” and really has no clue what that really means, or the fact that largely these PMFs aren’t engaged in shooting, they are more likely to be found fixing showers, washing our clothes etc. <\/p>\n

So, whatever they find out about this company, I hope they let us know. And if this is like Custer-Battles and the great fiasco of renting trucks from them, I hope they screw these bastards to the wall. Because they are giving other organizations like DynCorps and others a bad name. <\/p>\n

After the jump, one of the pictures, which I swear before god looks like Ineedadinnerjacket partying with Sniper.
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