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), founded in 1997 by Eric Prince and Alla Clark.

The company has a large number of divisions, subsidiaries. Academi. Currently is the largest private military company. Headquarters is located in North Carolina, Carritak County, in the sink community.

The main profits receive from participation in military conflicts, about 90% of revenues make up government orders.

History

Logo Blackwater USA. from above and logo Blackwater Worldwide. bottom.

Firm Blackwater USA. It was founded in 1997 by the former US Naval Special Forces officer ("Sea Kitats") 27-year-old Eric Prince and coach on applied shooting by ELOM Clark, as a security company that will be engaged in supporting and preparing military and law enforcement operations.

Eric Prince graduated from College Hillsdale and worked as an artist in the White House of George Bush (senior), then graduated from the Naval Academy and served in the Naval Special Forces.

Money on the purchase of the first training center and the creation of the company he inherited, bequeathed by the Father. Then he bought a plot of 24 km² on the border of North Carolina and Virginia. In this area, water in the lake had a black color because of a large number of peat, so the company got its name Blackwater.that translated means "black water".

Over time, the security company turned into a real private military company, and Prince himself became one of the main sponsors of the Republican Party.

The first losses of the Private Army "Blackwater" suffered in March 2004, when four of her employees died. At the time of the withdrawal of the Forces "Blackwater" from Iraq, 987 mercenaries were present in the country, 744 of whom were citizens of the United States. The company participated in the Iraq war until September 2009. Blackwater has the right to not disclose the loss of personnel, but reported the death of 27 of its employees by October 2007.

Focusing on the professionalism of the company's employees, its representative stated that none of the company's customers seriously suffered:

In October 2007 Blackwater USA. changed the name of the company on Blackwater Worldwide. and published a new logo. Representatives of the Company argue that such changes are not related to the shooting of the demonstration in Baghdad, and decisions on the change in the name and rebranding were taken much earlier.

In 2009, the founder of the company Eric Prince went from the post of Director General, and in February Blackwater Worldwide. officially changed the name on Xe.and also uses brand U.S. TRAINING CENTER [ ] .

Guide

From the date of creation of the company, the main management roles before March 2, 2009 performed by Eric Prince himself. The crew of the company is now held by the Chairman of the Board, but no longer participates in the daily activities of the company.

Many key posts in the company occupied former high-ranking officials. For example, the Black Coffer, who held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Company since 2005 to 2008, since 2002 to 2004 was the coordinator of the United States Department of the United States to combat terrorism, and since 2006 to 2008 was the director of the Counter-Terrorism Center of the CIA.

Now the executive director is Joseph Jorio. Daniel Esposito became a new operating director.

The structure of the company

XE Services. - The management organization is mainly engaged in administrative functions. The main activity is distributed among the divisions of the company. Considering the structure of this organization, it should be borne in mind that there are a number of companies that are not included in the group, but belong to Eric Prince. For example, the company EP Aviation Llc., named because of the initials of the owner, owns tactical and educational air. A company Total Intelligence SolutionsArlington is engaged in risk management and the provision of various consulting services.

Blackwater Maritime Solutions.

The Blackwater Maritime Solutions division is engaged in the preparation of employees of naval forces. In 2004, the Company conducted the preparation of Greek security services, which should have been able to secure during the 2004 Olympics. Also conducted the preparation of the Azerbaijani and Afghan armed forces.

The company modeling can be carried out on artificially created lakes. Blackwater Maritime Solutions received a contract for the preparation of seafarers US Navy after the attack on the American USS Cole ship. The firm belongs to the MacArthur ship with a displacement of 995 tons.

Company Blackwater Security Consulting. (BSC) was founded in 2001, headquarters is located in the city of washing, North Carolina. BSC is one of the private security firms that worked during the war in Iraq. It was this company that provided protection to officials and facilities, he learned the army and the police, and also engaged in the support of the armed forces of the coalition.

The company has a contract with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and provided services for the protection of diplomats in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and Israel. The company is engaged in the protection of the US embassies in Iraq. The company offers its services to eliminate the effects of natural disasters and providing emergency assistance to victims. BSC officials met with California Governor by Arnold Schwarzenegger to discuss opportunities for cooperation in the event of an earthquake.

Greystone Limited

Private security service Greystone Registered in Barbados. The company carries out citizens from various countries through their branch SATELLES SOLUTIONS, INC . Their site states that they can provide the "best military from all over the world", which can lead their activities anywhere. The company's tasks may vary from small to "large-scale operations requiring a large number of people to ensure security in the region."

IN Greystone planned to open an educational center like uS Naval Base Subic BayBut later, the company refused the company from these plans.

AVIATION Worldwide Services.

AVIATION Worldwide Services. It has three subsidiaries: Sti Aviation., Air Quest and Presidential Airways.. The company was purchased Blackwater in April 2003. Headquarters is located in Melbourne, Florida.

Other divisions of the company

Participation in the Iraq war

Paul Bremer with escort from Blackwater staff.

Blackwater company plays a significant role in the war in Iraq as a contractor of the United States government. In 2003, the first contract was signed for the provision of the chapter by the chapter of the temporary coalition administration floor of the board in the amount of 21 million dollars. According to Erica Prince, since 2003, 30 employees of the company were killed. Shared Blackwater losses in Iraq amounted to about 780 people, these people are not taken into account in official statistics [ whose?] Military loss.

While working in Iraq company Blackwater. We have repeatedly suspected of smuggling weapons. Staff Xe. We worked legally in Iraq, at least until September 2009.

Ambush to El Falluja

March 31, 2004 during the conjunction of food delivery companies ESS. Four employees of the company were killed by Iraqi rebels. The bodies of the staff were pulled out of cars and beaten, then burned. The corpses were tied to the cars, they were dragged through the streets, and in the end they were hanged on the bridge through the Euphrates. This incident led to the assault by the US Armed Forces of the city of El Fallucza, as well as to litigation with the relatives of the dead.

April 2005.

According to the results of all the investigations, it turned out that the employees of the company from 2005 to 2007 participated in 195 shootouts and in 84% of cases they opened fire first.

Other activities of the company

In a press release of XE, it is argued that the company provides air transportation, security services, logistical support of troops, transport services, and humanitarian support. It has been reported that the company helps in establishing law and order in natural disasters. The company's main profits receives from participation in military conflict and about 90% of the company's revenue comes from government contracts. The company received the main development during the Iraqi war.

Company Blackwater. It was hired to eliminate the consequences of the hurricane "Katrina". About 200 employees of the company were sent to the regions affected by Hurricane "Katrina". 164 of them ensured the protection of government objects. For your services, the company received $ 240,000 per day.

XE is one of the five companies chosen by the US Department of Defense, with which a five-year contract for the supply of equipment and the provision of drug combating services. The contract value is estimated at $ 15 billion. XE has contracts with various foreign governments, mainly about the provision of services to combat drug trafficking. 16 employees of the company are in Afghanistan to support and educate the Armed Forces of the United States. HE conducts training of Afghan power structures to the methods of suppressing the illicit drug trafficking.

Also clients are individuals, oil-producing, insurance companies. In 2005, Blackwater was trained in the Azerbaijani Naval Special Forces. The company has a contract with the Japanese authorities about the protection of AN / TPY-2 radar systems.

Criticism

XE Services, as the Blackwater successor, has a rather negative reputation due to the murders of civilians in Iraq and the smuggling of weapons. Members of the families of the killed are submitted to the courts of claims about the management of the disorderly shooting and murder of civilians to the company Blackwater.

Xe Watch

XE Watch is a non-commercial, non-governmental organization with headquarters in North Carolina. The organization is monitored by Blackwater's activities since 2007. It also observes the activities of other private military companies and mercenaries from the point of view of human rights, lobbying, speculation on issues of wars and conflicts. In September 2007, the first demonstration of this organization was organized near the Blackwater headquarters in Mookhe, North Carolina.

The author of the book "Blackwater. The most powerful hired army in the world "(eng. Blackwater: The Rise of the World "S MOST Powerful Mercenary Army) Jeremy Skaichill EN is one of XE Watch members. Also, representatives of this organization wrote articles about HE in The Seattle Times , Chicago Tribune. and The Guardian. .

Smuggard arms

Blackwater has repeatedly suspected of smuggling weapons. A loud scandal that happened with the security company on March 9, 2010 was to investigate the disappearance from American warehouses in Afghanistan more than 500 Kalashnikov and other weapons. Presumably, responsible for the loss of weapons employee Blackwater. Signed invoicing on their seizure from a warehouse by the name of the cartoon character SOUTH PARK. Eric Cartman (Eng. Eric Cartman).

In culture

In feature films:

In documentary films:

• Shadow Company. - A film about the employees and private military companies, special attention is paid to their role in recent armed conflicts. The film was released on DVD in August 2006.
• BlackLine: The BEIRUT CONTRACT - A low-budget film about private military companies, such as Blackwater.

In games:

In books:

see also

Notes

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9. Tehran Times, Blackwater Admits Employees Illegally Sold Weapons »
10. Agreement for Security Services (Neopr.) (PDF). United States House of Representatives (March 12, 2004). Date of appeal December 30, 2007. Archived on December 27, 2007.
11. Lee, Matthew.. Feds Target Blackwater in Weapons Probe (English), Associated Press, The Washington Post (22 September 2007). Date of appeal January 2, 2008.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in a conversation about the situation in Ukraine stressed that at the present moment the army of Ukraine is similar to "Foreign Legion"

We will try to figure out what these kindness of NATO are, whom the Ukrainian government invited to "learning and consulting" in April 2014.

Blackwater (Black Water) from 2009 is renamed in "XE" (read as "zi") - a private security American film, in fact, which is a small, but powerful army - 2.5 thousand mercenaries of the highest class and about 30 thousand people in reserve. 90% of the company's income - orders of the US government, NATO countries. In Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 20 thousand private security guards worked in 2012. Barack Obama has been provided by its anti-war rhetoric, but for the first 9 months of its reign, the number of private contractors from the US Department of Defense increased by 236 percent.

The company, founded by retired military and employees of the special services, provided security services and did not stand out for nothing special, until she attacked the gold-bearing custody - contracts with the US government, which she is obliged to close connections with those who are now in the Pentagon. The administration of George Bush resorted to the services of the company since the start of the campaign in Iraq and generously paid them: in 2001, Blackwater received $ 736 thousand from the federal budget, then in 2005 the amount exceeded $ 25 million. In 2006, contracts were estimated at almost $ 600 million. Income from campaign in Iraq more than a billion dollars.

Question price:

Every day the work of one mercenary from Black Water costs the American budget at an average of $ 1222. At the same time, the soldier of the American army, which performs a similar job (in the rank of sergeant) receives $ 140-190 per day (depending on the length of service, etc.) Thus, one accelerator from Black Water costs the American budget 6-9 times more expensive. Determine the number of employees in Iraq mercenaries from private security agencies is difficult. Not all hired Black Water people are listed by the company's employees. On the official Blackwater website in the section on vacancies emphasizes that if you work for the company, you will not officially be taken to the staff, and you will be an independent contract service. Estimates of the number of mercenaries in Iraq range from 25 thousand to more than one hundred thousand people (which is almost equal to the number of coalition servicemen). In Iraq, there are about 60 large and small security firms (not only American), in essence - private armies.

If we talk about the legal status of mercenaries, formally obeying the norms of international law and the laws of the United States, the mercenaries are reported only for the fulfillment of the main goals, but not for the methods. Perfect crimes do not fall into the category of military. None of the mercenaries will disassemble someone from the Slavs "Vodnik" or "Dill". Ukraine is only a stage on the US movement to Russia, its reserves and in the event of an escalation of the conflict, the ATO troops will become cannon meat in the skillful hands stretching to Washington itself.

Since 2006 there is an investigation into the crimes of Black Water in Iraq, a new round of whom the materials of the site WikiLeaks gave. Among 390 thousand documents, in particular, there were materials testifying to 14 previously not known episodes when Black Water mercenaries opened fire on civilians. In most cases, mercenaries, guarding foreign diplomats in Iraq, opened fire on cars that were too close to the car clients. In total, 10 civilians were killed as a result of the actions of mercenaries, seven were injured. Among the dead - the driver of the ambulance car arrived at the terrorist attack in Baghdad.

The direct participation of NATO mercenaries in the punitive operation is evidenced by only the data of the radio operation, however, as the army of Ukraine will be becoming increasingly incapacitated as a result of the economic and political collapse of Ukraine, the influence of NATO will grow and the Wars of the DPR and LNR should be prepared to be ready to face mercenaries "Not having tortured not torture, no murder, no robberies or tortures."

However, closer to the topic)) The list below will go about the American Blackwater Corporation, which is the peculiar leader of this "industry", those who really pour blood, working out the American state tender for the issuance of intestines with different unwashed in the course of unleashed (or indirectly supported) America military conflicts And everyday hot spots. These are professionals who live with this, and the bloody inclinations of these troops ( They have a reputation of people who first shoot, and then doubt. They have repeatedly created difficult situations: after one of the Blackwater operations on the street there are 17 corpses of civilians.) Digitly contrast with bleaching on TV often shackled on the sight of the guines from the official army of states. The big losses of the army in the war create strong social stresses in their homeland and raise the simplicity, social fatigue occurs from the war and the risks of the funeral, and to exert power pressure at different points of the planet in the recalcitable states. Therefore, in the modern world, private mercenaries are fighting everywhere in bloody baths, no one will ask for them and will not go to the rally with posters. They are behind the scenes and completely for the other grandmothers there, in a number of conflicts they are doing all the work, while the official American soldiers are heroically indicate their inherent in the same area, without turning the nose from their base, which was noted by many.

Blackwater Blackwater (Blackwater - Black Water) - From February 2009, it has been renamed "XE" (read as "zi") - a private American security company (in fact - a small, but powerful "private army" - in its ranks About 2.3 thousand professional mercenaries in the actual service and about 25 thousand soldiers in reserve. This organization provided and provides the most active support for the American troops in Iraq.).

The company was founded in 1996 (according to other data - in 1997) by the former officer of the US Naval Special Forces USA 27-year-old Eric Prince (Erik Prince). Headquarters is located in North Carolina. Over time, the security company turned into a real private army, and Prince himself became one of the main sponsors of the Republican Party.

In service with this company, this company has the entire arsenal of combat rifle weapons, armored personnel carriers and transport helicopters. It has training bases in the United States and some other countries.

Immediately after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, Blackwater appeared in Iraq. Since 2003, its employees guarded the head of the civil administration in Iraq, Bremer. The number of Blackwater soldiers participating in the active phase of war in Iraq is more than 10 thousand people. In the Iraqi campaign, according to different estimates, participated from 25 to 40 thousand soldiers of private companies, most of them from Blackwater.

According to the media, the loss of Blackwater soldiers in Iraq amounted to about 780 people, but these people are not taken into account in official statistics of military losses. What is definitely on the hand of the Bush administration. In addition, the crimes of the Blackwater soldier in Iraq do not fall into the rank of military. Blackwater armed soldiers saw the patrols of the streets of New Orleans during flooding.

The first losses of the private army Blackwater suffered in March 2004, when several employees were killed.

The company became sadly famous in connection with the Iraqis murder incident in September 2007. On September 16, 2007, Blackwater staff, guarding the US Department of State, on the central square of Baghdad, staged a shootout, which ended with the death of seventeen peaceful Iraqis. According to the results of the investigations, it turned out that the company's employees of Prince for the period from 2005 at that time were participating almost every two hundred shootings. Also, the company was suspected of smuggling in Iraq weapons.

The rigid behavior of American guards in Iraq, many are associated with the events of April 2003. Then four employees "Blackwater" were killed in El Falluczha. The disappeared bodies of the guards rebels hung on the bridge. Controlrs after that tightened their own security measures and began shooting the first. And they became tougher to do even with foreign diplomats. On October 1, the staff of the International Security Firm "Global", which was commanded by American, tried to watch cars of the Russian Embassy in Iraq and even threatened with weapons. It almost followed the response. After all, our diplomats took into account the fact that employees of private security firms in Iraq sometimes begin to shoot first. According to our diplomats, "serious consequences" managed to avoid thanks to the "Cool" Russians. Foreign Ministry of Russia regarded the actions of the guards "as a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961."

At the beginning of the Iraqi company, Blackwater staff rarely became the heroes of messages in the press. For the first time they saw them in the television shows, when the whole world bypassed frames, in which Iraqis taped the streets of El Fallugi burnt, disfigured corpses of four contractors. The ideas of the company's employees in Iraq seriously damaged its reputation. In 2009, the founder of the company Eric Prince left the post of its general director and in February Blackwater Worldwide officially changed the name on the "XE", and also uses the brand "U.S. Training Center".

Blackwater, founded in 1997 by retired American military, provided security services and did not stand out anything special until she attacted the golden core - federal contracts. With the beginning of the American campaign in Iraq, the George Bush administration unexpectedly began to resort to the services of the company and generously paid them. If Blackwater received $ 736 thousand from the federal budget of $ 736 thousand, already in 2005 the amount exceeded $ 25 million. In 2006, contracts were estimated at almost $ 600 million. In general, Blackwater for work in Iraq has already received more than a billion dollars. Currently, the income from Iraq makes up about 95% of the company's revenue.

Each day of the work of one mercenary from Blackwater costs the American budget on average at $ 1222. At the same time, the soldier of the American army, which performs a similar job (in the rank of sergeant) receives $ 140-190 per day (depending on the length of service, etc.) Thus, one Blackwater Action Action costs the American budget 6-9 times more expensive.

Determine the number of employees in Iraq mercenaries from private security agencies is difficult. Not all hired Blackwater people are listed by the company's employees. On the official Blackwater website in the section on vacancies emphasizes that if you work for the company, you will not officially be taken to the staff, and you will be an independent contract service. Estimates of the number of mercenaries in Iraq range from 25 thousand to more than one hundred thousand people (which is almost equal to the number of coalition servicemen). In Iraq, there are about 60 large and small security firms (not only American), in essence - private armies. It is worth noting that the White House is similarly used by mercenaries and in Afghanistan.

Interestingly, in 2001, the amount of annual contracts Blackwater did not reach a million dollars, and by 2007 exceeded a billion dollars.

Now this structure raises an unreal loot due to the threat of Somali pirates (they could eliminate them in one day, as I suspect Somali pirates - they will see the lobby of military corporations). President of the Corporation - Eric Prince. This American with a square chin and a short haircut served in the elite division of the US Navy. He was in Bosnia, in Haiti, in the Middle East. Prince believes that he will not be difficult for him to distinguish good from evil and on a new battlefield - in the open sea.

"When I see several guys in a six-meter fishing boat in the center of the Gulf of Aden's Gulf and even with grenade launches, I understand that they came to the sea not to go fishing," Prince said - the fool is clear that they have on the mind. "

The task of his people is to spend the cargo ships. The fighters for this new task he dials from the former soldiers of the elite units of the Navy. They are supposed to first warn attacking pirates by Rupor. Then to intimidate several times to shoot into the air. And only after that, performers will be treated for work, such as snipers on two helicopters, which are on board the McArthur warship.

Now they call dozens of new customers, mainly shipowners and insurance companies. Everyone wants one thing: so that the mercenaries from the Blackwater spend their cargo ships and tankers are safe and maintained along the coast of Somalia, the most dangerous waters in the world, poaching gangs, with Kalashnikov machine guns and grenade launches of all that falls on their eyes. The shields in the slippers, in plastic boats, they look like a small julier, with whom the coast guard boat can cope. In fact, they create huge problems of the navy of great powers and, naturally, governments in Berlin, Paris and Washington.

This year, Somali pirates attacked 90 with excess courts, three times more than in the past. They managed to capture and sink 39 cargo ships, tankers, fishing boats. And now at least 14 courts under strict guard are anchored by the shore, opposite the pirated villages. Their crews are waiting for several months when the pirates will receive a redemption and let them go free. According to UN estimates, shipowners paid for almost 25 million euros.

Blackwater Warves are not the only on the market of new services. Drum from Great Britain reports that the number of conjunction requests over the past year has increased tenfold. The head of Drum Peter Hopkins provides a brigade with a number from 4 to 8 people who climb the ships in Port Said so that in Oman or Mombasa again go to the ground. Four guards cost about 6500 euros per day plus travel expenses. They are armed, but first try to defend vessels using sound cannons and barbed wire.

American competitor to Blackwater John Harris prefers more hard tone. He guarantees that his Hollow Point fighters will not leave pirates no chance. In addition, they are able to free and already stolen vessels: "Anyway, we will deliver your team and the ship back," he assures. "Either we will agree, or send our squad."

After that, few questions arise already to whom it is advantageous that the Somali pirates and hysteria develop around. At a minimum - military corporations receiving super-profits from the protection of a serious trading path. And the strongest is just one of the many clutches, which then shivel to turn around the inhabitants working in the interests of media corporations.

Follow the news. There is a lot of interesting things if you dig))

Earth rumors are fulfilled, as well as its digital model - the worldwide network. You can even meet the revelations of one of the employees of the American private military company Blackwater on the combat capability of soldiers of different countries, including Russia.

Actually, ChvK Blackwater ("Black Water") She is academi - an American security company, founded in 1997. Blackwater's mercenaries are ready for a reasonable fee to provide services for military operations without having burdening themselves by the norms of morality and morality.

About these and other more details below. As in any classic top, start offered from the weakest.

8. African tribes.

The militant inhabitants of the black continent who do not even have basic concepts about military training. Understand that when you press the trigger, the machine produces a shot, but no more. The shooting is disorderly, often in their comrades. After several victims or a tank shot with horror, they scatter. Clearly depicted on the famous video.

7. African regulators.

Unlike his wild fellow, they are dressed in the form of some group or quasi-state, and also understand how to combine in the review of the whole and fly. Actually, only against paragraph 8 and are combed, and in a collision with a slightly less skilled opponent, they willingly self-suite about its cartridges and shells or scatter on the parties. Perhaps the presence of armored vehicles, but not the slightest understanding of its functioning.

6. Arabs.

Mercenaries, rebels, many regulators ...
Tactics and strategy are for them the same Movetona, as for a convinced orthodox Jew with pork dishes. Their war is on launching in the estimated side of the enemy megaton cartridges and various explosive devices under constant screams about Allu and bar. Will illegitly explode themselves with handicrafts, while not necessarily damage the enemy.

At the same time, paradoxically, the regular army of the Arab countries still try to abide by the discipline and demonstrate the primitives of military skills. Very coward, but because of a special attitude to death, they can not be called panicoers.

5. American regulators.

The military art of American regular army soldiers is limited, in fact, art. Beautiful films about the invincible army were removed in a huge amount, but hardly reflect validity.

The main difference between the cinema war from the present - Yankees can fight only on the burden. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan - everywhere American soldiers are successfully moving only after pre-treatment with bloody carpet bombards, tanks or napalm, otherwise the operation is usually completed by failure. It affects the lack of experience in wars on its territory. Even during the training, pre-processing of the area atomic bombs is used.

A lot of time is given to training aiming shooting and coordination as part of the group, but in front of real resistance it is robied and become easy prey. Cowards are extremely hard to experience losses, which is why they quickly lose motivation and combat capability.

4. American mercenaries.

Not the worst fighters, perform almost any whim for money tenants. Basically - the overthrow of non-profit regimes and various Middle Eastern "dictators" or, on the contrary, rebel suppression, for example, the Blackwater operation in the Donbas. An excellent level of preparation, often even one such - warrior in the field.

In this case, selfish and calculated. The main motivation is the money that will be for them in the event of death in the operation. Therefore, do not climb into the hottest points and avoid the first line of fire, assessing personal risks.

3. Asians.

As part of the group, Asian fighters are able to deliver painful headache to any opponent. It is difficult to assume that they happen in their head, but to expect from them to any recklessness. Create a truly cunning and tangled plan for which the enemy often falls into the ambush.

In support of technology do not need, as, however, and in the presence of cartridges for a rifle. The main thing is the presence of fellow, without which the Asian mercenary becomes quickly useless.

2. Caucasians and Afghans.

Strong, hardy and brave wars, with excellent combat skills. At the same time, they effectively act in both groups and a single way. There are no lack of motivation, they are not frightened at the sight of military equipment and air strikes. Martialctions lead competently using tactical and strategic planning, effectively use ambushes.

The main disadvantage is the inability to fight to the last inhalation, the fighters will not sacrifice themselves for the sake of the common victory. The exception is shakhids, but it is rather to representatives of the Arab world.

1. Russian.

Countering the platoon of Russian fighters means a tall and bloody messenger. They will fight to the end, to the last cartridge, and even it is not able to stop them - any healthy items go to the move. The mortal injury does not guarantee that the Russian can be safely suitable for the Russian: most likely, a pomegranate chosen in his hands without checks.

Inventiveness, intuition and email leaves do not leave hopeless situations. In extreme cases, even the aircraft can be shot down by a sapny blade, and the tank is stopped by bare hands. Fighters, never holding SVDs, are at a critical point to get from it at the limit of the range. Near this rifle turns into an even more terrible weapon, which even the cartridges are not required.

Tactics and strategy are organized at such a level that even a semi-bodied cripple is capable of retaining the opponent's rob. At the same time, even hired fighters are unable to retreat. And if they retreat - it means they just run on cartridges. Of course, experienced army women are not worse than mercenaries, and a sufficient amount of experience is gained in the first combat clashes.

The first written mention of such a phenomenon as mercy refers to the IV century BC. e. Obviously, people participating in armed conflicts on one or another side only for the sake of benefits were before. Despite all humanistic achievements of humanity, they are today. Moreover, at the moment there are several military companies engaged in the delivery of mercenaries, the most famous of which is Blackwater (at the moment ACADEMI) - created "Sea Cat" Eric Prince.

A family

Eric Prince was born on June 6, 1969 in the small town of Holland in Michigan. His father Edgar with his wife Elza at that time had three children. The family of princes for several generations preached the right-Christian views.

The father of the future king mercenaries began as a seller, receiving only 40 cents per hour. Thanks to persistence and hardworking, he has accumulated the right amount and in 1965 founded the company for the production of machine tools for the low tide of the PRINCE Machine Corporation Automobile Body. Soon, the entrepreneur has established the production and other spare parts. This allowed Edgar Prince to expand his business and in the shortest possible time to bring profit to six digits. However, this was not the limit, and soon the family had a network of companies and real estate with a total cost of 1 billion dollars.

In the early 1970s, Edgar Prince patented a sunscreen visor and sold 5,000 instances of General Motors. In the 90s, the production of such products at the company's enterprises was 20,000 pcs. in a day. In addition, in the 1980s, as a result of the marriage of sisters, Erica with an offense of one of the most influential "republican" clans of the United States, the family of princes has acquired the necessary connections on the country's political Olymp.

Childhood

Thus, Eric Prince has grown in a very secured family. After all, on his father, every fourth adult resident of his native Holland worked. However, Puritan traditions prescribeing children in rigor were strong in his family. His father loved to travel with his family. Together they traveled the whole world. The teenager Eric Prince visited Germany, where Dakhau's concentration camp, as well as according to his mother, these trips made a big impression on the young man, leaving an indelible mark in his soul.

Study

As a child, Eric Prince (date of birth: June 6, 1969) visited the Christian school. After her end, he entered the US Naval Academy and visited it for 3 semesters. However, soon strict discipline and orders who reigned in this university, and in 1992, a young man was transferred to the Faculty of Economics Hillsdale College. In parallel with Eric Prince, the photo of which are presented in the article, served as voluntary fire and diver for Hillsdale County Sheriff.

Carier start

In 1990, Prince became an intern in the White House with George Bush - senior. However, soon began to work with the senator from California, the Congressman Den Rokhrabahher, the former speech of the President of Ronald Reagan. The new cartridge appreciated Eric, calling him a "bright young man." At the age of 21, Prince voluntarily went to find a mass burial of opponents of Daniela Orthega regimen, and later made a report that he managed to find them.

Service in the Navy of the United States

After College, Eric Prince, whose business is currently associated with the security of the Logistics of the People's Republic of China, graduated from the Officers School and in 1992 he was appointed an officer of the US Navy.

He became a "sea cat" and as part of the 8th detachment participated in military missions to Haiti, the Middle East and the Balkans. During the service period, as part of the American special forces, Eric Prince met many dichy warriors, who later became his faithful assistants and comrades. In his autobiography, he argues that he realized the need for private training centers to prepare special operations during the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s.

Career in business

In 1995, the father of Erica Prince died. Working at sixteen hours a day without weekends and holidays for 2 decades did not bestly affect the health of the workaholic's businessman, and his heart could not stand. Eric resigned and took control over family business. He worked without downtrend, but soon his mother decided to sell Prince Machine Corporation.

The new owner of the company was Johnson Controls, who paid Mrs. Prince 1.35 billion dollars in cash. Since many employees worked on Father Erica from the moment of founding, in the purchase / sale agreement there was an item that the old staff should not be dismissed over the next 10 years. However, as often happens, the new owner immediately made a reduction in 2/3 of the workers and changed the name of the company, although he promised to leave it unchanged. A part of the money reached for the sale of a family-owned enterprise went to Eric, who decided to invest them into an unusual business.

Creating a Blackwater Worldwide

Eric Prince, whose biography in her early youth already known to you, in 1997 moved to Virginia Beach. There he founded school to prepare special Blackwater Worldwide operations. For this purpose, Prince pre-bought 6,000 acres of land in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Great Deep Marsh Marsh of North Carolina. It must be said that the authorities of the town and its inhabitants first extremely negatively reacted to the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a militarized landfill next to their homes. However, the prince managed to convince them that the new training center would serve the prosperity of Virginia Beach.

By the end of 1998, the Blackwater Worldwide base had several conference rooms, more than a dozen audiences for theoretical classes, shop, comfortable holiday facilities, dining room, arsenal with a separate room for cleaning weapons, as well as rooms with satellite TV for VIP guests who have decided Go through the "course of a young fighter." In the same year, the company organized and spent on its territory a shooting competition for Shoot-Out at BW. It was attended by representatives of the law enforcement bodies from the American military units.

Subsequently, Prince repeatedly noted that he created the Blackwater Worldwide company because of the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994. According to him, what happened there, he was really disturbed, and he realized that he could not sit back and preach. Initially, Prince acted only as a "wallet" of a new company, and all the programs developed by Clark, which before moving to Virginia Beach, served as an instructor for the use of firearms in the divisions of the "Marine Cotes".

The activities of Blackwater

The creation of a Prince company coincided with the cost of reducing expenses by the initiator of which was the entire army logistics and functions that are not related to direct hostilities should be transferred to private firms. First of all, the military department got rid of training bases, among which were frankly obsolete, including those constructed during World War II.

Thus, the appearance of a private training center equipped with the most modern equipment was timely, and the services of Blackwater immediately became in demand. From 1997 to 2010, Prince received 2 billion US dollars in government security contracts. At the same time, more than 1.6 billion amounted to non-classified federal contracts, information about which is secret and is not subject to disclosure.

In addition, from 2001 to 2010, the central intelligence department listed Blackwater company 600 million US dollars. On the first decade, after its foundation, the brainchild of Prince became the largest of the three private security firms of the United States State Department, providing US embassies and military bases deployed abroad, 987 guards.

Over the years, at the training base of Prince, the preparation of policemen and there were even coming representatives of the law enforcement agencies from neighboring Canada. In addition, Blackwater's armed soldiers were noticed on the streets of New Orleans during flooding. They carried out patrols in order to prevent the facts of the looting and preventing other crimes against the life and property of citizens who endure disaster.

Mission in Iraq

The company "Blackwater" lit up in the hottest points of the planet. In particular, its divisions appeared in Iraq almost immediately after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Since 2003, the employees of the company officially entrusted to the head of the Civil Administration of Iraqa Paul Bremer. At the same time, the number of soldiers of the Blackwater, who participated in the war in Iraq, amounted to more than 10,000 people.

According to American media, the losses of Mercenaries Prince in Iraq amounted to about 780 people. Interestingly, this figure was not taken into account in the official statistics of military losses. This, of course, was on the hand of the administration of President Bush, who was so criticized for a large number of those killed in Iraq. In addition, the crimes of Blackwater mercenaries did not fall into the category of military.

Criticism of the company "Blackwater"

Although Eric Prince, who became one of the first in his sphere, always said that he was close to Humanism, but Blackwater was repeatedly in the center of loud scandals. One of these events was the mass murder on Nisur Square in September 2007. Then the company's employees opened fire on the square in Baghdad crowded by the people, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and seriously wounded another 20 people.

The criticism of the organization "Blackwater" continued after President Barack Obama entered office in 2008. In one of the interviews, Prince noted that most of the negative information that was distributed about him and his company was related to policies. According to him, although he gave himself and his firm at the disposal of the CIA, when the political course has changed, he was decided to "reset from the train."

Nevertheless, in 2010, the administration of Barack Obama concluded a contract with Blackwater contract for the amount of $ 120 million. In addition, the CIA made a prince order for services worth 100 million dollars. Three years later, the founder of Blackwater offered to the Libyan government to create an army of mercenaries from the former Australian special forces to take control of the eastern regions of Australia. Later, Prince offered to create privately coastal service in Libya to suspend the refugee flow to Europe. Theoretically financing the project should have been the European Union and Libya. According to Prince, financing should have been carried out at the expense of the amounts on the blocked accounts of Gaddafi. These ideas did not find support in the European Union and were not implemented.

There is also information that in 2014, Prince went to Nigeria, where he proposed for 1.5 billion American dollars to end with the Radical Organization "Boko Haram", as well as overlapping all oil theft channels in this country. These proposals were also not accepted.

During the last presidential campaign, the businessman supported the candidate from the republican party Donald Trump. At the same time, he was not entrusted with any official tasks. It is known to reliably that in December 2016, Prince visited the New York Offices of the Trump Transition Team in New York. In April 2017, there was information that Trump and Eric Prince were as close as the President asked him on January 11, 2017 to organize a meeting with the representative of Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles. The purpose of consultations should be to find out the position of Russia on cooperation with Iran. To verify these goals, an investigation was launched, which was conducted by the CIA.

As members of the administration of the American president, and Dmitry Sadkov categorically denied the preparation of such a secret meeting. Eric Prince himself, whose personal life is presented below, also denied the fact of his participation in the organization of informal negotiations. Moreover, he expressed bewilderment about the fact that his country's intelligence is engaged in a surveillance for its citizens, and not a hunt for terrorists.

Nevertheless, everyone knows that the founder of Blackwater donated 250,000 dollars on the pre-election campaign of the 45th US president. In addition, in the political circles of the United States, it is not a secret that the closest adviser to Trump Stephen Bannon and Eric Prince are close friends, and the last sister was appointed to the post of Minister of Education.

Mercenary Army in Emirates

In 2011, the UAE authorities signed a contract with Reflex Responses, which was another brainchild of the Creator Blackwater. The contract provided for the preparation of foreign mercenaries to combat terrorism, ensuring the internal security of the United Arab Emirates and the suppression of uprisings and riots in the camps of hired workers.

The preparation of fighters that are not citizens of the UAE, experienced instructors were engaged. The overwhelming majority of Reflex Responses employees involved in the provision of services, according to a document signed with the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, were former special forces from the United States, Germany, Great Britain and French Foreign Legion.

Recently it became known that Eric Prince (Erik Prince) displays its private army from the UAE. His mercenaries were transferred to the United States for 70 aircraft. There is information that this way, President Trump decided to provide himself with the support of his own troops, which will be ready to fulfill any order for money.

In the service of Beijing

In early May 2017, many newspapers and Internet resources all over the world have distributed information that the Chinese government invited the former Blackwater Director to organize the protection of the Great Silk Road. At the moment, Eric Prince is the head of the Hong Kong company FRONTIER SERVICES GROUP (FSG). This firm builds 2 operational bases in the West of the PRC - in the province of Yunnan and in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area. In an interview with FINANCIAL Times, Eric Prince (Blackwater, at the moment he no longer belongs), explained that FSG is not a military, but a logistics company whose activities are aimed at promoting China on the "Expansion of Trade". At the same time, he notes that security is part of the logistics process. At the same time, Prince emphasizes that his employees are not armed, and the security is not included in its functions.

Personal life

The main achievement to which Eric Prince is still proud to this day is Blackwater - one of the first commercial armies in the world. In addition, it is the founder and other companies, to control the activities of which he had to be constantly in the road. Despite this, he managed to repeatedly become a father and join the marriage twice.

The first wife of the businessman and the former "maritime cat" - Joan - died of cancer in 2003. While she was sick, Prince had a novel with nanny of their four children Joan Hawk. To honor, Erica must be said that he did not regret the strength and means to put a spouse on his feet. However, all efforts were in vain.

A year after the death of Spouse, Eric married Hawk, who had long carried all the burden of care for the care and upbringing of his older children. In the second marriage, Prince was born three more kids. His younger child, Charles Donovan, was named after William Wild Bill Donovan.

Now you know who Eric Prince is. The activity of this person is full of riddles, many of which are most likely, many more decades will be secret for seven seals. Prince is not yet 50, and its ambitiousness and the ability to achieve their goals have long become therefore, most likely in the coming years, the name of this former "Moscow Cat" will be in the focus of world media.