Position: Security Shift Supervisor (FN)
Job Order ID 2511 Country Djibouti
Employment Type Contract Province/State N/A
City Djibouti (Camp Lemonier) Registered Date 13 May 08
 
Job Function
 
Provides oversight and supervision/guidance to sub-contract local security providers in support of U.S. military Conducts patrol and loss prevention activity regarding PAE personnel and property Investigates property loss and other criminal activity involving PAE personnel and property Works various shifts to accomplish assigned duties Serves as a point of contact for PAE staff and employees regarding security issues and concerns Maintains awareness of open source information regarding criminal and terrorist related activities within the Area of Operations
Job Requirement
 
  Years of Relevant Experience: 5+ years of police or military security Military or police training regarding security functions and procedures, preferably at supervisor level Training in weapons, personal self defense and emergency reaction procedures Basic medical training as first responder Knowledge of Radio communications process Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite programs Investigation and report writing background Excellent interpersonal relationship skills with multi-cultural work force and peers Valid driver’s license Verified lack of criminal record High School diploma required, Bachelors degree preferred
 
http://www.mindscope.com/paegov03055cw/aspx/JobDetails.aspx?Job_ID=2511
 

    I particularly liked the last sentence in this story.  I would certainly like to see that materialize and Africa needs all the help it can get.  If you were to just look at the Sudan, you could see that if a external security force, there to keep the peace, would have saved lives.  Versus Hollywood’s approach of throw money and celebrities at the problem, yet do nothing to actually stop the crime.  Like in Iraq, it takes boots on the ground, to keep the peace, and the Private Military Industry can provide that service. -Head Jundi   

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Dogs of War: Back to Africa

Published: May 30, 2008 at 5:40 PM

By DAVID ISENBERG

WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) — Where does the future lie for the private military industry? Those who watch the industry closely have noted it tends to migrate periodically. In the beginning, mirroring human evolution, the industry emerged in Africa. The progenitor for many of today’s private security firms was the South Africa-based Executive Outcomes, which fought in Angola and Sierra Leone. (Incidentally, those truly interested in what this legendary firm did and how it worked should read the book published last year, “Executive Outcomes: Against All Odds,” by its founder, Eben Barlow.) After that, companies like U.S.-based Military Professional Resources Inc. worked in the Balkans, first for Croatia and then for Bosnia. And after that came Iraq, the mother of all private military contracting opportunities. But someday, regardless of who wins the presidential election in November, even Iraq is going to draw to a close.

U.S. Security Care, Inc of Blue Bell (Philadelphia), PA currently has the following positions immediately available:

Detail Leader (DL)
$90,000.00+ annual salary, dependent upon qualifications and experience.
DL requires a minimum of five (5) years protective experience, with at least three (3) years in a leadership/management capacity and at least two (2) years on a family detail with children. Must have demonstrated ability to manage a large protective and residential security detail. Requires extensive logistical planning and coordination of high tempo ground, rotary wing and private jet travel on a regional, domestic and international basis. Knowledge of and operational experience in the NYC area is highly desirable.

Executive Protection (EP) Agent (three (3) positions open)
$60,000.00+ annual salary, dependent upon qualifications and experience.
Compensation is based on forty-hour base work week; time exceeding base hours compensated at time and a half equivalent hourly rate.
EP Agent requires a minimum of three (3) years protective experience, preferably with at least one (1) year on a family detail with pre-teen/teen children.

    This story pisses me off.  I was on one site, where faulty wiring caused a fire in one of the trailers we were using.  This is all too common over there, and it absolutely sucks that this many guys have died from such an idiotic thing.  I certainly hope some kind of building standard is applied to the construction of these units, after congress investigates. 

    The problem, is you have the lowest bidder building these things, and a lack of regulation on their construction.  The components of these things are made with substandard parts, and assembled by low end workers. 

     Furthermore, the guys that repair these things, are usually not certified electricians.  The guys that repair these things, are usually some Filipino dude, that raised his hand when someone asked if they could repair any electronics.  Now I have seen these guys do incredible work, with the bare necessities, just to get things working again.  But if they are not repairing it to some code or standard, then you could totally see how things could get screwed up.  Something to watch, and definitely keep a heads up over there in the showers and trailers. -Head Jundi 

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Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret, died in his shower January 2.
 
   

  Green Beret electrocuted in shower on Iraq base

Story Highlights

• At least 12 U.S. troops have been electrocuted in Iraq from wiring problems
• Ryan Maseth, 24, died January 2 while taking a shower on base
• “I truly couldn’t believe he would be electrocuted,” his mom says
• Defense Department inspector general, Congress launch investigation
  By Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein

CNN Special Investigations Unit

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) — A highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died a painful death in Iraq this year. He died not on the battlefield. He died in what should have been one of the safest spots in Iraq: on a U.S. base, in his bathroom.

Executive Protection Specialist-3669
Description
Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education, and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill Education, Business Week and J.D. Power and Associates.  The corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries.  Sales in 2006 were 6.3 billion.
 
The Global Corporate Security department is seeking an Executive Protection Specialist.  This position is accountable to provide executive protection for the Chairman, Chairman Emeritus and / or Senior Executives as directed and recommend appropriate security where needed.
 
Essential accountabilities will include, but are not limited to:
 
· Assist the Senior Manager, Protective Services with all domestic and international travel arrangements for select senior executives and be available to travel as needed and on short notice if necessary.                                                              
· Drive the Chairman, Chairman Emeritus and Senior Executives to and from their respective residences to Corporate Headquarters and to and from other locations as directed.
· Be aware of safety and security conditions at events and functions and provide the appropriate level of security for the Chairman, Chairman Emeritus and Senior Executives. Maintain a current listing of all contacts at the locations that they frequently travel to.
· Provide senior leadership of the Corporate Security Department with the daily itineraries of the Chairman, Chairman Emeritus and Senior Executives to whom you are assigned.
· Assist in other areas of the Corporate Security Department as required.
· Conduct site security surveys and perform comprehensive security advance operations as needed.
· Maintain the company executive vehicles and insure accurate records are kept for purposes of insurance and preventative maintenance.
· Conduct and/or assist with security investigations as directed.
· Be fully cognizant of and participate in the following Corporate Security Department programs and initiatives, Protective Intelligence, Threat Assessment and Security Awareness.
· Be able to work a regularly scheduled 35 hour flexible work week that may be adjusted by Global Corporate Security Management as to perform the required duties as directed.

Security Detail Supervisor

Job ID: 2005 Location: Kabul, Afghanistan 
Category: Security  Position Type: Contract 
Contract Name: Weapons Removal and Abatement  Contract Length: 
Salary: Open  Security Clearance: 
Status (definition):  

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Company Description
 
Position Description
DynCorp International (DI) has an opportunity for a Security Detail Supervisor. The position is located in Afghanistan in support of the U.S. Department of State’s Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA) Program. This position is currently available.

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Position Overview and Primary Responsibilities:

The Security Detail Supervisor provides supervision and oversight of security forces providing protection for an international staff supporting the U.S. Department of State (DoS) Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA) Program throughout Afghanistan. He/she will report to a Task Order Project Manager (TOPM) and be prepared to oversee the following areas: force protection of the WRA Team; supervision, training and oversight of guard and security forces composed of both Third Country Nationals, as well as indigenous personnel; ensuring security forces are capable of performing both static security, as well as convoy personnel security details; and security and maintenance of all WRA weapons, as well as associated equipment and accessories.

Specific Requirements:

• Provide supervision, training and oversight of approximately of 15 Ghurka and 13 Afghan security personnel.
• Supervise static installation security.
• Supervise convoy and personnel security details.
• Proficient in the use, care and maintenance of the following weapons: M4 carbine, M9 pistol, and AK series assault rifles.
• Develop appropriate standard operating procedures to ensure that all security operations are executed effectively and within the confines of the WRA contract.
• Develop training plans to ensure that members of the WRA team remain cognizant of the rules for the use of force, and proficient with their assigned weapons.
• Collect, analyze and disseminate appropriate threat and security-related information to allow WRA team members to assess the risk to their daily operations.
• Monitor radio communications and other surveillance and detection equipment.
• Manage access control to WRA sites.

      This one is for all my Canadian readers.  Sounds like an interesting little opportunity, and you will have to talk with Steve about this, to find out more.  And on a side note, if you haven’t done so already, I would advise signing on with the Blackice Security group.  Steve is always sending out jobs that he get’s on his desk, and the service is free. -Head Jundi

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I may be in need of 1-2 full time Canadian EP agents (unarmed), properly licensed to work in Canada. The specific location will be in Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada. If you are a trained EP guy, and have whatever licensing or what you need to legally provide protection duties in Ontario please send me a note. If someone wants to educate me as to the licensing requirements if any – feel free.

Thank you,

Steven Collins
President

Black Ice Security Services, Inc.
(703) 591-4700 Office
(775) 248-2499 Private Fax
VA License: 11-2625 DC License: 1018
keithcross @ blackicesecurity.com

www.blackicesecurity.com

     This was an awesome little article about the state of affairs of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and how they are losing there.  Our guys have done such an awesome job over there, and my hats off to them.  Next stop, Pakistan, so we can slay that booger eater Osama Bin Laden. -Head Jundi 

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Al Qaeda Discusses Losing Iraq
May 27, 2008:  Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about “why we lost in Iraq.” Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several of these Arab language sites. Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media. According to al Qaeda, their collapse in Iraq was steep and catastrophic. According to their stats, in late 2006, al Qaeda was responsible for 60 percent of the terrorist attacks, and nearly all the ones that involved killing a lot of civilians. The rest of the violence was carried out by Iraqi Sunni Arab groups, who were trying in vain to scare the Americans out of the country.
 

Today, al Qaeda has been shattered, with most of its leadership and foot soldiers dead, captured or moved from Iraq. As a result, al Qaeda attacks have declined more than 90 percent. Worse, most of their Iraqi Sunni Arab allies have turned on them,  or simply quit. This “betrayal” is handled carefully on the terrorist web sites, for it is seen as both shameful, and perhaps recoverable.

This defeat was not as sudden as it appeared to be, and some Islamic terrorist web sites have been discussing the problem for several years. The primary cause has been  Moslems killed as a side effect of attacks on infidel troops, Iraqi security forces and non-Sunnis. Al Qaeda plays down the impact of this, calling the Moslem victims “involuntary martyrs.” But that’s a minority opinion. Most Moslems, and many other Islamic terrorists, see this as a surefire way to turn the Moslem population against the Islamic radicals. That’s what happened earlier in Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt and many other places. It’s really got nothing to do with religion. The phenomenon hits non-Islamic terrorists as well (like the Irish IRA and the Basque ETA).

The senior al Qaeda leadership saw the problem, and tried to convince the “Al Qaeda In Iraq” leadership to cool it. That didn’t work. As early as 2004, some Sunni Arabs were turning on al Qaeda because of the “involuntary martyrs” problem. The many dead Shia Arab civilians led to a major terror campaign by the Shia majority. They controlled the government, had the Americans covering their backs, and soon half the Sunni Arab population were refugees.

Meanwhile, the “Al Qaeda In Iraq” leadership was out of control. Most of these guys are really out there, at least in terms of fanaticism and extremism. This led to another fatal error. They declared the establishment of  the “Islamic State of Iraq” in late 2006. This was an act of bravado, and touted as the first step in the re-establishment of the caliphate (a global Islamic state, ruled over by God’s representative on earth, the caliph.) The caliphate has been a fiction for over a thousand years. Early on, the Islamic world was split by ethnic and national differences, and the first caliphate fell apart after a few centuries.  Various rulers have claimed the title over the centuries, but since 1924, when the Turks gave it up (after four centuries), no one of any stature has taken it up. So when al Qaeda “elected” a nobody as the emir of the “Islamic State of Iraq”, and talked about this being the foundation of the new caliphate, even many pro-al Qaeda Moslems were aghast. When al Qaeda could not, in 2007, exercise any real control over the parts of Iraq they claimed as part of the new Islamic State, it was the last straw. The key supporters, battered by increasingly effective American and Iraqi attacks, dropped their support for al Qaeda, and the terrorist organization got stomped to bits by the “surge offensive” of last year. The final insult was delivered by the former Iraqi Sunni Arab allies, who quickly switched sides, and sometimes even worked with the Americans (more so than the Shia dominated Iraqi security forces) to hunt down and kill al Qaeda operators.
If you can read Arabic, you can easily find these pro-terrorism sites, and see for yourself how al Qaeda is trying to explain its own destruction to its remaining supporters. While it’s common to assume the Information War has been going against the West, this was not the case when you checked with what was going on inside the enemy camp.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20080527.aspx

     To me, when I think of Memorial Day, I think of the context at which it was initiated.  At the end of the Civil War, our country was a mess and we lost thousands during that war.  I can’t even fathom how many we lost, and the kind of destruction this country endured.    

    I also think about the comrades I have lost in this current war and in wars past, and it is a somber time.  My remembrance is private and my own deal, and I think a lot of guys feel the same out there on how they view this day.  That is all I have to say about it.  -Head Jundi 

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HEADQUARTERS GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
General Orders No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, “of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion.” What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from hishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.
It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.
By order of

JOHN A. LOGAN,
Commander-in-Chief

N.P. CHIPMAN,
Adjutant General

Official:
WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G.

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In Flanders Fields
John McCrae, 1915.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.