Memos: Blackwater Team Sent Wrong Way

[Team Sergeant]

eric prince, owner of blackwater, you're a scumbag.

Team Sergeant




Jul 8, 11:19 PM EDT

Memos: Blackwater Team Sent Wrong Way


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Internal memos show that four security contractors who were ambushed and killed in Iraq three years ago were told to go through the dangerous city of Fallujah when a safer route was available, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The memos said a Blackwater USA supervisor also plucked two members of each six-man team for other work, reducing the teams' numbers and making them more vulnerable to attack, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported.

Memos from the second team - whose leader decided to go around Fallujah on March 31, 2004, and which wasn't attacked - said the teams also were sent without maps, although other memos suggest maps were available, the newspaper said.

"These reports were written by people who were not there," Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell told The Associated Press. "The answer to what really happened in Fallujah is a tragedy in which four brave men were killed."

Tyrrell said she couldn't comment on specifics because of pending litigation and wouldn't comment on the memos.

A team called Bravo 2, which went around Fallujah, said both teams were told to go through the city but got back to Baghdad safely because they took a different route than the one they were told to use.

The other team, called November 1, went into the city as instructed, escorting empty trucks, and ran into a deadly ambush, according to the memos.

The Bravo 2 memos said the decisions were made by Blackwater's site manager in Baghdad, despite protests that the teams had too few people and weren't ready, the newspaper said.

Bravo 2 was ordered the morning after it arrived from the United States to go to the Jordanian border, pick up an executive for a food service company and take him to Baghdad, a memo said.

Team members protested that they hadn't had time to sight their weapons to be sure they were accurate. They were told to do their job or go home, a memo said.

Families of the four men killed sued Blackwater. The company (Blackwater) countersued and won a ruling that the disputes would be heard in closed arbitration sessions instead of open court.

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[Team Sergeant]

Why did the Team Sergeant call eric prince, the owner of blackwater a scumbag?

Former Navy SEAL eric prince knows why.

eric knows that in an open court he would lose this case. eric knows that those men were sent to their deaths the minute they were told that they could not zero their weapons.

The butcher of Baghdad got nothing on eric prince.

Now you kids may ask “Why is it so important to zero your weapons before you head into terrorist country?”

Let me put it this way, I, the Team Sergeant know it’s extremely important, so does every Professional Soldier, especially special operations forces, so does eric prince and the military leadership of blackwater.

It’s so critical that I would challenge any blackwater employee to a one on one, me armed with a zeroed weapon and ONE bullet, the other guy could have as many bullets as he chooses, the weapon, un-zeroed. Hear that eric prince?

Zeroing your weapon is that important and it becomes exponentionally critical when you are a team of FOUR.

Eric prince knows if this case went into open court he would lose, the defense would be calling on real SOF, SEAL and Special Forces, experienced soldiers, to testify just how important it would be to possess a zeroed weapon. Want to bet blackwater’s weapons “experts” include former mall security guards?

Now eric prince counter-sues the families of the men blackwater sent to their deaths; I've yet to read a more disgusting news article.

Bravo eric prince, bravo blackwater. I’m sure you’ll win in “closed arbitration”.

Team Sergeant

[Team Sergeant]

Oh and eric prince….. as one SOF soldier to another, do you (and BLACKWATER), need me to go and find a bridge for your lawyers to HANG the wives, mothers, fathers brothers and sisters of the men that were killed that day?

Team Sergeant

[82ndtrooper]

If I were Eric Prince, which I thank my God I'm not, I'd steer clear of Team Sergeant at "Shot Show 2008"

[Gypsy]

Well 82ndtrooper, my guess is there are a lot of folks he would do best to stay away from.

His actions, and subsequent lawsuit for closed door arbitration sessions, shows me how much of a no good POS he is...among other things.

[The Reaper]

The really sad thing is that he has more than enough money to have taken care of business.

Clearly, people are not a priority, probably not even in the top ten at BW.

I have been at his facility when he was out stunting around in one of his airplanes, and they regularly stopped training on the 1000 yard range for extended periods so that he could land one of his planes there.

[jatx]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Now you kids may ask “Why is it so important to zero your weapons before you head into terrorist country?

Maybe Dr. Gary Roberts, Doctor of Ballistic Dentistry who once purchased a t-shirt in the gift shop at Stanford, did some gel testing for BW showing that it is unnecessary.