The main deeds of Blackwater International Security Company in the United States.

In fact, apart from Baidu Encyclopedia, there are many public materials available online.

The main founders of Blackwater Company are eric prince, a retired seal from the right-wing rich family, and his predecessor, Al Clark, who served in Seal Team 8. Compared with MPRI, Deyang International and Armored Group, Blackwater is only a small and medium-sized enterprise.

In p>1997, Prince bought about 24 square kilometers of marshland in Kirktak County, North Carolina with his huge legacy, and built a training ground including training facilities and accommodation facilities. The training ground opened in May 1998. This training company is named Blackwater, which refers to the color of the local swamp. Shortly after its establishment, the company began to contract training for naval special forces, and also provided on-the-job training services to the FBI and police agencies across the country. However, since the training ground was originally a wild reserve, there have been environmental protection organizations and anti-war organizations opposing the existence of the training ground since the establishment of Blackwater Company until today. Therefore, Blackwater Company has repeatedly stressed that it will not conduct blasting training and use tracer bullets in the training ground. In October, 27, when a mountain fire broke out in California, Blackwater Company also sheltered more than 3 nearby residents in training companies to improve the public image.

After the shooting incident at Columbine Middle School in Colorado in 1999, Blackwater immediately launched training for the campus gunfight environment, and trained more than 1, police officers. As a result, the police departments all over the country knew the name of Blackwater Training Company. The company's business began to expand rapidly in 2, but at this time, the two founders parted ways. Clark, who was in charge of training, and Prince, who was in charge of business direction, had differences in business philosophy. Clark also set up his own training company after quitting.

Blackwater Company's training ground

Several shooting ranges

The casual bodyguard standing between the suit friend and the military uniform is Blackwater contractor. This suit friend is Lord Paul Bremer, the first colonial governor of the United States in Iraq, and his life safety in Iraq is contracted to BSC

Because Blackwater Company has contracted the security work of several allied headquarters in Iraq, when the allied headquarters is attacked by anti-American armed forces, Blackwater's temporary workers will inevitably have to work with the BSC. Such a situation is usually regarded by people who oppose PMC as "criminal evidence" of "American soldiers fighting side by side with mercenaries"

Prince founded Blackwater Security Consulting Company (BSC) in 21. The blackwater contractor is from BSC.

there are two types of safety contractor enterprises: one is PSC, and the other is PMC.

PSC (Private Security Companies) provides armed and unarmed security-related services. PMC is the abbreviation of two words, one is Private Military Companies, and the other is Private Military Contractor. The former refers to enterprises, and the latter can refer to both enterprises and individual employees in these enterprises.

services provided by p>PMC include national defense, military training, and security. Therefore, PMC company not only has the security business on the table, but also may have military actions that are not exposed. Some employees in PMC may provide security for the United Nations Food Relief Agency, the Red Cross or other similar international relief organizations in an area where the war has just subsided. However, some of its employees may secretly serve as military instructors, strategic consultants, tactical guidance, battlefield command and even directly participate in the fighting of an armed gang in another war-torn area. Because American PMC companies will indeed go to places where the Pentagon is inconvenient or unwilling to appear for the American government to complete the task of exporting American military and diplomatic influence to the whole world, some American PMC companies are indeed the secret forces of the American government to a certain extent.

After the U.S.-British coalition forces overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime, the top management of Blackwater Company had close ties with the right-wingers in the U.S. government and Congress, and some people on it were easy to handle affairs-Blackwater Company successfully won the security task in paul bremer without bidding, and there were other small projects, but at this time, the company's security business was not much. Then the Fallujah incident happened in 24, which was unfortunate for the four security contractors who were flogged. However, it was this incident that created the well-known Blackwater Company. Since then, the security contract of Blackwater Company has been rolling in, which has enabled the company to expand rapidly and enter the ranks of well-known PMC. Besides security contracts, Blackwater is said to have secret military contracts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan.

even with the rapid expansion, in fact, Blackwater's industry position, turnover and company scale are far behind those of the above-mentioned big enterprises. However, unlike its low-key peers, Blackwater frequently appears in front of public media. Although most of these news are negative, such as Fallujah's ambush, shooting civilians, etc., just like advertisements such as melatonin, even if it is the worst thing, people will be impressed if they listen to it more. Perhaps it is for these reasons that there is hardly a military fan in China who doesn't know the name "Blackwater".

In fact, Blackwater Company is somewhat wronged. Blackwater Company is not the only security contractor who shot civilians. For example, on October 11th, 27, Deyang Group's escort for the State Council killed a taxi driver in Baghdad. But Blackwater is too ostentatious, so almost all the media shots are focused on them, and some media even go undercover to dig news materials in this company. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater sent 25 contractors into New Orleans, mainly responsible for guarding enterprises, banks, hotels, factories and residential areas for the rich. Although Blackwater claims that one of its helicopters has saved 128 people affected by the disaster, some people accuse New Orleans of having enough National Guard and local police, and the local people need food, drinking water and medicine more than armed guards. Although Heishui was not the only PMC involved in the disaster relief in New Orleans at that time, it was once again a typical representative because it was too conspicuous and was criticized by the media.

Blackwater contractors who patrol the streets of New Orleans ... er, they are temporary workers

There are also negative news about Blackwater, false job advertisements and failure to fulfill the contract. For example, some Colombian Blackwater contractors (should they be called "temporary workers" or "migrant workers") complained that their monthly salary was $4, when they were recruited, but it was reduced to $2,7 after they were hired, and they flew to Iraq. And if it is a retired special forces in the United States, the price will be much higher. For example, Scott Gerwen, a retired seal who died in the Fallujah attack, was originally paid to earn $6, for two months. However, his death is considered to be due to Blackwater's failure to give enough support in the task in order to save money. For example, it was originally stipulated in the contract that armored vehicles would be provided, and each vehicle should have at least three people. However, on the day of the accident, only four contractors were divided into two ordinary vehicles without armor. However, this task was originally very easy, but because they lost their way and turned into the anti-American armed control area, there was no armor to provide protection and no machine gun in the car when they were ambushed. Only one person in each car could fight back with his carbine, and the result was completely annihilated under the siege of AK, PK and RPG.

The photo of Scott Helvens who was flogged before he participated in the reality show COMBAT MISSION

Due to the constant negative news, in order to change the company image, Blackwater Company changed its name from Blackwater USA to Blackwater Worldwide in October 27, and changed its company logo. However, the bear claw image of Blackwater logo is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the effect of renaming the logo is not great. So in February 29, the company changed its name to "Xe" again, and announced that it would "no longer actively seek" new private security contracts, and shifted its business focus to training and logistics. On March 2, Prince also announced his resignation as CEO of the company and continued to serve as chairman of the board of directors, but he will no longer participate in daily business.

The early LOGO of Blackwater Company

The new LOGO

27 changed the crosshair into a "less aggressive" bar, and the word "Blackwater" was cancelled.

The LOGO of the official website was also changed

The above information was all from D boy's Netease blog, which also contained many very professional blog posts.