In Defense of Private Military Firms
OK, I am not even going to try to figure out what in the holy hell is going on here:
Private security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts to gain promotions or assignment to preferable shifts, according to one of 12 guards who have gone public with their complaints.
“It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate,” said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties.
“They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted,” said the guard, spoke on condition that ABC News not publish his name.
But, I do have a few thoughts. First off, I doubt this is truly as bad as they are making it sound, but if it is, fire them all, cancel the contract etc. But, just because I see it in the news, I am now almost more inclined NOT to believe it. Take the “Eric Prince is the King of Asassins, and also he thinks this is a crusade” story that VoteVets and other retardos are trying to peddle. Nope. Not buying it one bit. And someone still needs to explain to those guys what a civil case is, and how it differs from criminal.
What I can say though is that I served with DynCorps on President Karzai’s protective detail. The guys were of 2 minds on the use of the PMFs, largely because they were paid roughly 4 times what we were. Fair enough. But, I met all the guys on that detail, and to a man they were consummate professionals who were there to do something they believed in. Everyone loves to use the phrase “Mercenary” and really has no clue what that really means, or the fact that largely these PMFs aren’t engaged in shooting, they are more likely to be found fixing showers, washing our clothes etc.
So, whatever they find out about this company, I hope they let us know. And if this is like Custer-Battles and the great fiasco of renting trucks from them, I hope they screw these bastards to the wall. Because they are giving other organizations like DynCorps and others a bad name.
After the jump, one of the pictures, which I swear before god looks like Ineedadinnerjacket partying with Sniper.
Category: Politics
I’ve been to some crazy parties in the Junior Officer billets on Suwon AB South Korea (affectionately known as the Crack House), but, damn.
Ugh, Corona? Have some self respect.
This is like a feminist birthday gift!
First of all this is a hostile work environment.
Second of all you won’t get to the bottom (although….ok, too easy) or the whole truth because of the implications of homosexuality.
Thirdly I never saw more grab ass than in the military. Men like to touch each other because human contact is pleasurable. We just have a really hard time understanding that pleasure doesn’t only exist in the sexual realm, OR that if a person does sexually like it that is ok too.
I think this is one of the big reasons men seem to think that any time a women talks to them it means they want to have sex. Just because these guys were naked and touching each other doesn’t meant that they wanted to have sex with each other. Imagine if it was naked women involved and one was raped, this conduct and photos would be used to justify that rape. Any of the men involved in this situation who had sex against his will was raped. If that claim is made I don’t think many people would use these pictures to say he is “crying rape”.
The other unfortunate aspect is that anyone who willing had sex is likely to say it was rape in order to not appear as though he is gay. The only thing worse is actually raping someone.
Anyway you look at it our views of sexuality and male interaction are gonna make this a crappy situation for those involved.
Don’t get stuck on the “imagine if naked women were involved”. Read the whole damn post.
Stop talking to me Jen, I already have a girlfriend and she reads this blog, so no sex for us.
Snark aside, I agree. There was more gay imagery in the infantry than I see anywhere else.
Thats ok, I’ll only talk to her.
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