jamie
03-19-2009, 12:07 AM
Should companies such as Xe exist?
Xe(Formally Black Water) is a private military company(legal mercenaries) and security firm founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. It has alternatively been referred to as a mercenary organization by numerous reports in the international media, and has a wide array of business divisions, subsidiaries, and spin-off corporations.
Based in the American state of North Carolina, Xe operates a tactical training facility which the company claims is the world's largest, and at which the company trains more than 40,000 people a year, mostly from U.S. or foreign military and police services. The training consists of military offensive and defensive operations, as well as smaller scale personal security.
Xe Worldwide is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors. Of the 987 contractors Xe provides, 744 are U.S. citizens. At least 90 percent of the company's revenue comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts. Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the Department of State on a contractual basis. They no longer have a presence in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country, and has denied their application for an operating license in January 2009.
Love,
Jamie
Xe(Formally Black Water) is a private military company(legal mercenaries) and security firm founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. It has alternatively been referred to as a mercenary organization by numerous reports in the international media, and has a wide array of business divisions, subsidiaries, and spin-off corporations.
Based in the American state of North Carolina, Xe operates a tactical training facility which the company claims is the world's largest, and at which the company trains more than 40,000 people a year, mostly from U.S. or foreign military and police services. The training consists of military offensive and defensive operations, as well as smaller scale personal security.
Xe Worldwide is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors. Of the 987 contractors Xe provides, 744 are U.S. citizens. At least 90 percent of the company's revenue comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts. Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the Department of State on a contractual basis. They no longer have a presence in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country, and has denied their application for an operating license in January 2009.
Love,
Jamie