Is the American Blackwater Security Company awesome? Thank you for your questions.

Blackwater is a famous American mercenary and security company. 1997 was established by several retired soldiers of the US Navy special forces "SEALs" and opened in 1998. Company president Gary? 6? 1 Jackson worked in the navy for 23 years, training director Jim? 6? 1 Silavoski worked in the navy for 22 years. Black water is hidden in a pine forest in northeastern North Carolina, covering an area of 7,000 acres, which is hard to find outside. There are various training venues here, such as shooting ranges, buildings simulating hostage taking, and bunkers occupied by militants. Its equipment is very advanced, and the amphibious forces of the US Navy often train here. Now, the company's training center has become the largest training center for private security personnel in the United States, and more than 50,000 people have received training. The company has also become a large security company covering five subsidiaries: training center, shooting range, police dog training, air guard and security consultant. Its clients include US Department of Defense, the State Council, Department of Transportation, federal law enforcement agencies, multinational corporations and foreign governments. Edit this paragraph | Back to the Top Background and Development Blackwater Company specializes in hiring retired soldiers and police officers, and also recruits volunteer civilians. Most of them are in their thirties and forties, experienced and healthy. After special training, they became senior armed security personnel. This kind of work pays well, ranging from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars a day. Some people can earn the money they earned the year before last in one month. In order to tap talents from the active forces, Blackwater Company offered a high salary of more than 100,000 yuan per year, and recruited some instructors and senior officers of special forces to join. The family of eric prince, president of Blackwater Company, has been the main donor of the party's campaign funds. Blackwater is keen to hire officials who have served in the U.S. government, including Cofer Black, former director of counter-terrorism of the CIA, and Joseph Schmitz, former inspector general of the Pentagon. 1998, Blackwater Company was founded with only six employees, but in just ten years, it has developed from a small security company with only a few employees to the largest security company in the world, with an annual income of about120,000 US dollars. In May, 2006, in the exhibition of special forces equipment held in Amman, Jordan, Black, vice chairman of Blackwater Company, announced that Blackwater's mercenaries could go to any war-torn area in the world to perform their tasks. At present, Blackwater has 2,300 employees in 9 countries around the world, 20,000 employees are on standby and 20 planes are on standby. According to US government archives, since June 2004, the Bush administration has paid Blackwater a "global diplomatic security service fee" of 320 million US dollars. Some people think that Blackwater's success, the success of profit, depends entirely on the funding of the US government. "Through war and reconstruction, a lot of public funds were transferred to private pockets, and then they spent a lot of dollars on the presidential campaign." Therefore, the Spanish newspaper El Pais called the four-year war in Iraq a "private war". Edit this paragraph | Back to eric prince, the head of Blackwater Company in eric prince, and eric prince were born in a businessman's family in Holland, Michigan, USA on June 6th, 65438. Hard work, family and religion are the core tenets of the Prince family. Prince's old friends think that he is a responsible and enterprising man, who acts unexpectedly and has a strong spirit of adventure. During George W. Bush's presidential campaign, Prince, who was only 19 years old, donated15,000 dollars to the * * * and the party, which formed an indissoluble bond with the Bush family. After graduating from high school, Prince studied at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, but transferred to Hillsdale College because he was "not challenging and conservative enough". During his college years, Prince read a lot of books on market economics, but his interest was not limited to economics. During his college years, Prince benefited a lot from several internship experiences. He worked as a national defense analyst for * * * and Congressman Luo Rabac, and also worked as an intern in the White House for half a year under President Bush. After graduating from college, Prince joined the navy's famous special forces "SEALs" 1992. During his service, he was stationed in Haiti, the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia and other regions to perform tasks. 1996, after the death of his father Edgar Prince, Prince left the special forces and retired home, and inherited an auto parts factory from his father. In the 1990s, although the number of American troops stationed overseas was decreasing, American overseas operations were increasing, including the Gulf War, the peacekeeping operations in Somalia and the Kosovo War. In order to make up for the shortage of troops, the US military began to hire more private security companies to carry out combat missions. This change made Prince smell the business opportunity and came up with the idea of setting up a private security company. From 65438 to 0997, Prince sold the auto parts factory, used the money to buy nearly 6000 acres of land in the Great Dismore Marsh in North Carolina, founded Blackwater Security Company, and established the most advanced shooting and security training camp, hence the name "Blackwater". Prince moved all kinds of training facilities he was familiar with during his service in the army here, including not only shooting ranges and training grounds, but also buildings simulating hostage-taking and bunkers occupied by militants. Blackwater Company was founded as a small company with only six employees, but now it has become one of the largest private security companies in the United States, with more than 1000 employees working in Iraq alone. The rapid rise of Blackwater Company is mainly due to war factors. Edit this paragraph | Back to the top, a new force emerges. On June 10, 2000, the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen, which became a turning point in the history of Blackwater Company. Terrorists caused heavy damage to American warships with only a few small boats, and killed 17 American sailors. The US Navy believes that there are major loopholes in the military's security work, so the US Navy finally chose Blackwater, which has complete training facilities, to train SEALs for it, and handed over the task of strengthening the security of warships and personnel to Blackwater. Since then, training tasks from the army and the police have been increasing. In order to accomplish these training tasks, Blackwater has continuously expanded the scope of training camps, opened new training camps in North Carolina, California and Washington State, and rented some training venues in other states. After the "9. 1 1" incident, Blackwater's career jumped to a new level. Bush's war on terrorism has made American private security companies like a duck to water, and Blackwater is one of them. With the deepening of the "anti-terrorism" war in the United States, after the Iraq war, due to the serious shortage of troops, the US military subcontracted many tasks originally undertaken by the military, such as logistics supply, weapon maintenance and security construction, to private security companies. As the advertisement of Blackwater Company said: "We act quickly, with low cost, and will not be entangled in political and logistical problems." Hiring private security companies with excellent equipment and high operational quality can solve many thorny problems for the US government, which can not only overcome the shortage of US troops stationed in Iraq, but also avoid the domestic political pressure caused by excessive casualties of regular troops, and also prevent the government from solving the aftermath problems such as casualties pensions. An American critic once pointed out sharply: "The benefits of private security companies are obvious. With them, there will be no coffins of dead American soldiers covered with stars and stripes in evening TV news reports. " Therefore, the US Department of Defense claims that private security companies are an inseparable part of the entire US armed forces. "Without them, it is almost impossible for the United States to win any war smoothly." Driven by the war bonus, Blackwater's business scope has been expanding, and its customers have expanded to the US Department of Defense, the State Council, Ministry of Communications, federal law enforcement agencies, multinational companies and foreign governments. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of the new situation, Blackwater has also set up five independent branches, including Blackwater Training Center, which is the largest private light weapons and tactical training center in the United States. Including indoor, outdoor and urban simulated combat training areas, with a total area of 28 square kilometers, spanning Camden County and Klaitek County in North Carolina, mainly providing tactical and weapon training for the military, government law enforcement and security departments; Blackwater Target Shooting System Company mainly produces and maintains steel target systems for weapon design; Blackwater Security Consulting Company, located in Moyock, North Carolina, mainly provides professional bodyguards, facilities protection and training for the new Iraqi army and police force; Blackwater Police Dog Training Company mainly trains police dogs to patrol, detect explosives and fight drugs. Crow Development Group is responsible for designing and building the main facilities of Blackwater's training base in North Carolina. At present, Blackwater's personnel in Iraq are mainly composed of Blackwater Security Consulting Company, whose role has been expanding since the Iraq war. Editing this paragraph | Going back to the top is related to the Iraq war. At present, in Iraq, private security companies like Blackwater employ 654.38+200 million people, almost equal to the total number of US troops stationed in Iraq. February 24th, 2007, less than 1 month from the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war. A report by the Associated Press has aroused widespread concern: "The news of more than 3,200 American soldiers killed in the past four years is not comprehensive. More than 800 mercenaries serving the US military were killed and more than 3,000 were injured." Since the United States launched the Iraq war in 2003, it is not uncommon for employees of American private security companies to kill innocent people in Iraq. The shooting of 1 1 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad by the security guards of Blackwater Company of the United States on September 6th this year was only a typical incident that was exposed. At present, in Iraq, there are 6.5438+0.2 million people employed by private security companies such as Blackwater, which is almost equal to the total number of US troops stationed in Iraq. February 24th, 2007, less than 1 month from the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war. A report by the Associated Press has aroused widespread concern: "The news of more than 3,200 American soldiers killed in the past four years is not comprehensive. More than 800 mercenaries serving the US military were killed and more than 3,000 were injured." Since the United States launched the Iraq war in 2003, it is not uncommon for employees of American private security companies to kill innocent people in Iraq. The shooting of 1 1 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad by the security guards of Blackwater Company of the United States on September 6th this year was only a typical incident that was exposed. According to a new investigation report released by the US Congress, Blackwater Security Company has employed 122 people with criminal records as security guards in Iraq in the past three years, accounting for one seventh of the number of security guards it employs in Iraq. According to The New York Times, a new report from the US Congress points out that Blackwater Security Company has been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005. In most of these incidents, Blackwater's bodyguards have no regard for local casualties. The report also accused the State Council of poor supervision of Blackwater, even helping the company to send its "guilty" employees outside Iraq, or instructing the company on how to make peace. It is reported that Blackwater attempted to "appease" the victims' families with money in at least two shooting incidents, and obtained permission from the State Council. Blackwater Private Security Company of the United States, which was recently involved in the shooting incident in Iraq and caused the deaths of many civilians, was sued by a surviving injured person and three families of the deceased in the shooting incident last month on June 5438+1October 65438+1October 0, 2007. The plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington on the same day. They pointed out that Blackwater Company has obtained government contracts worth more than 1 billion dollars since 200 1, but connived at its employees' violation of American laws, which led to the shooting incident in Baghdad in September 16, resulting in the death of more than 10 Iraqi civilians. As the plaintiff's litigation representative, Warren, head of the American NGO Center for Constitutional Rights, said that Blackwater "turned recklessness into profit" and "at the expense of innocent lives". A spokeswoman for Blackwater said that the company had been informed of the lawsuit, but as the shooting incident is still under investigation by the FBI, it is not convenient for the company to express its opinions, but it will try its best to defend itself.