SO an enlisted man makes $80K more than a privateer!!! :)
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > A difference of close to $80k. > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the pay gap between an enlisted person and a grunt in a private >> mercenary army??? >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/10/09/let-contractors-fight-the-islamic-state-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-says/ >>> >>> >>> Let contractors fight the Islamic State, Blackwater founder Erik Prince >>> says >>> >>> >>> >>> By Dan Lamothe <http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dan-lamothe> October >>> 9 >>> >>> >>> Erik Prince testifies in 2007 before the House Committee on Oversight >>> and Government Reform about the controversial company he founded, >>> Blackwater, Inc. (Photo by Linda Davidson/ The Washington Post) >>> >>> As the fight against the Islamic State unfolds, the take of Erik Prince, >>> the founder of the former private security firm Blackwater, is >>> straightforward: If the United States is unwilling to send in ground >>> troops, “let the private sector finish the job.” >>> >>> Prince addressed the subject this week in a little-noticed blog post >>> <http://www.fsgroup.com/chairmans-column-isis/> on the site of his >>> newest security and logistics firm, Frontier Services Group. Prince >>> left Blackwater, with its checkered history in Iraq, including the killing >>> by contractors of 17 civilians in a 2007 shooting, in 2010. The trial of >>> four Blackwater guards involved in the shooting in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square, >>> has been underway for months. >>> >>> Prince is currently courting private business in Africa for his new >>> company. He also is preparing to drum up readers for the paperback version >>> of his bestselling book, “Civilian Warriors: The Inside story of Blackwater >>> and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror,” out later this month. >>> >>> The former Navy SEAL declined interview requests for this piece through >>> a spokesperson with his book publisher, the Penguin Group. In his blog >>> post, published Monday, Prince said President Obama’s strategy to counter >>> the Islamic State is “half-hearted at best” and will not be able to dig the >>> militants out of any urban centers where they seek shelter among civilians. >>> >>> Prince said military clearing operations fall to foot soldiers, and the >>> Iraqi military is “demonstrably inept after billions spent on training and >>> equipping.” He points out that when the Islamic State attacked Iraqi units >>> earlier this year, they folded and the militants were able to seize tanks, >>> Howitzers, armored vehicles and ammunition, among other supplies and >>> equipment. >>> >>> “The Kurds, once a lean and strong fighting force that routinely >>> rebuffed Saddam’s forces, now find themselves outgunned, under-equipped, >>> and overwhelmed,” Prince wrote. “But they do fight, and they fight bravely. >>> The Kurds’ biggest problem is the U.S. State Department blocking them from >>> selling their oil and from buying serious weaponry to protect their >>> stronghold and act as a stabilizing force in the region.” >>> >>> Prince, long a proponent of using private military contractors to >>> backstop U.S. policy abroad, added that the private sector has “long >>> provided nations around the world with innovative solutions to national >>> defense problems,” and he seems to look back fondly on the work Blackwater >>> did. >>> >>> “If the old Blackwater team were still together, I have high confidence >>> that a multi-brigade-size unit of veteran American contractors or a >>> multi-national force could be rapidly assembled and deployed to be that >>> necessary ground combat team,” Prince wrote. “The professionals would be >>> hired for their combat skills in armor, artillery, small unit tactics, >>> special operations, logistics, and whatever else may be needed. A competent >>> professional force of volunteers would serve as the pointy end of the spear >>> and would serve to strengthen friendly but skittish indigenous forces.” >>> >>> It’s not the first time Prince has said that Blackwater — later >>> re-branded as Xe Services, and more recently as Academi — would have >>> changed the equation in the fight against the Islamic State. At a political >>> event last month, he said it was “a shame” the Obama administration had >>> “crushed” his old business because it could have solved the issue of >>> whether to put American troops on the ground in Iraq this year, according >>> to the Daily Beast >>> <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/19/blackwater-founder-wants-to-fight-ebola-isis-and-for-the-gop-to-get-off-their-ass.html> >>> . >>> >>> Contractors could have “gone in there and done it, and be done, and not >>> have a long, protracted political mess that I predict will ensue,” Prince >>> added. >>> >>> Prince’s comments are likely red meat for those who think the Obama >>> administration should do more to fight the Islamic State. 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