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Sky One - Guns for hire : Afghanistan
Sky One - Guns for hire : Afghanistan
started at 10 so i'm a little late.. Good program so far about a British private security firm in 'stan
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Doc
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mfat_man
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Wanted to watch it but in the Baltic at the moment... nearly started a BG firm with a long time MFAT friend who was working in Iraq. That would have been a licence to print lolly!SO19 wrote:Just finished watching it now, next part is on same time next Monday.
The blokes were from Global Strategies Group.
Ai yo, I cor understand why yove got anything against the good people of the Black Countray. Yoam bein regionalist yo am.gseph wrote:Yeah, it was pretty good, in my opinion.
What are people's thoughts on this "career after the forces" option?
What about that guy locked up...He seemed to be doing well for himself in the so-called prison!
It's a submarine not a f*cking tambourine !
HA!!!
I come from Birmingham and have a Birmingham accent...
It's just when people hear me and they're not from Birmingham and they assume we all speak the same!
They are usually supprised when they find out I am a born-n-raised brummie, and think we all speak the local dialect found towards the outskirts of the city and within the black-country area...
Birmingham is not the black-country and we do not all speak like the yam-yams:)
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Well I watched it last night and it was a tad bland. Didnt really concentrate on a story line, just waffled about abit.
Top company eh? Well how come they were using AK's then. Not a M4 insight, and these guys were embassy guards. Cheapest quote won the day there then.
Drills were a shambles, from the live firing range to the secondary device incident. "Err yes theres been a bomb, they are looking for a secondary, so we'll drive into the area in a soft skinned vehicle and park by a huge petrol tanker near a white car identical to the one reported as carrying the intial device."
Back to the range stuff, pistol stances and drills were crap, fire and movement from contact front drills out of the wagons were beyond belief.
Oh and an ex-Aussie who dabbled in chinese medicine spends his time racing to incidents to offer first aid, or offering penicillin to hookers with a huge smile on his face.
Well at least I can cross Global off my places to send CV to.
Then again I got a job so why am I bothered
Top company eh? Well how come they were using AK's then. Not a M4 insight, and these guys were embassy guards. Cheapest quote won the day there then.
Drills were a shambles, from the live firing range to the secondary device incident. "Err yes theres been a bomb, they are looking for a secondary, so we'll drive into the area in a soft skinned vehicle and park by a huge petrol tanker near a white car identical to the one reported as carrying the intial device."
Back to the range stuff, pistol stances and drills were crap, fire and movement from contact front drills out of the wagons were beyond belief.
Oh and an ex-Aussie who dabbled in chinese medicine spends his time racing to incidents to offer first aid, or offering penicillin to hookers with a huge smile on his face.
Well at least I can cross Global off my places to send CV to.
Then again I got a job so why am I bothered
Being a Sky production there's only so much you can expect. It was hardly the definitive guide to PMC's was it... there are far better programmes and books for that.
Doc, Global Strategy Group aside, you'll find theres a shed load of top blokes out there using Kalashnikov's, and that isn't because they're cheap either.Top company eh? Well how come they were using AK's then. Not a M4 insight
[i]‘We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat’ - Queen Victoria, 1899[/i]
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anglo-saxon
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Nowt wrong with the AK. A very robust and reasonably accurate weapon. It's just tha most of the types who use them can't shoot worth crap! Only thing to stop them would be if you filled 'em wi' concrete. The M4 is having probs in the sand. Many M14s in eveidence now. A contractor buddy was issued an M4. Said it was crap. Couldn't group well with it. He replaced the barrel with a commercial 11" and got better groups than with the issue 16". He's a sigs contractor doing half and half sigs/CP. 390 pounds/day.SO19 wrote: Doc, Global Strategy Group aside, you'll find theres a shed load of top blokes out there using Kalashnikov's, and that isn't because they're cheap either.
Seems like there's all manner of outfits out there now, from very profesional with state-sponsored back-up, to absolute cowboys looking to get whacked real quick! One guy I know works as a CP team leader, making US$800/day for Tripple Canopy. Another works for a Brit outfit. They offered me US$10k a month as an Ops O. No thanks. I can make that on a tour in 'stan just with the tax-free status, and field operatons allowance, etc., esp. as the old US dollar just aint what it used to be!
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