Blackwater: Portrait of an American PMC

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Warographics

Warographics

2 ай бұрын

Explore the complex history of Blackwater, America’s controversial PMC, from its dark past to its current role as Constellis Holdings. Uncover the evolution of this influential organization on Warographics.
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@JoseTorres-ry9qe
@JoseTorres-ry9qe 2 ай бұрын
Blackwater vs Wagner would make a AAA boxoffice game
@oldworldpatriot8920
@oldworldpatriot8920 2 ай бұрын
Wagner recruits prisoners and civilians,Blackwater only reaches out to those that have notable marks in actual military service history,most of the nerve in Iraq were veterans of the Gulf War 10 years prior or Afghanistan vets. They don’t consider anyone else,Wagner will sign anyone that walks in the door.
@iliketurtles4463
@iliketurtles4463 2 ай бұрын
You want Squad, and its Global Escalation mod... Check it out.
@jamalwilburn228
@jamalwilburn228 2 ай бұрын
It's Shadow Company and Konni Group
@jackhammertwo1
@jackhammertwo1 2 ай бұрын
Blackwater already has a videogame... And is a complete rail shooter.
@effectiveways2048
@effectiveways2048 2 ай бұрын
@@oldworldpatriot8920Kind of-Wagner has (what has become a relatively small) portion of professionally-trained soldiers who performed better than the Russian regular army. Since the pay, training and equipment was higher-quality in Wagner, that’s where a lot of Russian soldiers chose to go. Then under them are the regular Russian army, and under them, the sea of disposable fighters Wagner pulled out of prisons and blessed with a 40% survival rate
@Mrmilkman-yb3ql
@Mrmilkman-yb3ql 2 ай бұрын
Only Dutch knows what really happened in blackwater
@sumcanadianperson7145
@sumcanadianperson7145 2 ай бұрын
Brilliant.
@jameshuman1753
@jameshuman1753 2 ай бұрын
Hahaha best game 6 years later
@vfxjess
@vfxjess 2 ай бұрын
We need the money
@Rello84
@Rello84 2 ай бұрын
mangos
@winnipegconcertfootage3958
@winnipegconcertfootage3958 2 ай бұрын
HAVE SOME GOD DAMN FAITTHHHHHH
@stonaraptor8196
@stonaraptor8196 2 ай бұрын
They were named after the black water surrounding their first swamp-base? That's some straight up Metal Gear Solid stuff damn
@timwinterhalter5233
@timwinterhalter5233 Ай бұрын
one of those fact and fiction blending together moments
@kcthenerd6581
@kcthenerd6581 21 күн бұрын
MGS was entirely inspired by pmc’s like blackwater as a franchise/story. Nothing surprising there.
@ChrisAnilao
@ChrisAnilao 15 күн бұрын
Whether its inspired by the dark swamp water around their base or whatever, naming your organization after literal shit water has always made me wonder what they were thinking.
@johngillespie3409
@johngillespie3409 11 күн бұрын
​@ChrisAnilao Prince was a seal, so he'd be in the swamp water a lot, get a life
@poopp8693
@poopp8693 5 күн бұрын
@@johngillespie3409zip up his pants when your done. he don’t know you exist lil bro
@WarlockInTraining
@WarlockInTraining 2 ай бұрын
When I join The Navy as a Master At Arms back in 2005, it was this PMC that trained us in Law Enforcement defense techniques and Fire Arms. Crazy looking back now.
@geordiejones5618
@geordiejones5618 2 ай бұрын
The USG has outsourced just about every aspect of empire from the public sector to the private sector. Eventually you won't be able to tell the difference, and that's when we're all fucked.
@AmonAnon-vw3hr
@AmonAnon-vw3hr 2 ай бұрын
@geordiejones5618 "empire" lol next you'll be saying an old man riding a bicycle down the road rules all roads lol.
@REV-1
@REV-1 2 ай бұрын
⁠​⁠​⁠@@geordiejones5618it’s not “out sourcing”, but I get what you mean….
@thedayzgod
@thedayzgod 2 ай бұрын
ima say with that grammar it didn't happen boss stop lying on the internet
@cuinican1980
@cuinican1980 2 ай бұрын
​@thedayzgod IMA say with that grammar? LMAO WoW, your such a genius
@Arbiter22J
@Arbiter22J 2 ай бұрын
“Ok AI do you know what a gun looks like?” “Yes of course” (Generates a painted nerf gun with random pipes on it)
@nintendoeats
@nintendoeats 2 ай бұрын
Take a look at the box art for the 80s movie Platoon Leader if you want a real laugh at a gun...
@McWerp
@McWerp 2 ай бұрын
I wish Simon would stop it. Makes every video worse...
@ThroneOfBhaal
@ThroneOfBhaal 2 ай бұрын
The AI "Art" is the only thing I hate around here. It looks bloody awful.
@GageEsterly-us7xm
@GageEsterly-us7xm 2 ай бұрын
It's not even a nerf gun, it's a Sawzall
@jenaf4208
@jenaf4208 2 ай бұрын
As a non-american those guns look real enough to me lol.
@MisterPlanePilot
@MisterPlanePilot 2 ай бұрын
Dude, Simon, your editors seriously need to stop with the AI generated images and the blatant typos that could be fixed with simple revision. You're a highly successful multi-channel youtuber, this is getting worse week by week.
@frakismaximus3052
@frakismaximus3052 2 ай бұрын
Simon is actually just a private contractor 😉
@andersjjensen
@andersjjensen 2 ай бұрын
Make no mistake: This the entire Simonverse is shallow as hell. A mile wide but only an inch deep. They've published episodes on matters I'm deeply familiar with and they were shock full of errors. So, by induction, I expect them to be as bad with matters I'm less familiar with. This is mass media "infotainment". Nothing more. Expect exactly the same quality of journalism as you do of other tabloid media. Quote nothing, from here, before thoroughly looking into it yourself.
@zackanderson7440
@zackanderson7440 2 ай бұрын
@@andersjjensen Do you have any examples?
@dogsbecute
@dogsbecute 2 ай бұрын
@@zackanderson7440 off the top of my head, doing things like showing the f14 when talking about the f16. the f16 has nothing in common with it. alternatively, showing the f22 when talking about the f35. but alas, no one should be watching these videos as their primary source of information. Its entertainment.
@dogsbecute
@dogsbecute 2 ай бұрын
@@zackanderson7440 Also, as the most egregious and relevant example, having that terrible AI art on the thumbnail is incredibly misleading. First of all, those guns dont even exist. Secondly, whatever theyre showing is most certainly not a Blackwater PMC. They arent even using Western gear. Their helmets highly resemble the russian infantry Ratnik helmet, which Wagner doesnt even wear. Theyre garbage. Theres not even any mounts for nods. The AI literally couldnt be bothered. No PMC is going to be out there with iron sights on their rifles and a ceramic bowl for a helmet. Not to mention, on those guns, the upper receiver looks like it belongs on a bullpup. The lower looks like a fucking ak12. Blackwater doesnt use the Ak12!
@calebbearup4282
@calebbearup4282 2 ай бұрын
I think it's important too keep in mind that at this time regular soldiers were under orders that if ANY vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint they were to open fire until the vehicle stops moving By the END of my deployment in 2005 that order was changed to verbal warning, warning shot, then shoot to kill. So any claims that blackwater members "opened fire" on vehicles failing to stop I always assume they were following orders from all the way up
@elizabetherne556
@elizabetherne556 2 ай бұрын
Honestly, for that, I’d say they were following orders. And the other corruption over money, somebody in the military was helping them over bill. The military will always make sure they aren’t considered part of it. Even Russia did it with Wagner. But I also have family that were in the military for decades so I know the military isn’t as innocent as they claim.
@perceivedvelocity9914
@perceivedvelocity9914 2 ай бұрын
​@@elizabetherne556The military follows the chain of command. They do what they are told. Elected politicians are the people who call the shots. Democrats and Republicans are directly responsible for the things that people criticize the military for.
@noth606
@noth606 2 ай бұрын
I wouldn't put much effort into explaining this kind of things to people with no operational background, I've tried many times and most of the time it was just wasted effort. Ignorant people automatically think that when shots were fired, it was the first event in the sequence, they don't understand that there are stages to things where you start 'low' and escalate until compliance is achieved, one way or the other.
@slayer40sw
@slayer40sw 2 ай бұрын
Let's not forget those people drive like there's no traffic laws and they have to rush home to shit🙄
@pr3historic647
@pr3historic647 14 күн бұрын
If you're talking about nisour square that's just not relevant? It wasn't a checkpoint. It was a convoy halting traffic. It definitely didn't meet ROE. Additionally, what about the other 20 people that were wounded and 14 that were killed? These people don't meet ROE even with your stipulation. This is so cut and dry bruv. It gets even worse from them not following direction from hireups that we have the transcripts of. So no it did not come from all the way up. Are you even tangentially familiar with the incident?
@joshuaescopete
@joshuaescopete 2 ай бұрын
The only Blackwater on my mind is the town where Dutch kept all the money….
@treelobster6137
@treelobster6137 2 ай бұрын
w'at happ'n'd on dat dere boat
@ronald3836
@ronald3836 2 ай бұрын
THe Pinkertons still exist. What happened to Merryweather?
@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658
@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 2 ай бұрын
@@ronald3836 Taketwo Rockstar's owner actually sent the Pinkertons to find GTA modders.
@dominiquewilliams8687
@dominiquewilliams8687 2 ай бұрын
I have a plan
@holyfordus
@holyfordus 2 ай бұрын
*T A H I T I*
@MEXUS.
@MEXUS. 2 ай бұрын
The AI generated thumbnail and the typo looks so funny bro. EDIT: Some of y'all are taking me pointing it out way too seriously lol. I just thought it looked silly.
@GuloYolo
@GuloYolo 2 ай бұрын
It really is a bit off-putting considering their fairly high quality content.
@shadeitplease7383
@shadeitplease7383 2 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s really a mess including spelling happened wrong lol
@AlexanderTheGoodEnough
@AlexanderTheGoodEnough 2 ай бұрын
​@@GuloYoloAI generative content will be the new norm. Watch for the "Real Human" tag in titles in the near future.
@TheoAnon
@TheoAnon 2 ай бұрын
Someone else watches upper echelon​@@AlexanderTheGoodEnough
@alexwest2573
@alexwest2573 2 ай бұрын
I really despise AI thumbnails, like do better lmao
@Killjoy2071
@Killjoy2071 2 ай бұрын
Trained at the Blackwater facility in 2009 in basic LE sniping (I’m a veteran and full time police officer). Fantastic experience; great instructors; one former Canadian Special Forces sniper, one former Phoenix PD sniper, and a US Army special forces sniper. Ranges were well designed and run and the curriculum for a 5 day course was excellent. By the end we were hitting targets out to 1000 yards.
@hunterwilson6703
@hunterwilson6703 2 ай бұрын
The government over reached and did black water dirty. Half the shit they got blamed for was started by us troops.
@looking4themountain
@looking4themountain 2 ай бұрын
Don't think there was a whole lot of concern when it came to training so much as how the company had little oversight. Never-the-less, thank you for your service.
@KingsAirsoftGroup424
@KingsAirsoftGroup424 Ай бұрын
Did you notice how when he went over the land they bought, that he made a geographical error because it’s close but that’s not actually where they’re located. Further south and actually in North Carolina
@PaleoVirus
@PaleoVirus Ай бұрын
I was pleased with my contract, my training, my pay. Much better than when the Eagle shit.
@PaleoVirus
@PaleoVirus Ай бұрын
​@@KingsAirsoftGroup424Correct. 3.6 from my AO. Several mates stayed here in NC.
@kevmoful
@kevmoful 2 ай бұрын
I worked for Eric Prince’s die casting company for some years . When he sold the company he took the profit and doubled everyone’s 401k. Not a bad guy in my book.
@desertshooter007
@desertshooter007 Ай бұрын
That's a good man right there 👏
@sendit2873
@sendit2873 Ай бұрын
yeah he still owes us that worked in the war zones alot of money hundreds of us he is a polesmoker
@nolongerblocked6210
@nolongerblocked6210 Ай бұрын
Horrible people can do kind or generous things occasionally, Saddam Hussain did.. Putin has.. Mao did, still doesn't mean they're not horrible people. Doing something nice for some people does not erase their past behavior
@79sdv10
@79sdv10 Ай бұрын
Hey. You can't stay a warlord long without keeping one's own goons and the media machine happy.
@Jalenlane93
@Jalenlane93 Ай бұрын
He's a pos. He wants to re-colonize Africa.
@ignitionfrn2223
@ignitionfrn2223 2 ай бұрын
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Building blackwater 6:20 - Chapter 2 - Hell in iraq 14:15 - Chapter 3 - A darkening reputation 24:50 - Chapter 4 - A modern american PMC
@robertmaybeth3434
@robertmaybeth3434 2 ай бұрын
thx for this part
@ReySchultz121
@ReySchultz121 2 ай бұрын
At this rate, you're just their official chapters guy.
@goldrogger8009
@goldrogger8009 2 ай бұрын
no ufo stuff? its Sunday and I want a good laugh....im clearly wrong here
@Bluecollarjoe6B9
@Bluecollarjoe6B9 2 ай бұрын
I actually did a driving course on their track while I was with Force Recon.
@johnnysinthecut3114
@johnnysinthecut3114 2 ай бұрын
This how you know we love simon🤣 we all point out his add shucking, bad thumbnails & poor audio quality but still come every video
@JoelFazio
@JoelFazio 2 ай бұрын
I certainly came.
@tylerpowell8525
@tylerpowell8525 2 ай бұрын
​@@JoelFazio( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@luislongoria6621
@luislongoria6621 2 ай бұрын
The Japanese have a word for Mercenaries. No not ninja, Ronin
@Mugdorna
@Mugdorna Ай бұрын
​@luislongoria6621 The meaning of 'ronin' is closer to "vagrant" or "bandit"
@hazonku
@hazonku 2 ай бұрын
I was in Iraq doing the whole frontline infantry, counter insurgency/hearts & minds thing and Blackwater's antics were ALWAYS a pain in the ass for us. Triple Canopy on the other hand were always super professional and you never had to tell them twice to fuck off or get out of your way. The merging of those two companies was a very good thing for all parties.
@Killjoy2071
@Killjoy2071 2 ай бұрын
One of my coworkers was a former Ranger who worked for triple canopy; absolute professional.
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary 2 ай бұрын
Went from grunt to working for TC, good training and good work to be had (though the government sucks right now obviously).
@joshm7225
@joshm7225 2 ай бұрын
Worked for Aegis, TC, and Academi. DOD psd was legit aegis was fun and first to admit BW had alot of antics that hurt all contractors in the early years, was non combat admin guys being dumb.
@sgt_loeram1933
@sgt_loeram1933 2 ай бұрын
During Iraq in 2004-05 we ALL felt above the law. We had 100% immunity from local prosecution. We didn’t feel like we were above the law, we were above the law, right or wrong
@Mvpliberty
@Mvpliberty 2 ай бұрын
Now that’s a hell of a insurance policy
@sgt_loeram1933
@sgt_loeram1933 2 ай бұрын
@@Mvpliberty Brother that power we had over the Iraqi citizens was absolute, sometimes I’m not gonna lie I felt a little like the Nazi’s must have felt occupying countries in Europe. Full disclosure, the power was intoxicating at times. You had to check yourself because no one else was going to.
@Dazzlefisher
@Dazzlefisher 2 ай бұрын
@@sgt_loeram1933yeah so basically you comitted atrocities or know people who have and none of you paid for it. What a hero you are 👍
@sgt_loeram1933
@sgt_loeram1933 2 ай бұрын
@@Dazzlefisher Call it whatever you want I’m just being honest with everyone and mainly myself. That was nearly 20 years ago now have demons I have to live with for the rest of my life. You call our actions atrocities? Nah I wouldn’t say our actions arose to the level of “War Crimes”. It was a different time for everyone, us as well as the Iraqis were just trying to make it home at the end of the day. Anyone who was put in the situation we were after 9/11 just wanted revenge, we all lost quite a bit of our humanity. Especially since this part doesn’t get enough press, but we were forced into Iraq for over a year at a time. Brother I was a sales rep for Milgard Windows 5 months prior to that, imagine suddenly your in Iraq being shot at and IED’s going off daily! Obviously I was a reservist who got snatched up and put on the front lines, I’m not bitter, I knew what I signed up for.
@AeonDaemon
@AeonDaemon 2 ай бұрын
@@Dazzlefisher Those people were animals not even equivalent to squashing a bug who cares
@MM22966
@MM22966 2 ай бұрын
I don't know where that thumbnail came from, but those are not Blackwater PMCs.
@ShopeeMarketteam
@ShopeeMarketteam 2 ай бұрын
They also spelt "happened" wrong
@CoronaKirisame
@CoronaKirisame 2 ай бұрын
It's AI generated
@john-th5yj
@john-th5yj 2 ай бұрын
immediately saw the rifles and thought oh yea a computer made that ..
@MM22966
@MM22966 2 ай бұрын
@@john-th5yj Based on the armor style, I think the AI was actually working off of pics of Wagner. Sigh. We will never see a war of Blackwater vs. Wagner, may the best PMC win....
@chunwong7205
@chunwong7205 2 ай бұрын
​@@john-th5yj I was wondering what kind of rifles those were. Now I know.
@roguesouleater
@roguesouleater 2 ай бұрын
Why the AI thumbnail? Couldn't you just use a pic of Blackwater Personel on Google with a filter and some words slapped on top of it?
@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it
@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it 2 ай бұрын
Depends how likely either Blackwater or whatever they call themselves now are to complain or YT to be dicks. They probably went with horrific AI to avoid any issues.
@roguesouleater
@roguesouleater 2 ай бұрын
@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it Yeah. That could be a reason, but I am not too sure. Plenty of Blackwater critics have written books and done commentary videos using pics of contractors without issue. Even then, any random, stock picture of nondescript soldiers would do fine in getting the point across.
@AmonAnon-vw3hr
@AmonAnon-vw3hr 2 ай бұрын
Pictures of blackwater PMCs look too cool. They wanted them to look ominous and evil.
@Brandon.M.Broyles
@Brandon.M.Broyles Ай бұрын
Why not use a tool to make work easier.... Wise man once told me "Work smart not hard"!
@pitafish
@pitafish 2 ай бұрын
The hands in the thumbnail made me laugh enough to get me to click the video
@SpaceGringos3D
@SpaceGringos3D 25 күн бұрын
BlackWater is now Academi. I worked a few contracts for them. Please Understand that 99.9% of contracts are just static security. Standing in place holding a weapon. Doing absolutely nothing. For months on end…
@BamDeadYT
@BamDeadYT 2 ай бұрын
Anyone calling New Orleans "laid back and safe" have clearly never really visited or lived there. Yes, there are plenty of cool tourist traps there, but wander off the path, and you'll see what the city is really like.
@perceivedvelocity9914
@perceivedvelocity9914 2 ай бұрын
100% correct. Tourists need to stay in tourist areas.
@WOGEOnell
@WOGEOnell 2 ай бұрын
It’s relative. I’m sure to a place like Honduras, or Afghanistan nothing about New Orleans is remotely dangerous
@slartybarfastb3648
@slartybarfastb3648 2 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. Simon has obviously never been to New Orleans. The real New Orleans anyway.
@luislongoria6621
@luislongoria6621 2 ай бұрын
Houston got all the refugees from New Orleans and Texas hasn't been the same since. Reverse immigration, yay!
@BMWE90HQ
@BMWE90HQ 2 ай бұрын
@@slartybarfastb3648bro just made the OPs point.
@grey3247
@grey3247 2 ай бұрын
Stop using AI thumbnails please
@ronald3836
@ronald3836 2 ай бұрын
Looks perfectly fine to me.
@ieditedmyname289
@ieditedmyname289 2 ай бұрын
why?
@Shjeshje
@Shjeshje 2 ай бұрын
​@@ronald3836 you aren't ok
@darlenefraser3022
@darlenefraser3022 2 ай бұрын
Looks fine to me, too
@elce5008
@elce5008 2 ай бұрын
Nah
@Tinyuvm
@Tinyuvm 2 ай бұрын
"Nobody Important died in our care", Erick Prince
@Somnationalist
@Somnationalist 2 ай бұрын
What does he mean?
@T1kr3b3u
@T1kr3b3u 2 ай бұрын
@@PieInSkyGuy Sounds like a cold heartless CEO cutting cost by not hiring enough men for the job to boost the bottom line.
@user-mp9rd4hg8b
@user-mp9rd4hg8b 2 ай бұрын
Yeah, there is what Prince may have said and what Prince actually meant. He meant that no one he was contracted to protect lost their lives. Not only that, Blackwater contractors saved many many lives of American servicemen… both directly and indirectly by making it unnecessary to deploy troops in their place.
@scottmeredith3359
@scottmeredith3359 2 ай бұрын
He’s not wrong lol
@AmonAnon-vw3hr
@AmonAnon-vw3hr 2 ай бұрын
@T1kr3b3u lol
@billclancy4913
@billclancy4913 Ай бұрын
As a DOD contractor, I traveled often in Afghanistan. Various entities provided convoy security on the convoys. My favorites were Blackwater, and the British soldiers. Many of the US Army troops were reservists or Guardsman, and not quite as cool under fire as career soldiers.
@TheInfantry98
@TheInfantry98 8 күн бұрын
Says the nobody who was too scared of weak to serve his country
@joshuapatrick682
@joshuapatrick682 2 ай бұрын
I lived in Nola during and after Katrina, it was surreal to see the military and PMC’s patrolling.
@daleblue22
@daleblue22 2 ай бұрын
Back in the late 2000's I got a job rebuilding AS 330 helicopters for Black Water. They poured millions on their airtransport division. They even had two Super Tucanos. 😮
@captainspaulding5963
@captainspaulding5963 2 ай бұрын
They wanted to be part of the first boots on the ground. The longer they are there, the more money they stand to make. Heavy air transport spending makes sense
@scentilatingone2148
@scentilatingone2148 2 ай бұрын
They had all the good gear. Not sure I agree with half of this.
@th3epcplayer958
@th3epcplayer958 2 ай бұрын
@@captainspaulding5963it actually had to do with “big picture” spending… Super Tucanos are cheaper to operate/maintain/use than traditional U.S. aircraft, and providing a program that could train/equip Iraqi forces cheaper than other manufacturers would be a major money maker for EP
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts 2 ай бұрын
Erick Prince Proposed forming a joint Afghan PMC airforce using those they could have tripled the amount of available close air support and it would have had substantially cheaper operational costs
@quokka7555
@quokka7555 2 ай бұрын
Spent more time than I should have trying to figure out what guns were being held in the thumbnail lol
@isaiahwill7874
@isaiahwill7874 2 ай бұрын
They are weird looking did you figure it out?
@ReverendMeat51
@ReverendMeat51 2 ай бұрын
@@isaiahwill7874 They're weird looking because AI can't figure guns out yet
@TheTomconroy
@TheTomconroy 2 ай бұрын
Or hands
@Kai-vo5zq
@Kai-vo5zq 2 ай бұрын
@@TheTomconroy Most AI's can do hands now.
@hyperturbotechnomike
@hyperturbotechnomike 2 ай бұрын
A fused together mutation of AR-10 (vietnam era with carry handle), H&K G3 and AK-74 with PSO-1 like optics.
@MrUnl33t
@MrUnl33t 2 ай бұрын
Not only those men mentioned at 12:25 were threatened with immediate contract termination, meaning "get back home on your own", the convoy they were made to drive was going to get forks and spoons. Blackwater got their men killed over forks.
@Wesley-kt5li
@Wesley-kt5li 2 ай бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the thumbnail
@MisterMolby
@MisterMolby 2 ай бұрын
I heard they rebranded to Usec and are fighting a Russian pmc in Tarkov
@sockholliday1203
@sockholliday1203 2 ай бұрын
Bethesda designing their guns?
@MakusinMeringue
@MakusinMeringue 2 ай бұрын
that's an insult to AI, even AI does better guns than bethesda
@TitanSubZero15
@TitanSubZero15 2 ай бұрын
It just works 💪
@CT-hr9nk
@CT-hr9nk Ай бұрын
I was wondering why they have guns that I'm sure don't even exist and why their uniforms are so obscure. It's damn AI, can't even spell the title right. Lazy af.
@CT-hr9nk
@CT-hr9nk Ай бұрын
@@MakusinMeringue haha, true
@tylerchrist3249
@tylerchrist3249 2 ай бұрын
Just gonna day, New Orleans is far from a relaxed city and their 9th Ward neighborhood is widely considered one of the most dangerous in the USA. Tourists visiting the French Quarter and Downtown will experience pretty relaxed vibes, but you go outside of those neighborhoods you need to pay attention to your surroundings.
@matthewshannon6946
@matthewshannon6946 Ай бұрын
Myself and a buddy in 2008 were driving on a hwy. in Metarie. We passed a place we wanted to eat at and went around the block to get back to it. Once we were one block away from the highway, it looked like Beirut!! It looked like Katrina happened last week!!
@PaleoVirus
@PaleoVirus Ай бұрын
I'm well heeled when I visit mates in NO. Seriously shite pd. Over run with crime.
@lukeyarasheski5510
@lukeyarasheski5510 2 ай бұрын
That compound is crazy huge. For reference, it is about 27 and a half square miles. You just see this fence that goes on forever. It reminded me of driving in the areas that surround what is now Ft Liberty
@Wolf-gt7mb
@Wolf-gt7mb 2 ай бұрын
You misspelled happened in the thumbnail.
@Shjeshje
@Shjeshje 2 ай бұрын
😅
@frenzalrhomb6919
@frenzalrhomb6919 2 ай бұрын
Honestly, who cares? Apparently you're the only one.
@chrism2516
@chrism2516 2 ай бұрын
@@frenzalrhomb6919 It doesn't really matter all that much but it's still good to post about so they can fix it if they want to
@mr.z3664
@mr.z3664 2 ай бұрын
"What happned to BLACKWATER"... Apparently AI designed their rifles.
@craigfurlong7981
@craigfurlong7981 2 ай бұрын
@Wolf-gt7mb you don't even have a thumbnail, let alone a channel....bwahahaha
@stevea4771
@stevea4771 2 ай бұрын
The classic small company where they can pick the best staff changing into a company chasing money and taking on staff without the checks on their suitability in order to have enough staff to win contracts.
@Superbatmanbro
@Superbatmanbro 2 ай бұрын
a k a shadow company 😂
@KR4Qep
@KR4Qep 2 ай бұрын
watch erik princes interviews on shawn ryans show you'll be amazed by how much you don't know. if you do i'm thinking you'll consider prince a liar on everything he says, so just research as you watch. the dude was a valuable asset to this country and a direct threat to military budgets because he was so effective for the price. he along with the cia staged operation anaconda which was the most successful military operation since desert storm. it was also the cheapest. op anaconda used northern alliance, which was a local force we've since abandoned (there's a pattern here), and just 200 operators. and the war was won in 3 months that pissed off the pentagon, hence why afghanistan turned into a 20 year war you understand what this means, right? under blackwater leadership, afghanistan would have been stable and we would have been gone by 2006 if there were left alone. but the military industrial complex wants their nut
@needsmetal
@needsmetal 2 ай бұрын
​@oogafoo there still mad Desert Storm lasted 3 days
@WestSideGorilla1980
@WestSideGorilla1980 2 ай бұрын
It's about the money not quality men, like everyone else in Iraq. They could've hired good highly trained dudes, but hey they cost too much....
@covertguy1575
@covertguy1575 Ай бұрын
Travis Haley is a solid dude. He wasn’t killing anyone that didn’t need to be killed in the first place. He was well within ROE on that engagement.
@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski
@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski 2 ай бұрын
blackwater maybe the most infamous but there are plenty of other pmc's that have got themselves involved in more outlandish capers. it's a fun history hole to explore. blackwater may have been the single pmc that was getting large US military contracts but the way the US was running the wars in the middle east the US military was eventually going to contract out to someone. Rumsfeld emphasized fast results with the least amount of personnel used for almost everything. But most US miltary organizations have too much autonomy and careful work up procedures (which any military organization pursuing sustained success should have) to be ideally reactive to rumsfeld's meddling. so blackwater is what you get. Blackwater probably did nothing outside of the approval of their paymasters but they employed a pmc specifically for fast, dirty, results and plausible deniability. persecution of blackwater is playing right into the hands of the people who set up these catastrophes. in the end pmc's run a shell game, they exist mainly to be able to absorb blame for the decisions of people who have precious political careers. a pmc with a good track record is a pmc that hasnt had much business yet. pmc's do what militaries won't. the US government shouldnt even be allowed to contract out to pmc's, it should be codified that the US military doesnt allow private contractors, in roles beyond logistics and construction, in militarily contested spaces. pmc use probably always denotes bad acts.
@SusCalvin
@SusCalvin 2 ай бұрын
One use of mercenaries is to disguise casualties. The home front reacts less to dead mercs than army regulars who could be their kids.
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts 2 ай бұрын
Blackwater was never supposed to do what they ended up doing the problem was the people the military had doing the job couldn't handle it ambassador Bremer was being protected by some national guard MP unit and they just didn't have the experience. back then blackwater was composed of SEALS, SAS, SASR, PJs, MARSOC, CAG, ARMY SF, and Army Rangers that had been fighting the dirty wars throughout the 90s and early GWOT the military couldn't spare special forces for those jobs but blackwater was able to get the retired ones because they wanted a more flexible schedule and better pay. They had the experienced people and they weren't bogged down by bureaucracy so they were more adaptable.
@SusCalvin
@SusCalvin Ай бұрын
@@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts One perk of mercenaries is that you don't need to bother with long-term costs like VA bills. The public gets less upset when a contractor dies. I'm interested in the opposite end in general. The low-cost end of mercenary options.
@JaneyUwU
@JaneyUwU 2 ай бұрын
AI thumbnail?
@jamesbrisendine
@jamesbrisendine 2 ай бұрын
Yup. As someone in a different comment thread said "F I N G I E S", meaning "look at the fingers".
@JakezMad
@JakezMad 2 ай бұрын
​@@jamesbrisendine oh god the pinkies got worse as I scanned over the three guys eww. Cursed af, not to mention the nerf guns with extra strings attached
@jamesbrisendine
@jamesbrisendine 2 ай бұрын
@@JakezMad when i first saw the thumbnail i thought the guns were those full auto shotguns that were in COD. But yeah, after i took a screenshot of it and zoomed in, everything just looked way outta wack.
@Goku-dv2vp
@Goku-dv2vp 2 ай бұрын
I was wondering what weapon they were holding and then saw the fingers, my god this AI stuff sucks on so many levels. Goes yo show that this channel it’s as reputable as it might make itself seem.
@holyfordus
@holyfordus 2 ай бұрын
It’s honestly kind of wild considering the fact that simply searching and downloading an image of “mercenaries with guns” probably would’ve pulled an *actual* picture of Blackwater *and* taken less time than generating an AI image. And it would’ve looked better too.
@ratchet2505
@ratchet2505 2 ай бұрын
Please, there are open source images for this one.
@militustoica
@militustoica 2 ай бұрын
For real…
@northwindhighlander
@northwindhighlander 2 ай бұрын
Should cover the French foreign Legion with this kind of in depth coverage. It's actually an interesting story to go into.
@zachnichols6434
@zachnichols6434 2 ай бұрын
My step father was on seal team 2. Then he worked for blackwater for about 3 years. He doesn't like to bring that up now though. As you would assume.
@Mvpliberty
@Mvpliberty 2 ай бұрын
Is he financially good from the three your tender? Did he developed mental issues he struggles with because of the time there?
@mariakelly90210
@mariakelly90210 2 ай бұрын
I remember when Erik Prince was on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine and in the article said he was a CIA Asset, which I personally think that he shouldn't have said that. It seemed like he mentioned that because he wanted to look like James Bond.
@Notrog21
@Notrog21 2 ай бұрын
It's like what they used to say.. An actual bad ass doesn't go around telling people they are bad ass.
@Bear15780
@Bear15780 2 ай бұрын
Well I don't think he was doing it to be bad ass I think it was all about money.
@the0ne809
@the0ne809 2 ай бұрын
Erik Prince also gotten contracts from the chinese government in order to "monitor" he Uighurs. I gotta say that dude is one of the most evil people out there. No wonder why Betsy is his sister.
@spacecatfelix9032
@spacecatfelix9032 2 ай бұрын
Though full of faults the dude is a bad ass but must be suffering from severe imposter syndrome
@slartybarfastb3648
@slartybarfastb3648 2 ай бұрын
​@@Notrog21Their first acknowledged mission was to protect CIA bases in Afghanistan before the US military had even invaded yet. The CIA doesn't give that level of trust and responsibility to anyone who is not a "CIA asset". There's no secret here, so why wouldn't he admit what is already blatantly obvious?
@Historybuff_769
@Historybuff_769 2 ай бұрын
Ai is so stupid for generating photos
@Hebdomad7
@Hebdomad7 2 ай бұрын
Great for concept art. Terrible at technical drawing of real world objects.
@Ryanixrs
@Ryanixrs 2 ай бұрын
I got to experience blackwaters compound in the peak. I still have a few of the shirts they gave us with the logo on the back.
@eziahjohnson167
@eziahjohnson167 Ай бұрын
That’s dope
@TiocfaidhArLa34
@TiocfaidhArLa34 Ай бұрын
If you ever plan on visiting Ukraine you might want to leave those shirts behind lol.
@bobmiley9587
@bobmiley9587 25 күн бұрын
I have a few of those shirts and a hoodie one also.
@andrewm1309
@andrewm1309 2 ай бұрын
I remember being in September 2007 when that happened. We were on the Iraq - Syria border. we locked down everything and waited for Retaliation attacks. Personally never worked with Blackwater but did work around British PMC they were very professional
@FALslayer
@FALslayer 2 ай бұрын
I didn't know the UK had PMC's what were they called?
@andrewm1309
@andrewm1309 2 ай бұрын
Sorry, I don't remember it was back in 2007.
@joshm7225
@joshm7225 2 ай бұрын
Aegis probably was my team we came out to their around the time alot.
@mikeiso8963
@mikeiso8963 2 ай бұрын
New Orleans being relaxed and easy going is hilarious. It’s one of the many major cities with a high murder rate around the time.
@SATAANTHA
@SATAANTHA 2 ай бұрын
New Orleans is one of the more dangerous places I have ever lived. I saw people get stabbed for next to nothing, dead kids on the sidewalks, and political corruption of the highest degree. It's a long story, but , there is also a black market for fresh human bodies...
@captainspaulding5963
@captainspaulding5963 2 ай бұрын
​@@SATAANTHA "long story"= voodoo.... pretty short
@SATAANTHA
@SATAANTHA 2 ай бұрын
That and organ harvesting. I resurrected in the "receiving" part of the "processing center" and I didn't see occultists,I saw gangsters...
@HandyMan657
@HandyMan657 2 ай бұрын
@@SATAANTHA BS. I call BS Back to Leningrad, Vlad.
@SATAANTHA
@SATAANTHA 2 ай бұрын
@HandyMan657 I could care less what you believe... I have nothing to gain other than humiliation and perhaps shame for sharing this besides awareness. Yes I intentionally left out some sordid details I wouldn't generally want EVERYONE to know. Like how how the whole thing was my fault because I was pretty addicted to drugs eight or so years ago when this occurred and I was working LARF (Louisiana area renaissance festival) right outside of Hammond Louisiana. After the ren fair closed on Sunday a group of us went to Nola and my goal at least was to find some heroin. Only problem was that I didn't know anybody to get it from. So I resorted to getting it from strangers. I found someone who said they would if we walked to their house which wasn't too far from the French quarter. I said hell yea let's go. When we arrived, we made a transaction and as I was suggesting that I should leave, it was strongly implied that do some of my drugs in their presence to "prove I wasn't a cop"(which is utterly ridiculous) Anyways I did the smallest little bit(I was very aware of the potential phentanyl contamination In the heroin supply) and I didn't want to get fucked up there, I still had to walk back to quarter and find my friends, return to LARF campground ect. I then seemingly exploded back to life from a recliner to standing position and realize that I am Completely naked and have no clue when or where I happened to be. There is a very gangster individual who appears to be in a some type state of shock pointing his finger at me with his mouth wide open. I verbally expressed my outrage and was told that I dead and blue for six hours and how my standing there was "impossible" and that I needed to just leave. I responded "where in the fuxx are my clothes?" He handed me a garbage bag which contained my clothes ,shoes and my now empty wallet(minus $50 and the bag of who knows what)my phone wasn't there and I didn't ask for it back.... I am tired of looking at my phone so believe whatever you want to.
@alexduke5402
@alexduke5402 2 ай бұрын
Blackwater had a perfect record. They didn't lose a single asset. They lost some men but they never lost a person under their protection.
@PaleoVirus
@PaleoVirus Ай бұрын
We definitely made contact. We occasionally were able to redirect air power. Fantastic force multiplier. Particularly when you're scared shit less.
@justanotheropossumchannel5304
@justanotheropossumchannel5304 Ай бұрын
This barely even touches base with how crazy BW was. Killing a whole family and burning the house down bc a guy didn't extend his contract? Hiring an untold amount of convicted felons? Blackwater has you.
@Graves-81_69
@Graves-81_69 2 ай бұрын
I was first made aware of BlackWater in 2001. I was introduced to a couple employees that spent the weekend with us. I was given one of their fold out brochures and started paying attention to the company.
@HeavyMetal45
@HeavyMetal45 2 ай бұрын
Word on the street is that this segment was due and Simon had to run to his office to hit send. As he was running he had to go to the bathroom really bad or risk an accident. Simon knew he didn’t have much time and that there was a spelling error on the thumbnail. His options were either go number 2 and say screw wiping and run to the office and fix the error before hitting send, or give a proper wipe and most likely have to hit submit without correction due to time. Well, being the gentleman he is, Simon couldn’t not give himself a proper wipe so thus the spelling error.
@nilsmeyer7278
@nilsmeyer7278 2 ай бұрын
Dude wtf Had me smiling tho
@longhairdontcare122
@longhairdontcare122 2 ай бұрын
I'd have not wiped enough and leve massive spelling errors.
@JoelFazio
@JoelFazio 2 ай бұрын
Legend has it he's still wiping.
@joelpeterson8424
@joelpeterson8424 2 ай бұрын
By the rapid speach and one-breath paragraphs, I'd say he had to pee too.
@Anoradord
@Anoradord 2 ай бұрын
Please work on the quality control. Idk if this is a skeleton crew doing their best. But this is a pretty low standard of quality
@yourbuddyunit
@yourbuddyunit Ай бұрын
This channel has explained so many things clearly and extensively that are significantly hazy and often completely obfuscated to the average American. Thank you and the team so very much for this amazing (AND FREE) content!
@THExDUDEx8624
@THExDUDEx8624 2 ай бұрын
Your videos keep getting better. Thanks for making awesome videos 🤘🏽
@cooltraineraaron4618
@cooltraineraaron4618 2 ай бұрын
I got to the end of the video before I realized this guy wasn't talking about BlackRock
@dillond9747
@dillond9747 2 ай бұрын
BRO LOOK AT THOSE HANDS WTF
@madeindade6822
@madeindade6822 Ай бұрын
I worked for Constellis from 2009-2015 and I can personally say that the image of fear was encouraged and we enjoyed all the hype.
@jvbutalid8316
@jvbutalid8316 2 ай бұрын
"What you see here is advanced warfare." "We've just privatized world peace."
@truthteller2033
@truthteller2033 2 ай бұрын
That sniper clip is legendary. "It's a turkey shoot!" haha
@3klipse1
@3klipse1 2 ай бұрын
Yea but that was a completely different incident. Feels weird seeing Haley there when talking about a bad shooting, when that turkey shoot was in response to US forces taking fire and they were the only backup at the time.
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary 2 ай бұрын
@@3klipse1 It was the Spanish Embassy siege in Najaf Iraq in 2004. Was a mix of Spanish, Salvadoran, Colombian, US Military forces, and the Blackwater PSD team and a QRF/ ERT/ TST Team that responded. Estimated 2500 Mahdi Army fanatical insurgents tried to attack the complex, and were held off.
@slartybarfastb3648
@slartybarfastb3648 2 ай бұрын
It was a small part of the much larger Battle of Najaf. Sent in to extract a diplomat, Blackwater became trapped as the Mahdi Army began pushing reinforcements through the nearby cemetary into the city to face the US Marines. This created a crossfire in the cemetary. Blackwater and a small contingent of Marines on one flank and the 1/4 Marines pushing toward and into the cemetary from within the city. The diplomatic complex was never the primary target, but presented a problem which Mahdis had to counter. The "turkey shoot" refers to the sniper's paradise US Marine snipers found after occupying two hotels overlooking the cemetary. The battle broke the Mahdi Army, relegating them to a Sadr City problem primarily.
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary 2 ай бұрын
@@slartybarfastb3648 Correct, good context.
@slartybarfastb3648
@slartybarfastb3648 2 ай бұрын
@@DJTheMetalheadMercenary Thanks. Due to the viral videos of Blackwater's fight, the 4th Marines tend to get little or no credit for the battle they fought and the carnage they inflicted on al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, Hezbollah and the Iranian IRGC Quds Force. The Mahdi Army survivors were allowed to leave the battlefield after 3 weeks, but did so unarmed and with US Marines lining their egress route to show them the way out of town. Al-Sadr fled to Iran and was never again the force he had been, instead, seeking refuge from US Special Forces and CIA in Iran, which showed where his allegiance layed.
@militustoica
@militustoica 2 ай бұрын
Those AI thumbnails are gonna make people wonder if they’re having a stroke.
@Nick24733
@Nick24733 2 ай бұрын
I never thought I'd get investment tips from Waropraphics
@AlexanderRay92
@AlexanderRay92 2 ай бұрын
"Faulty intelligence" bruh they lied
@knifekitty_ls
@knifekitty_ls 2 ай бұрын
6:28 is missing signature thunder and eagle scream
@GamerX13X
@GamerX13X 2 ай бұрын
As a native of North Carolina, I find this to be a very fun fact that blackwater started here in my home state. And it was also funny healing Simon pronounced the name of our state capital, I've never heard that sort of pronunciation before. Also fantastic video super cool
@mariakelly90210
@mariakelly90210 2 ай бұрын
Well Simon is known throughout KZfaq for his mispronounciation of various words.
@mr.z3664
@mr.z3664 2 ай бұрын
It's even more sad because it's named after Sir Walter Raleigh... you'd think Simon would know how to pronounce his name, instead he sounds like a yankee.
@Thobeian
@Thobeian 2 ай бұрын
@@mr.z3664 Even a yankee wouldn't mess it up that bad
@Metaphix
@Metaphix 2 ай бұрын
Delta Force is stationed here too in Bragg
@Westcoast3d2a
@Westcoast3d2a 2 ай бұрын
Seal team 6 in san diego
@teamcharcoal1554
@teamcharcoal1554 2 ай бұрын
A family member of mine with Canadian Special Forces taught a course at blackwater. I always thought that was pretty neat.
@luislongoria6621
@luislongoria6621 2 ай бұрын
Canadian, Israeli, what's the airsoft difference? Project Gecko is cool and some of those larpers can outshoot servicemen who only touch their weapons once a year
@WarPigstheHun
@WarPigstheHun 2 ай бұрын
Correction on the Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq: there were some chemical and biochemical shells left over from the 1980's but most appeared not usable, or parts separated in different rooms (intentionally or unintentionally). This was hazardous to the troops that were handling disposal of these expiring shells. And I believe some got sick from them.
@WarPigstheHun
@WarPigstheHun 2 ай бұрын
People always say "there were no WMDs." There tech ically were, but we were expecting/assuming that Saddam had an arsenal of more modern shells. Iraq was mostly our ally. And they kept Iran in check. Without Saddam Iran has grown in power. *Most people of Iraq have benefited from being a democracy, and the US Treasury is working with the Iraqi treasury to weed out corruption. They recommend Iraqis move away from the US dollar because terrorist and corrupt folk are using it in other countries due to its ready acceptance and buying power, at least until corruption levels are negligible.
@jakebruce1034
@jakebruce1034 23 күн бұрын
Thank you for pointing that fact out that everyone just breezes by
@Lootbot90
@Lootbot90 2 ай бұрын
I had the pleasure of training at BW/XE twice. It was the best training I’ve ever received. Top notch people.
@MissMentats
@MissMentats 2 ай бұрын
Who is doing your thumbnails Simon? Was it you?
@ChristianStout
@ChristianStout 2 ай бұрын
Where can I find a list of sources for the quotes/documents in this video?
@EAcapuccino
@EAcapuccino 2 ай бұрын
Strongly influenced the fictional PMC in GTA V (Merryweather security)
@anotherbacklog
@anotherbacklog 2 ай бұрын
Somehow people compare Prigozhin to Big Boss, but rarely compare Erik Prince, the guy with actual military experience and probably inspired MGS4, to Big Boss
@chrisbutler1668
@chrisbutler1668 2 ай бұрын
The character of Big Boss was created in 1987 and most of his lore was established prior to public awareness of Blackwater. However, they most likely inspired the underlying plot of Metal Gear Solid 4 where proxy wars fought my PMC's are the backbone of the military industrial complex and the world economy (which was one thing he did not predict correctly).
@dirckthedork-knight1201
@dirckthedork-knight1201 2 ай бұрын
Because Erik Prince is just a dog with no drive other than money Prigozhin and Wagner had a true anti colonial liberation ideology
@captainspaulding5963
@captainspaulding5963 2 ай бұрын
​@chrisbutler1668 if Big Boss was created in 87, ALL of his lore was created before Blackwater was even founded.
@christracey5813
@christracey5813 2 ай бұрын
​@captainspaulding5963 not necessarily. They only things Big Boss had lore wise when MGS 1 came out was that he was as a "legendary Mercenary" (whatever that means) was able to use that reputation to become commander of Fox Hound, and created Outer Heven and Zanzarbarland as nations defacto ruled by mercenaries. You could say he had an ethos due to radio conversations in the first two Metal Gear gamew but not much of a backstory. This phenomenon wasn't uncommon for video game characters/villains in the 80's and 90's. It wasn't until MGS3 that Big Boss had a backstory and the whole global military industrial complex puppetmaster angle, that always was in the background of the Solid games started to be fleshed out as well. MGS3 came out in 2003 if I remember correctly. Also it is well known Kojima didn't plan on making and sequels to the original Metal Gear when he made it. He only made Solid Snake after seeing Snake's Revenge and thinking it was crap. You don't go into detail for (expected) one shot games.
@christracey5813
@christracey5813 2 ай бұрын
@chrisbutler1668 but not pre Afghanistan. This video shows that Blackwater was part of the initial invasion. That said MS3 is more about how the cold war was entirely a political conflict with no real point and nuclear procurement, then mercenaries. That part of Big Boss was fleshed out in Portible Ops and Peasewaller. I also @ed the wrong dude. I meant to reply to the guy saying Big Boss's lore was set in stone in 87
@theshmir1959
@theshmir1959 2 ай бұрын
If i remember correctly, it was this PMC that inspired "Shadow Company" in the modern warfare series
@hhenryf.8
@hhenryf.8 Ай бұрын
Thank you for your intelligent, thoughtful, articulate and comprehensive reporting! You've gained a new subscriber!!
@bannankev
@bannankev 2 ай бұрын
Simon, please don’t go down the AI generated route. Many of us come here because we respect the level of thought and scope you put into the videos. We dont come here for AI thumbnails, spelling errors that gotta be ai generated. 🙏
@josephpfeffer3381
@josephpfeffer3381 Ай бұрын
Stop your bitching
@joshmarshall7610
@joshmarshall7610 2 ай бұрын
When I reclassified from Engineer to Infantry, I was sent to a Blackwater training camp for some of the training. I always found it wierd that the Army would send me to a PMC camp for part of my training.
@Mvpliberty
@Mvpliberty 2 ай бұрын
Do you feel like the training they taught was actually pretty helpful? Do you think some of the techniques that they taught were actually superior?
@felixthecat4584
@felixthecat4584 Ай бұрын
Two statements will always be true. *"war is hell" and "war is a racket"* Not sure who said the first, but Smedley Buttler was most definitely not wrong.
@jmanj3917
@jmanj3917 2 ай бұрын
0:16 Ah, nice! I was wondering, just the other day, what had become of those people. [Hoping you have something for this Memorial Day weekend, here in 'Murica, on one of your other channels...lol] 🙂
@Callsign_Prophet
@Callsign_Prophet 2 ай бұрын
Corrections: News and Observer is based out of Raleigh (Rah-Lee) which is the capital of NC and is hours away. The Blackwater facility was located entirely within NC to the east of the Great Dismal Swamp south of Moyock which itself is decently far south of the Virginia border. It's important to recognize the US is a union. The member states and locations aren't a footnote especially when the described location is so far off
@EyeOfTheWatcher
@EyeOfTheWatcher 2 ай бұрын
Camden, County, NC is the county were blackwater was located in. Raleigh is about 3 hours or so from Camden County depending on where you start from. It is not too far from the Virginia boarder if you cut through Elizabeth City, as it will take them about 45 minutes to get to Norfolk, Va. driving.
@Callsign_Prophet
@Callsign_Prophet 2 ай бұрын
@@EyeOfTheWatcher Exactly. The Training facilty is a little over a 30 minute drive to the border however which is a stretch to say "located on the North Carolina-Virginia border". 30 minutes is reasonable if he was talking about 30 minutes to a nearby city like what he implied with Raleigh lol.
@Vemiia
@Vemiia 2 ай бұрын
ooof the AI is so incredibly bad and obvious
@thomasfinley6751
@thomasfinley6751 2 ай бұрын
So I find it hilarious that my most educational videos like this are hidden in my viewed history! I can fine all of my fishing videos in my history but not this one, had to go to your page directly to keep watching it. Keep up the real history!❤
@ChiefMiddleFinger
@ChiefMiddleFinger Ай бұрын
SensorTube strikes again!
@stevenscoggin7441
@stevenscoggin7441 2 ай бұрын
I got to train at the facility discussed in the video. It was an amazing course offered by exceptional instructors. Still have some memorabilia with their original logos. It also prompted me to research what is the difference between a pmc versus a mercenary company
@jamesmullins5826
@jamesmullins5826 2 ай бұрын
Fun fact: I was actually a cell mate with one of the nisour square guys. Nick was his name. This was in 2019 and he had been convicted and overturned twice already by then. He was locked up between his trials too. Even then he was pretty sure that he would need a pardon. I don’t know if he was innocent or not but there more than enough reasonable doubt for me. He should be free. He now is.
@Mvpliberty
@Mvpliberty 2 ай бұрын
My last name is Liberty and I was wondering if I was related to that Eric Liberty character
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary
@DJTheMetalheadMercenary 2 ай бұрын
Yep, the whole team was exonerated/ pardoned after evidence was discovered to have been suppressed and they were a political railroad scapegoat.
@joshm7225
@joshm7225 Ай бұрын
Yah I worked with a bunch of those guys that were there with BW at that time. They had the guys immediately paint the trucks to cover up bullet strikes then investigators didn't show up until week or days later. Amongst other things was a matter of changing politics, then after that they even came out with a separate wing of IRS agents to go after all us pmc guys.
@WaywardVet
@WaywardVet 2 ай бұрын
They can change their name all they want. Anytime someone brought up PMCs in an intelligence brief, someone would always say "disposables". And i'll call out the Brits, it was always me and them grinning.
@jacobc4582
@jacobc4582 2 ай бұрын
The irony is that you are the disposable one, too. Lol. Army infantry are exponentially less-well trained and have significantly higher casualty rates than Blackwater or Constellis ever have. We're not breaking down doors clearing houses, we get paid more and come in afterwards to babysit your infantry. You fail to understand that 80% of our guys came from military infantry, mostly 0311s or 11Bs from the USMC and Army respectively. But you keep sucking up the propaganda the military fed you to make you think you were favored. I could call in an airstrike in Iraq just as fast as you could. I had better gear, better training and a better team. I didn't have any privates, all of my guys were retired E4 or higher. Cope more.
@scottmeredith3359
@scottmeredith3359 2 ай бұрын
Don’t get it, grinning because it meant you wouldn’t have to go or because you guys didn’t like PMCs? Don’t understand what the joke was
@WaywardVet
@WaywardVet 2 ай бұрын
@@scottmeredith3359 We just had no respect for them. They only popped up when they made mistakes. Absolutely did not share intel.
@joshm7225
@joshm7225 2 ай бұрын
Depends we had sf teams coming to us for Intel, not sure what contractor teams you worked with. Know received and knew way more about all of iraqs daily events then ever knew in the marines.
@WaywardVet
@WaywardVet 2 ай бұрын
@@joshm7225 They pretty much got banned after Nisour Square (from the briefing. I'll get that later). And before i left they even banned the Brits for the sin of drinking on base. By the time i left, it was pretty much just a circle jerk where the Army provided the ground intel, the Air Force provided translations of recovered documents, and... everyone else had been excommunicated by the base commander other than KBR and Tripple Canopy because they ran the DFAC and the gate, but weren't allowed in the briefing. My base commander wouldn't trust the African mercs the doors to the chow hall or even the front gate with access to the very threats they faced while guarding us.
@wernervanderwalt8541
@wernervanderwalt8541 2 ай бұрын
It's difficult to control the dog of war once you slipped its leash.
@Gutterfighting
@Gutterfighting 2 ай бұрын
Blackwater Trainkng Center was a great place to train. I went thru several courses in 2005, Carbine Operator Course, Hostage Rescue & High Risk Warrent Courses.
@john4845
@john4845 2 ай бұрын
AI couldn’t even spell “happened” right lmao
@PearlTheFrenchie
@PearlTheFrenchie 2 ай бұрын
Although I am saddened by the behaviour of these mercenaries, I am not shocked
@jellymop
@jellymop Ай бұрын
This guy is on yet another channel. How many channels do you have brother?
@smac1706
@smac1706 2 ай бұрын
I have been wanting you to do a video on these guys for years. They helped train people for the navy when i was in tech school for the air force back in 07 and I've always wondered what exactly they are. And now I'm extremely curious what they were doing at Lackland AFB in 2007. Like i said, they were there helping the Navy cops who also trained there as far as i know, but I'm curious what else they did...
@mr.z3664
@mr.z3664 2 ай бұрын
They do everything that the US government needs/wants plausible deniability.
@SusCalvin
@SusCalvin 2 ай бұрын
Training is one of the largest jobs for mercenaries. In Africa they can be hired as an instructor cadre to build a local force around.
@TakenTook
@TakenTook 2 ай бұрын
One of the many reasons I was sad to see the TV show _Jericho_ end was how they included a shady contractor group based on Blackwater
@cornpopwasabaddude4188
@cornpopwasabaddude4188 2 ай бұрын
I did in service training there once. The small part i got to see was incredible.
@B.D.E.
@B.D.E. 2 ай бұрын
Awe look at their tiny little bayonets lol.
@calebbean1384
@calebbean1384 2 ай бұрын
I heard the sun sets forever over blackwater park. Not sure if that's related
@MisterFoxton
@MisterFoxton 2 ай бұрын
How... Bleak
@tallahassZ
@tallahassZ Ай бұрын
I have a buddy that has worked for this company since it was called Blackwater. The dude is solid af.
@Budrew21
@Budrew21 2 ай бұрын
Love the AI thumbnail! Keep up the great work and thank you for embracing the future!
@LEGDAY
@LEGDAY 2 ай бұрын
Cmon guys not the AI thumbnails :/
@multipletanksyndrome
@multipletanksyndrome 2 ай бұрын
Don't forget, Eric Prince is Betys DeVos's brother.
@dabajabaza111
@dabajabaza111 2 ай бұрын
New oligarchy.
@FrankCastle694
@FrankCastle694 2 ай бұрын
@@dabajabaza111I wish
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts
@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts 2 ай бұрын
​@@dabajabaza111the oligarcy is Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street notice Larry Fink never gets in trouble for anything but Erick Prince did? Private Schools are just like PMCs they're better because they get paid to do a job without the government micromanaging them.
@dashcammer4322
@dashcammer4322 2 ай бұрын
@@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts Nicely put.
@davidringle7
@davidringle7 2 ай бұрын
Without the black frames on his glasses Simon looks like a different person
@ez8308
@ez8308 Ай бұрын
RIP Scott Helvenston, the youngest Navy SEAL ever
@Doug_Dimmadome
@Doug_Dimmadome 2 ай бұрын
No more AI at all simon plz
@clamum9648
@clamum9648 2 ай бұрын
It's good for generating concept images or to get creative juices flowing, but it's ridiculous to use professionally and without modification. Have you seen the utter slop provided by Google AI Summary, because they scraped that cesspool Reddit and The Onion? It's absurd 🤡🌎 crap.
@kananisha
@kananisha 2 ай бұрын
They changed names again? Lol
@redmondthealien7840
@redmondthealien7840 2 ай бұрын
No matter how far the planks and parts may be scattered to the winds. The ship of theseus retains it's form, until it is torn down bolt by bolt. And rebuilt. They will remain Blackwater.
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