Blackwater, a world wide private security firm, has been in the news getting some negative reviews. Blackwater personnel are staged around the world supplementing and working with US troops in Iraq and eight other countries. The employees of Blackwater have been called savages, baby killers, murderers and criminals. They operate above and around the law getting their job done without the restrictions imposed on our military in Iraq. Free to operate when and wherever they want making them a very deadly and dangerous killing machine. Blackwater has an extensive training center were potential security personnel are trained and prepared for deployment.
I am glad to see these brave individuals doing the dirty work that the military isn't permitted to do. Some might say that the deployment of Blackwater during hurricane Katrina to stop looters and thieves was wrong. Come on now, what is wrong with stopping crime? The people of New Orleans where stealing from their own community stores like people from a third world country.
My hat is off to the people of Blackwater USA. They are doing a job I don't want to do.
I don't think Blackwater is doing a job that the military isn't permitted to do. They are primarily assigned as personal body guards and for security-type details. These are jobs that the military is too busy to do.
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