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Last but not least, when you see tragic mistakes made on the battlefield it is more often than not the fault of the institution than the individual. In this case the fault of the company.
Let’s face it security firms are corporations and they are there to make money…bottom line. Sometime these corporate types with their number crunchers cut corners. You see it all the time throughout the business world. How to trim-up the bottom line to make it look good to the share holders? It is usually through payroll or working with the bare minimum employees at any given time.
In the case of the corporate security suites it maybe no training budget, it maybe in the form of the contractors having to supply their own weapons and ammo, it maybe hiring that out of shape 40 year old ex Navy Seal who hasn’t operated in 15 years, or it could be hiring anyone who can pass a background check. Many times contractors are overworked. I remember days of working 24 hours on 6 off and 34 hours on again. Compounded by the fact that many companies could give a rats ass about their contractors is a recipe for potential problems.
Still disasters are far and few and most contractors are good human beings who care about the people (Iraqis), and feel awful when they see senseless killing or when they make a mistake.
If it weren’t for the private companies supplying security services the military would have to go to the draft, there just aren’t enough combat troops to do it all. So if you are thankful for not having the draft…then you need to come to terms with the fact that we need contractors filling the void.
Let’s face it security firms are corporations and they are there to make money…bottom line. Sometime these corporate types with their number crunchers cut corners. You see it all the time throughout the business world. How to trim-up the bottom line to make it look good to the share holders? It is usually through payroll or working with the bare minimum employees at any given time.
In the case of the corporate security suites it maybe no training budget, it maybe in the form of the contractors having to supply their own weapons and ammo, it maybe hiring that out of shape 40 year old ex Navy Seal who hasn’t operated in 15 years, or it could be hiring anyone who can pass a background check. Many times contractors are overworked. I remember days of working 24 hours on 6 off and 34 hours on again. Compounded by the fact that many companies could give a rats ass about their contractors is a recipe for potential problems.
Still disasters are far and few and most contractors are good human beings who care about the people (Iraqis), and feel awful when they see senseless killing or when they make a mistake.
If it weren’t for the private companies supplying security services the military would have to go to the draft, there just aren’t enough combat troops to do it all. So if you are thankful for not having the draft…then you need to come to terms with the fact that we need contractors filling the void.
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