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Old 12-09-2008, 08:47   #7
csquare
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Originally Posted by The Reaper View Post
IMHO, conventional troops, poorly trained, and poorly led.

TR
Agree with TR
The guards are a former Marine from West Valley City, Utah; a former Marine from Knoxville, Tenn.; a former Marine from Rochester, N.H.; a former Army sergeant from Sparta, Tenn.; and an Army veteran from Keller, Texas.

IMHO, Blackwater's contracts got so large, they started dropping their standards to fill those contracts. I know I wasn't there, but I'm sorry, no "shake and bake" course on PSD will make you proficent at the job if you have no prior experience. And I doubt their ROE was to shoot up the entire area if you can't indentify where the shooting is coming from.
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