How To Make $250,000 a Year as a Mercenary

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The life of a Mercenary isn’t easy or without significant risk, but for those who decide to pursue such an occupation, it can very lucrative. Here’s how to make $250,000 a year by working as a Mercenary.
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0:00 The Modern Mercenary
1:04 The history of Mercenary work
5:30 Mercenary pay grade
6:58 Ground News
8:27 How to become a Mercenary
10:20 What a modern mercenary does
10:57 Why mercenaries even exist
13:24 The weaknesses of mercenaries
15:47 The legality of mercenary work
16:41 The dangers of private security companies
17:19 The debate around Mercenaries
18:14 Outro

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@kojothicc Жыл бұрын

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@tonnotonante Жыл бұрын

Sir Swag casually creating mercenary groups to use for his future coup d'etat. Gotta admire the dedication to a plan

@knatureknight7504 Жыл бұрын

They are gonna take over a government and they can probably do better the the government

@epicgamerzfail4575 Жыл бұрын

If thats the case, sign me up for the sir swag revolution

@ChrisPBacon-gn9jx Жыл бұрын

I feel like having a group fighting for SS might need some rebranding

@dantehedge8414 Жыл бұрын

In order to beat his country all he needs is emus

@Jonathan-sc8fq Жыл бұрын

big boss

@Peluceus Жыл бұрын

Good to know before the Swiss became entirely neutral to all conflict, they were still entirely neutral - just donated their armies to whoever paid the most.

@drazarkabalblade9486 Жыл бұрын

Isshh. They started, if I remember right, to REALLY cut down on the number of peoples that they sent to war, mostly because after a series of bloody battle they almost found themselves with a decimated male population. It kinda changes following the flow of history, but as a rule the Swiss take their neutrality VERY seriously. If you go as a merch, you're going yourself, and you can lose your citizenship for that ( It happened when during the WWII if I remember right. Some Swiss had a dual citizenship, so they decided to go and serve in the Wermacht. That was considered illegal ). As of now, only the Swiss Guard in service to the Papacy is "active" as a unit. Anyone else has always being considered strictly private individuals going on their own, and as of a ruling of the 1874 you cannot be recruited by a foreing state.

@supportgap7748 Жыл бұрын

I think they made being a mercenary illegal, because there were battles between foreign countries where swiss people fought against swiss people. And so to stay neutral and avoid that brothers fight on opposite sides of wars, they just banned it.

@Jonathan-sc8fq Жыл бұрын

thats not neutral😭

@Peluceus Жыл бұрын

@@Jonathan-sc8fq They'll side with anyone - just who pays the most. Seems pretty neutral to me. Esp if they end up getting into a financial race buying each other out

@supportgap7748 Жыл бұрын

@@Jonathan-sc8fq that‘s the definition of neutral. You don‘t prefer anybody, and treat all parties equally. Its not pacifist, but it most definitely is neutral.

@HEKVT Жыл бұрын

Instructions unclear - Started a PMC, worked for a weapons smuggler, ended up destabilising all of Central Africa

@codytyndall1077 Жыл бұрын

Implying it was stable to begin with, thos guy. 🤣🤣

@Alex-uc2ny Жыл бұрын

hey, at least you aren't destroying the English language.

@RK-cj4oc Жыл бұрын

Then you fully understood the instructions.

@bilbono6015 Жыл бұрын

I heard you were the one who took down The Jackal

@robertmedlock Жыл бұрын

Gotta love them blood diamonds tho

@redbard4300 Жыл бұрын

So basically get hired to do things that the militaries would find inconvenient to do themselves.

@JokerLover123 Жыл бұрын

"Inconvenient"

@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Жыл бұрын

Basically all that the US and Russia have been doing in Syria the last 2 decades

@koleeckhoff9427 Жыл бұрын

Also known as the dirty work they can accuse you of a war crime for when you ask for your paycheck.

@charlesludwig8672 Жыл бұрын

That's the spirit!

@JamesBongo Жыл бұрын

So do the dirt work for scumbag billionaires...

@Lozoot2 Жыл бұрын

Instructions very clear; started a PMC after being betrayed by my country, bought an oil rig in the Seychelles, developed the most advanced weapons system in the world, lost it all because of a crybaby with robot legs, got cloned without my permission, started a new PMC, got that destroyed by one of my clones, and now two of my clone sons are fighting over my shriveled corpse which is actually my third clone but one of the clones is just an arm and they're old men and *A HIDEO KOJIMA GAME*

@little_hunt3r Жыл бұрын

That is probably the most succinct and prompt retelling of metal gear I have ever seen.

@galacticupfan7386 Жыл бұрын

I watched a four hour retelling of metal gear solid and this made so much more sense

@ninjartist36 Жыл бұрын

Directed by Hideo Kojima

@user-oz6ue6li5r Жыл бұрын

Boss will you train with me?

@ComradeCorvus Жыл бұрын

I saw the oil rig and I immediately knew what this was

@aceofspadesguy4913 Жыл бұрын

Important to note that the overwhelming majority of contractors are support personnel like flight instructors, mechanics, etc. The military runs on contractors.

@honkhonk8009 Жыл бұрын

Its pretty efficient too. Contract work in the US, even for the private sector, is getting MASSIVE. My dads in software, and doesnt even have a permanent normal job. Hes a contractor and earns like $75 an hour through it. I assume the same goes for the military. PMC's aint bad though. I remember when they rescued a few village members from islamic radicals, even though they werent paid to do it. They were originally hired to guard a french oil refinery somewhere in Africa, and basically helped airlift villagers to safety purely out of samiratan work. Only reason PMCs are villanized, is because of morons in journalism who know nothing about the modern corporate world imo.

@arianmoore4474 Жыл бұрын

@Honk Honk well thats part of the convenience of them, the nation cares very little of they die and you can cast them as villains or throw them under the bus as necessary because they serve your colors, but don't wear them.

@errebusaether Жыл бұрын

@@honkhonk8009 It’s kinda sad. They all put the blame that PMC’s are villains. But, that’s the job that PMC has to go through since they aren’t legally protected from moral liability due to the questionable protection given from Geneva Conventions. Just like everyone else, it all depends on whether their good or not. But that depends on what the media wants us to see. Perhaps, disguising myself in contract jobs especially in war will be necessary… if I don’t want to get stoned at. (But, yeah. I really need money not because I want it. But if I can save human lives then I don’t mind doing that either since we’re all humans).

@edouard9867 11 ай бұрын

@@honkhonk8009 the issue with some islamic radicals in africa is that they are native of the land. So they might have shot the locals...

@komiks42 11 ай бұрын

@@honkhonk8009Ther are two sides of merceneries. They can be pretty can save vilage, but they can also be the one rsiding that vilage, it all depends by the group.

@aphoriste5067 Жыл бұрын

As a U.S. Marine about to retire and jump into the PMC line of work, this couldn't have dropped at a better time.

@user-md1po9op4o Жыл бұрын

how do you get into contact with the people who need you? like where and how do you apply?

@ember3579 Жыл бұрын

@@user-md1po9op4o Depending on what they need, they're liable to be banging on your door more than the local base sleazy car salesman.

@aphoriste5067 Жыл бұрын

@@hewer3383 Lmaoo, I enjoyed my 6 years in but facts it's time to head out

@morisco56 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@juanpablo4831 Жыл бұрын

Lmk how it goes cuz i might join as well

@punishedbung4902 Жыл бұрын

It’s really easy to get recruited, just pray the boss isn’t trying to recruit you during a sandstorm… it’s a coin flip if they’re able to find your Fulton in the chaos.

@RonJeremy514 Жыл бұрын

If you are S rank then the boss might put a bit more more effort and use a teleporter fulton variant.

@theoriginalchefboyardee1740 Жыл бұрын

He’s coming too? Roger that.

@BlackMoonHowls Жыл бұрын

@@RonJeremy514 We do have to get out there and save Hideo, so yes the Boss is coming.

@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Жыл бұрын

And once you're on base prepare to receive "combat training" from the boss A LOT

@krsmanjovanovic8607 Жыл бұрын

@@cabnbeeschurgr6440 Gets run over by jeep, choked, punched in the face with bionic arm and then squirted with water gun: ''Thanks for that Boss!' O7'

@Cjoudan Жыл бұрын

as someone who was active duty, i heard about merc work and saw the pay. then I remember that you aren't protected at all by what the US armed forced does for you.

@leichtgesalzener-kabeljaurogge Жыл бұрын

for example? not meant to slander, i m just curious. ethics aside what are the perks that can rival vastly lower pay?

@devonmolina5200 Жыл бұрын

@@leichtgesalzener-kabeljaurogge Healthcare, job security, a secure way of making sure your money is sent to your next-of-kin if you die, education for you and your family, etc. Being a mercenary means you're on your own when it comes to protecting yourself.

@hughle9913 Жыл бұрын

@@devonmolina5200 You're compensated for that tho. I'd imagine the private sector would be willing to cover health and life insurance. As for education...A fat pay-cheque helps with that as well. And let's not act like working for the military makes you a saint either.

@Cjoudan Жыл бұрын

@@leichtgesalzener-kabeljaurogge mercenaries work (depending on company) can just throw you into the worst scenarios and let you die. The military has more resources like para-rescue. As not sure how protected you are in the case of war crimes.

@daddysempaichan Жыл бұрын

@@devonmolina5200 Not to mention the backing and support of the US armed forces. You ain't getting shit like Air, Artillery, Naval, or Armored Support from the US unless your bosses worked it out before hand.

@kfizzle5086 Жыл бұрын

It's like travel nursing, but for the military

@jonathany1240 Жыл бұрын

it’s just the work is healing in reverse

@radioxilent3232 Жыл бұрын

@@jonathany1240 the traveling harmacist

@kubobetterrelax7435 Жыл бұрын

@@radioxilent3232 😂😂

@treytraylor7078 Жыл бұрын

Unhealthcare

@Will_0001 Жыл бұрын

And as a mercenary you get to send more patients to the travel nurses. So it's win win.

@pontiusporcius8430 Жыл бұрын

Imagine if there was a group who contracted out top-level players to competitive teams like this for e-sports leagues.

@leongotget4157 Жыл бұрын

esports teams are already private entities, the groups contracting out high-level players are the competitive teams

@pikachubailarin Жыл бұрын

theres movies about that

@pontiusporcius8430 Жыл бұрын

@@pikachubailarin Which ones?

@justsaying6341 Жыл бұрын

how did you go from mercenaries to e-sports, lmao?

@sentane8031 Жыл бұрын

E-Mercs

@VitaeLibra Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched it yet but if this is about what I think then I have a related story. I overheard someone share how his buddy was in... I think it was something along the royal guard or some insanely wleite force. Anyways his buddy had been in a warzone and was out on a mission with some mercenaries for some reason. He asked them about pay and they got like 5-10 times as much despite having no experience what so ever

@skyumi6154 Жыл бұрын

It's always been more lucrative, no one is going to pay you to fight for your country, they will only keep you alive outside of combat. Mercenaries are a needed boost to what you don't already have in human resources. Human resources are always one of the most expensive premiums to gain outside of standard influx, especially on demand. It's kinda uniquely self-fulfilling in terms of it's worth as a job. At least while we still think the best way to draw lines on maps is with bullets.

@StarstormHUN Жыл бұрын

@@skyumi6154 Continuing that last thought: So long as we think that lines *need* to be drawn on maps...

@skyumi6154 Жыл бұрын

@@StarstormHUN Thank you for adding this, missed that originally. Let's just be the World, or Earth. Please? Everyone?

@merma9042 Жыл бұрын

@@skyumi6154 Exactly. Then work can begin on Earth 2 the sequel.

@redbrush200 Жыл бұрын

That's straight bullshit, because all PMC groups REQUIRE a security license, and some minimum experience.

@samwill7259 Жыл бұрын

A man's soul is valuable, just depends who you're willing to sell it too, and how much you think your humanity is worth

@christophermarkee5445 Жыл бұрын

Honestly a soul is not worth that much since people find it so easy to take them and for $250,000 hell I would annihilate a city for that if it meant making my life a little easier.

@horowitz8680 Жыл бұрын

@@christophermarkee5445 what the fuck.

@popopop984 Жыл бұрын

@@christophermarkee5445 I don’t believe you would, otherwise you would already be working some big job or company that gets you that much every year through hard work. Or you’re the lazy type.

@ember3579 Жыл бұрын

Part of the problem is that dignity doesn't have a calorie count and bills need paid, and precious few jobs have civilian equivalent training of any kind that'd be accepted. You can be high and mighty where you are, but a depressingly large number of people are having to choose between being a merc and being homeless because Uncle Sam don't give a fuck after EAS.

@christophermarkee5445 Жыл бұрын

@@popopop984 nope not lazy just don't mind doing what it takes for personal interest since no one else will look out for mine $250,000 personal comfort and enrichment is worth my soul for what time I have on Earth.

@Emogeta Жыл бұрын

We're making the mother of all omelettes, Jack.

@ironboy3245 Жыл бұрын

Can't fret over every egg

@AverageEnjoyer265 Жыл бұрын

You see Jack, no matter what you do, you will never be based!

@BobbinRobbin777 Жыл бұрын

”We really were a Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Jack…”

@N1GHTSTRIKER-45 Жыл бұрын

It's reveangeance time jack

@JaredBallou Жыл бұрын

In the absence of military training, most PMCs will also hire if the candidate is at least platinum ranked in R6 Siege.

@Stag_DC Жыл бұрын

My father used to work as a contractor. He described it in his own words: “Most of the time it was the most boring shit ever. Climb to 20,000 meters, and watch a tiny village. 1:24AM: terrorist walks out of building to piss. 1:25AM: terrorist walks back inside building. Imagine that, but every night for 2 months straight.” Edit: To clear it up. He was a contracted pilot, not a contracted soldier. 20,000 (or 20.000) meters is accurate. He flew during operation inherent resolve with the US Air Force as a contracted pilot

@water1374 Жыл бұрын

Most other jobs I can land will probably be even more boring but with the added bonus of not getting paid as much and doing it every night until I'm 75.

@legaroojack1251 Жыл бұрын

I don't mind if it's boring, so long as it pays well.

@HailAzathoth Жыл бұрын

20,000 meters huh?

@handson4580 Жыл бұрын

sounds like regular military but with vary high pay

@howtomundane3109 Жыл бұрын

@@HailAzathoth Or it's 20.000 metres, depends on how you measure 20m. (in my countries we use a "," to seperate decimals, and "." to separate ×1000 factors)

@bobbywasabi8014 Жыл бұрын

Now THIS is some quality content

@jonhenson5450 Жыл бұрын

So what is the best PMC for American citizens?

@ooffilipinopatriot7605 Жыл бұрын

@@jonhenson5450 either the now xe services/academi the former black water company, or their competitor the SOC.

@greyroof3120 Жыл бұрын

One major thing is pmc's being flexible due to the detachment from the birocracy of the chain of command. If something is needed to be done immideatly then instead of going trough the chain of command you can thell the pmc to do it.

@daytradersanonymous9955 10 ай бұрын

That's still a chain of command😂

@greyroof3120 9 ай бұрын

@@daytradersanonymous9955Technically yes but it's a lot shorter and a lot more direct

@HipsterKhan Жыл бұрын

Oh hey! I’m in the US Infantry and was wondering about this very thing after seeing my last paycheck lol

@cerickson017 Жыл бұрын

11B detected

@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 Жыл бұрын

I heard the French Foreign Legion is always hiring 😳😳😳

@ryantreptow6414 Жыл бұрын

@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 But they pay like shit though

@chaveztyndale8468 Жыл бұрын

@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 Travel across the world to go fight for France? France??? And they torture me too? No thanks. There is not a single benefit in that option for me personally.

@Kanivalos80 Жыл бұрын

@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 to get even less than Murican infantry ahahah

@braydenblomquist7624 Жыл бұрын

I love how professional this is but also how unprofessional it is

@abtl1154 Жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

@genoob5843 24 күн бұрын

Is it because of the tts?

@LemonWithASideOfLemons Жыл бұрын

Merc work will never stop. Geneva convention be damned.

@thecookiemeister5374 Жыл бұрын

Geneva? We're pirates, we don't even know where that is!

@MonsieurTrinity Жыл бұрын

@@thecookiemeister5374 Filth! You will pay for your insolence!

@tibbs3112 Жыл бұрын

@@thecookiemeister5374 this reference cloned for the war effort.

@morgatron4639 Жыл бұрын

Geneva convention, Geneva suggestions...

@Joe-gw9wh Жыл бұрын

@@morgatron4639 Nissour square massacre smassacre

@Name1person Жыл бұрын

“Professionals have standards”

@jaywerner8415 Жыл бұрын

You would think so, suppose thats why they have such a high price tag.

@LucasSantos-si4nd Жыл бұрын

*_"BE POLITE, BE EFFICIENT, HAVE A PLAN TO KILL EVERYONE YOU MEET"_*

@krsmanjovanovic8607 Жыл бұрын

''Dad, dad I am not crazed gun man, I am an assasin! Wh...what..whats the difference? one is a job and other is a mental sicknes!''

@LucasSantos-si4nd Жыл бұрын

@@krsmanjovanovic8607 "My parents, do not care for me"

@srfelipe6044 Жыл бұрын

Well, as a med student this might be a option. There is always demand to have someone that fix as well as hurt. Better than drown in debt

@honkhonk8009 Жыл бұрын

You do realize that its not only the military that does contract work right? Government agencies and private sector in general litterally run on contract work. My dads a contractor as a consultant for software engineering. Makes $75 an hour. idk much about the medicine industry, but I feel like theres alot of contracting work out there too. Even then though, since your college educated, you can prolly easily go into the military and skip alot of shit. I know alot of people with physics degrees and stuff instantly get into flight school to be a pilot for the air force, or to be some radar technician.

@bunk95 6 ай бұрын

Medical student? Those are fictional. Didn’t you learn how to market human slaves and their behavior in elementary school?

@TheFuri0uswc Жыл бұрын

Now I want to join Atlas Corporation

@TheEmperorHyperion Жыл бұрын

"What you're seeing is _Advanced Warfare."_

@MonsieurTrinity Жыл бұрын

Where's ma boy Gideon

@kaelanirevyruun1676 Жыл бұрын

I’d rather join Sentinel xD

@TheFuri0uswc Жыл бұрын

@@kaelanirevyruun1676 enjoy your 70k a years. Irons treat us well.

@dryfox11 Жыл бұрын

“It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon…. for *TWELVE SECONDS*” *tf2 music*

@danieldancza6171 Жыл бұрын

A fun fact for the history segment: Hungarian king Hunyadi Mátyás (AKA Matthias Corvinus) actually had an army made up of mostly mercenaries instead of state troops

@zythlan Жыл бұрын

Sigismund...

@Guilherme-it6rc Жыл бұрын

@@zythlan Cuman bastards.....

@JoeRogansForehead 5 ай бұрын

So did a lot of armies including Rome towards their finally years

@LT.PLISKIN Жыл бұрын

Time to join Outer Heaven

@morphomirtihotevski563 Жыл бұрын

"In the new age, armies won`t be tied to states, and war will become business" - Kaz. Long live MSF

@DepressedCrow Жыл бұрын

Don't join _create_

@Quacktical Жыл бұрын

Very cool instructions, I’ve constructed a oil rig in the Seychelles and started doing operations in Afghanistan.

@farhanzaman436 Жыл бұрын

I understood that reference

@stallingset7301 Жыл бұрын

God dammit! I was going to make a security/mercenary business, now he pulls out a tutorial for it.

@marianoclerici3986 Жыл бұрын

Isn't this good for your business?

@giantdad1661 Жыл бұрын

@@marianoclerici3986 More competition.

@vyros.3234 Жыл бұрын

Something to include when you state hos much US soldiers are payed. They are not paying for things the average person pays for. The military provides housing for them and their family, pays medical and dental bills, pays for food. And those are just the most important things. So if you calculate what the average American spends on those and then add that to the soldiers salary. That's their true pay.

@williamchamberlain2263 Жыл бұрын

Also, I've heard, some of the benefits persist after leaving the forces.

@tacticaltoaster5777 Жыл бұрын

@@williamchamberlain2263 Yep, some do, and there's the possibility you and your family gets other benefits depending on circumstances of your retirement or if you die during service. VA will cover education expenses for vets and if you get out with a 100% disability rating than dependents can also recieve a monthly stipend during any education after high-school. Some states even waive tuition and necessary fees for public colleges and universities. Only issue is that the actual VA circuits for assisting vets after service aren't great in many places and covid placed heavy strain on available resources for vets in regards to mental and physical treatment. Things the government can easily just pay for they'll do, but anything else is pretty lackluster unless you live in the right place.

@honkhonk8009 Жыл бұрын

Average discretionairy income in the US is $20,783 a year. Basically the same yeah. Surprisingly double that for officers and such. Deadass could pay off your mortgage in 12 years.

@adhrb7207 Жыл бұрын

The thing is my friend, these are benefits that come with the job, eventually all these soldiers will retire, or leave. When they leave, they lose all those benefits and are only left with the time they spent solely honing their skills as soldiers and having to live with less money than if they worked a simpler job for the time they spent. Essentially, being a soldier lacks financial liquidity, and quitting is literally the opposite of "cashing in".

@EternalDawn Жыл бұрын

Cops get medical dental etc and make over 60k a year without getting deployed halfway round the world and have 9-5 type shifts instead of 24/7

@thatdude9588 Жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see such a large news organization such as sir swag to shout out the little guys like ground news

@rumpunched6277 Жыл бұрын

As the great Sundowner said, "Give war a chance!."

@youraveragechroma2139 Жыл бұрын

How else will an honest warmonger make a living. When the sun sets, we will not forget, the red sun over paradise!

@derkurier2710 Жыл бұрын

"Like the good ol´ days after 9-11."

@Killacam1992 Жыл бұрын

I dated a girl whose dad was a 3 star general… “officially” their salary sais one thing but their net worth sais another… they’re all millionaires

@God-ld6ll Жыл бұрын

time to switch majors. Which college has those courses?

@futuremoe Жыл бұрын

I know that videos like this aren't easy to make, props!!

@jeremyp5210 Жыл бұрын

You should interview a real PMC

@Scott.E.H Жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Can't believe it's less than 20 minutes long, it feels like so much information as crammed in there

@coful Жыл бұрын

Ay I've been using ground news for a few months already and I'm really happy you guys got sponsored by them. It really is all it's hyped up to be.

@notleviathan855 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, the only real difference is that you probably need past military experience to get into the private sector. Or be willing to pass their fitness test, and then learn how to operate systems. A vast majority of mercenary work isn't combat, it's patrols, and downtime. If you can make something out of nothing, then you'd be a great fit. Hell, there are also non-combat roles for mercenarys too if you don't want to shoot at people. Keep in mind you'll be working with people you don't know, and probably can't trust. It's why I don't want to become a merc despite all the benefits. If I can't trust my co-workers not to quit on me in a warzone, then I'm not doing it. The pay is great, but considering a majority of the time you won't be fighting. It won't exactly be what you signed up for. I've looked into that line of work, and honestly thinking about it I have no real issues with killing people for money as long as they aren't small children. Issue is, I can't fully trust my teammates.

@SackOfGypsies Жыл бұрын

seek therapy schizo

@davidkenway4862 Жыл бұрын

real military is also extremely boring so that isn't much of a deterrent but yeah the trust issue would be a huge push towards not doing it

@justinv.9784 Жыл бұрын

Same thing for the military you can’t trust people who aren’t competent in what they do lol

@tonyjones1560 Жыл бұрын

That realization tipped the scales to keep me out of Bosnia back in the 1990s…and now, alas, I’m too old and busted up to run and gun.

@notleviathan855 Жыл бұрын

@@tonyjones1560 Could always try and get into non-combat related roles. Granted, if you're experience in the military was strictly combat related such as infantry, you might be out of luck. However, going to school for logistics is never too late. They pay mad stacks of cash for logistics people..

@jacobnelan383 Жыл бұрын

17:12 this is the plot of COD: Advanced Warfare

@TheEmperorHyperion Жыл бұрын

So what you're saying is _what we're seeing is Advanced Warfare._

@prodrom Жыл бұрын

[tutorial] [not clickbait]

@YoBoyNeptune Жыл бұрын

As a person who played Metal gear rising once I'm very familiar with PMCs

@BL4CK-L1ST Жыл бұрын

Glad to see a channel taking as much interest in the mercenary profession as I do. There’s just something so interesting about mercenaries, individuals who are so badass in combat that people pay top dollar for their combat prowess.

@sdunned7842 Жыл бұрын

The guys in the movie "13 hours" were mostly mercenaries. Food for thought.

@jonharrison3114 Жыл бұрын

Now we got US private sectors training the Chinese.

@vyros.3234 Жыл бұрын

Without Uncle Sam's consent. Those small PMC companies can expect to never receive a contract from the US now.

@JamesBongo Жыл бұрын

"I hate the anti-christ" "I hate the anti-christ" "I hate the anti-christ" ....one year later..... 250,000 a year? Sign me up for the anti-christs task Force!

@w3ss3x Жыл бұрын

The virgin UN blue helmets vs the chad 250k annum PMC

@honkhonk8009 Жыл бұрын

Ironically, most western PMC's have done more good samartin work and more good for the world, than the UN blue helmets would have ever hoped to do.

@JamesBongo Жыл бұрын

@@honkhonk8009 like what?

@w3ss3x Жыл бұрын

@@JamesBongo like killing orphans

@MrLastlived Жыл бұрын

@@w3ss3x They ain't orphans anymore, now their just bodies!

@graysutherlin7568 11 ай бұрын

9:38 it's actually amazing how much pain the Army can put you through while still leaving you out of shape. The advice mercenary's given me is to enlist as a combat medic. PMC's usually want SOF vets, but medical training will get you a job easy.

@Cadigan1 Жыл бұрын

A great video, especially the parts talking about legalities and why mercenaries are used.

@Fuzato15 Жыл бұрын

Remember. Mercs are not protected by the geneva convention.

@fitmotheyap Жыл бұрын

They don't care about it 🕶 time to find "special" weapons

@andresmartinezramos7513 Жыл бұрын

Mercs should get the firing squad

@howtomundane3109 Жыл бұрын

But can still be convincted of warcrimes.

@Fuzato15 Жыл бұрын

@@fitmotheyap woud care if captured

@derkurier2710 Жыл бұрын

@@andresmartinezramos7513 Why? because they fight for the better pay instead of the US Flag?

@adriankunz3395 11 ай бұрын

Most mercenaries are ex special forces, I doubt someone without special operations experience would do well as a mercenary.

@03BangBang Жыл бұрын

I love how this video comes out almost ten years after grunts stopped consistent combat deployments

@djdyls3101 Жыл бұрын

Ferb I know what we are gonna do today *tf2 theme intensifies*

@jfkst1 Жыл бұрын

Most private contracting is in a race to the bottom now. Pay rates are about half what they used to be.

@DepressedCrow Жыл бұрын

Most merc work is just standing there and looking tough

@wmoidl Жыл бұрын

If from a less action oriented branch of the military, another option to make this amount is to join the UN and do security work. Lot less dangerous from military action perspective, but can be dangerously boring and likely engages you in tons of pointless paperwork…. As always, good content, cudos to the Swag team. I however would have really liked to have a mention of EO and Sandline included, as these were significant actors at their times Especially EO set an impressive point of what a well trained and organised unit could do for a government with a small number of personnel and essentially one impressive piece of hardware. Just saying…. That brings in the aspect that not only the Cold War (and the end of it) had significant influence on PMCs rising, but also the end of apartheid in SA.

@bobafett979 Жыл бұрын

EO as an Equal Opportunity?

@wmoidl Жыл бұрын

@@bobafett979 Executive Outcomes, as in the private military company

@bobafett979 Жыл бұрын

@@wmoidl gotta teach me what the different PMCs are, it’s an industry I want to get into. Unfortunately I’m in a POG MOS in the Army…

@TomSarh Жыл бұрын

Next video : How to earn $500000 as a drug lord

@genoob5843 24 күн бұрын

BrBa theme intensifies

@nameredacted1176 6 ай бұрын

Contracted for years. Never any “big name” PMC’s but I finally retired from Gladius International (formerly Leviathan Group) in January of 2021. Good money, better stories and never a dull moment. What a life. I genuinely enjoyed this video. Well, set aside that robot explaining everything.

@abdalrahman1651 5 ай бұрын

what are some of your more interesting storys?

@NerdySatyr Жыл бұрын

YOU GUYS GOT MORE SPONSORS! Heck yeah!! Get that bread

@bowertobias Жыл бұрын

Man trying to found the apex predators

@nicks7434 Жыл бұрын

My friend is PMC he was 11b in the army. He got a general discharge. He speaks Serbian, Russian, and English. He worked mostly in Ukraine training people since 2014. There are lots of PMC jobs for people who speak multiple languages fluently. Most of his coworkers are x special forces, but they only speak English. He was not special forces, but was chosen over other people because of his language skills. Also another acquaintance was a PMC but he was a construction worker in Iraq and never even touched a gun. They say green berets learn a language, but most of my buddies coworkers were green berets or navy seals but none of them know any other language but English.

@bunk95 6 ай бұрын

Armies and militaries are fictional. Humans market slaves as part if armies/militaries.

@MindBlowerWTF 5 ай бұрын

How can you leave school after 2000 and only know one language?

@Hugo_Golden Жыл бұрын

I have a first class honours in chemistry and I’m looking at this more realistically as a job opportunity I’d want to explore because of the pay check lol… i guess that’s saying… something… I guess

@Winasaurus Жыл бұрын

Chemistry isn't in big demand for PMC's really. They're more war, less meth. If you were more medical you'd be an option.

@KommandantGSR Жыл бұрын

mercenary buffs: You're in military You're Paid Mercenary debuffs: The fucking Geneva Convention CANNOT HELP YOU

@howtomundane3109 Жыл бұрын

But it can still put you in prison for the next 20 years

@KommandantGSR Жыл бұрын

@@howtomundane3109 facts, if only the people that created those rules follows them

@bishoptrees Жыл бұрын

Thanks swag, good shit. Would love to see some more like this. Dig deeper :)

@skylarschell7858 Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful way to start off my Tuesday.

@Nev1812 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful way to start my Wednesday

@jones5kogames Жыл бұрын

This is what I’ve been searching for for a while

@stallingset7301 Жыл бұрын

A tutorial

@antoniocollazo5848 Жыл бұрын

Now… I have a dream.

@giovannipaiola1066 Жыл бұрын

Immagine being a powerful mercenary just to get deleted by a single man with a robot

@weedmantrudeau5783 Жыл бұрын

like the knight and the crossbow

@naenaemister5048 Жыл бұрын

just to give a reason why the pay difference is so high is because the military covers nearly everything else for you health care housing and other stuff but it’s still too high

@avoadrian1402 Жыл бұрын

great script dude and editing, it was funny and kept me captivated the whole time

@Smuggerino Жыл бұрын

0:28 I'm dying of laughter when I easily realized that the videos in the background are the mission briefings from Modern Warfare Remastered (Crew Expendable, The Bog, The Coup)

@troybradshaw8781 Жыл бұрын

Anyone interested needs to understand that doing light PMC jobs like convoy security or fixed position work is ideal, but if things go south, you can be classified as a spy and executed in some area's

@jagd7102 Жыл бұрын

Sir Swag guides have come a long way haven't they.

@shaithomas5089 Жыл бұрын

what a great video, I always wanted to become a mercenary, and got accepted to join one for example the Ukraine SSO Spetsnaz with an offer of $10,000cad before the recruiter got injured in the first war, and was accepted for work in Australia for a 1-year work permit in the army, I am Canadian with only air cadets background, but I demonstrated too much knowledge and spoken a lot of different language's. and explained I run a Militia of my own in case of a war, but now most of us have charges. but I'm still accepted in my CAF as a combat engineer officer. with a plan set for CBRN. :)

@LokiBeckonswow Жыл бұрын

epic content Swag, much appreciated, v v interesting

@JustCallMeJonPLZ Жыл бұрын

4:45 got me sayin' "Like the good old days after 9/11!"

@blitzkrieg2003 Жыл бұрын

Solid video swag team!

@modislavcz4759 Жыл бұрын

Seeing Rattenschwanz as the background footage made my Czech heart proud :)

@bigbadlara5304 Жыл бұрын

OK I'm going to be a mercenary

@howtomundane3109 Жыл бұрын

*TF2 music plays*

@thegreycrusader Жыл бұрын

Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters are the coolest

@angryzombie8088 Жыл бұрын

Such elegance, using Genshin Impact characters as an example for PMC, Subscribed! After watching this, I realized that Pest Control services are also PMC in Humanity's war against pest species.

@DlSappeared Жыл бұрын

probably the ONLY time a sponsor catch more of my attention than the video.

@2MeterLP Жыл бұрын

Wait, the first mercenary group was founded by Sterling and Woodhouse? Is that what the spy agency in Archer is based on?

@tomwaits9027 Жыл бұрын

i believe that would be the nubians but there was a fine line between slavery and mercenary work back in ye olden times.

@Drekromancer Жыл бұрын

@@tomwaits9027 "All right, folks! First soldier to get a kill gets to eat this week!"

@FeistyST Жыл бұрын

After getting out of the United States Army and serving as a military police officer, I highly consider doing this, and had many chances and opportunities. But I figured it was best to try to branch out and do something else, so that’s what I did found a new career path probably for the best to.

@kevin-rx3hv 11 ай бұрын

how much u think ukrainian foreign legion are paid

@FeistyST 11 ай бұрын

@@kevin-rx3hv wouldn’t even want to assume

@kevin-rx3hv 11 ай бұрын

@@FeistyST u think its a lot? i heard estimates up to 30k a month

@FeistyST 11 ай бұрын

@@kevin-rx3hv I would hope so, they deserve it.

@erichrandomstranger1243 Жыл бұрын

This is a nice back up plan in case that career I want doesn't pan-out.

@jimmycumbest6877 Жыл бұрын

Love your video swag and now I'm on a list

@honkhonk8009 Жыл бұрын

To be absolutely fair, that $20k and $40k salary is actually really good. You get housing, food, recreation, and basically everything accounted for. You end up with $20k in discretionairy income every year. Thats only $700 below the national average in the US. $250k only sounds good because your basically going into the military, but with zero rights since your a mercenary, zero support infrastructure, and you gotta pay for alot of shit yourself

@theonlineanimal6009 7 ай бұрын

20k a year is very low pay. Most people are making 40-50k yearly.

@MindBlowerWTF 5 ай бұрын

@@theonlineanimal6009 he literally explained why he thinks that 20k in military equals to 50k outside of it.

@joeyvicidomini9546 Жыл бұрын

Finally a useful tutorial

@daweedabest2085 11 ай бұрын

If there’s something from titan fall and cod that I’ve learned is that PMCs will always have the cooler stuff

@giuseppenasca2091 Жыл бұрын

This is just the beginning of Sir Swag's villan arc

@fabiospasiano9885 Жыл бұрын

Instructions unclear: joined a PMC group and now I am forced to salute and yell “BOSS” every time I see a man with a missing arm or an eyepatch.

@yvespenaflor4610 Жыл бұрын

To become a mercenary you need to be a former spec ops with experience. Lol

@AlpineBishop Жыл бұрын

This video covered the real life inspirations and moral dilemma portrayed by Advanced Warfare

@Chinunit22 Жыл бұрын

Just like my commander in my Army unit said, if you can survive, money sure will be great.

@ourtube4266 Жыл бұрын

Nothing you said about army pay was technically wrong but a little clarification from a former soldier. A private fresh from basic gets promoted 3 times in less than 2 years and makes quite a bit more than 20k with those automatic promotions to PV2 pfc and specialist. A decent soldier can become a sergeant in 4 years, some sooner, some later. Also by the time you are a sergeant you will be moving out of the barracks soon and getting a monthly living stipend called BAH that is calculated based on rank, registered dependents and location of your duty station. This money is tax free and can be quite substantial. Obviously contractors will make more, and no soldier is getting rich, but it’s still a good living and requires no prior experience. Not a recruiter, just doing my best to let young people see the benefits of military service since it gets a bad rap.

@merma9042 Жыл бұрын

I'm a high schooler. I've thought about joining a couple times, but I probably won't. But I'd like to ask is it fun in the military? Also is it worth the time? What type of skills do you learn there?

@ourtube4266 Жыл бұрын

@@merma9042 I joined the reserves when I was 18. It was perfect for me because I was ready to leave home but not quite mature enough to be an adult on my own yet. The reserves/national guard allow you to serve part time and go to school or otherwise live your life (look this up on your own to learn the details), but I did find that it got in the way of things I wanted to do sometimes. I deployed once in 2018 for 9 months and made a good amount of money that allowed me to graduate college debt free and with about 40k in the bank although I was 2-3 years later than my peers to do this. As for skills, it depends what job you do but basic army skills are: organization, fitness, the best firearms training in America, driving (sometimes big trucks a civilian would need a CDL for), work ethic and plenty more. I’d recommend it for someone who knows what they want to do in life but doesn’t have a detailed plan to get there. The army won’t fix a lazy fuckup but it will give confidence and direction to someone who grew up without lots of motivation or purpose. Oh and it certainly was fun, even when it sucks worse than anything you’d ever see on the civilian side, you have buddies who are right there with you dealing with the same thing. That builds lifetime bonds in very short time because of the intensity of the experience. Hope that answers your questions.

@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213 Жыл бұрын

"Not a recruiter, just shilling away for my government to trap young men in a job where they get rewarded with a wooden box and a flag over it on their flight home!"

@pussygetter4465 Жыл бұрын

@@merma9042 definitely a recruiter my man

@alexandernewman9735 Жыл бұрын

@@ourtube4266 Only way to make it worth the bs is to go airborne. After your first half-decade active or so everything besides jumping out of aircraft gets boring as hell.

@Bloodworia Жыл бұрын

Content i like out of nowhere? Nice.

@KingTiger10588 Жыл бұрын

this was actually well done

@Ibetalkinvidyagames 5 ай бұрын

This is a lot more about the history and intervention about mercs and pmcs than it is about getting a career as one.

@SquashGuy02134 Жыл бұрын

I like how some onlyfans models would be fully caple of having their own private armies

@MajinMist603 Жыл бұрын

I played TFC and TF2 for 12 years now ……. I think I can handle being a Merc .

@pepper5128 Жыл бұрын

Lol I never expected this from the "this weeks news without the bs" guy. I've been interested in this line of work for a while now though, so I'm happy :)