This is interesting.  This is the first time I have ever seen jewelry offered up for security contractors.  Personally, I don’t like wearing rings, but for some guys out there, this means a lot.  Especially if you are proud of your service as a contractor. Personally, I like a nice watch, like a Rolex or something.  I just thought the cross in the center of the ring was interesting, and had certain meaning. 

     The whole Knights Templar thing with the ’shield and cross’, is a pretty common theme on patches and t-shirts.  So is eating bacon and pork.  Heck, I have even seen the shield and cross marked on helmets and drawn on the shields on gun tubs.  It’s not that contractors are particularly religious, it’s just that we are up against an enemy that is deadly religious and has been conducting their own crusade, and the KT cross is a symbol of mocking that religious extremism by using another form of religious extremism.  

     Of course no one really gives a crap about that stuff with our group, they just do it for the psychological edge, and it helps you get through the day.  I am not defending or putting it down.  That’s just how it is over there, and only those that have done any time over there, know what I mean.

      Then of course if you are religious, then that cross can be a good thing to have on you.  Just as long as you aren’t going on your own personal crusade and trying to convert or kill the masses. LOL  But like they say, there are no atheists in foxholes, and security contractors are no different than anyone else over there, in that regard.    

     The other little known fact that relates to this ring, is that’ Templar’ was a common call sign over there, and that is with all the companies, and not just with the WPPS companies.  -Head Jundi   

WPPS ring, 14K Gold

WPPS ring, Sterling Silver

The WPPS Ring

This ring was made in recognition and appreciation of the Worldwide Personal Protective Services.  WPPS is a program under the U.S. diplomatic effort to reconstruct Iraq and Afghanistan after the commencement of the War on Terrorism . It employs honorably United States discharged military and law enforcement citizens in a range of protection services for US personnel and facilities abroad.

The Templar Cross and shield represents Christianity and the protection it has offered to a country that has been attacked by threats domestic and international. The Eagle stands for Freedom and the term: “Armis Exposcere Pacem” is Latin for ‘They demand Peace through Force of Arms’. This ring serves as a symbol to honor and sacrifices many have given in the performance of their duties. This is the only ring in our collection made from computer-generated technology.

WPPS Ring Pricing

Heavy Sterling Silver $276

10K Yellow Gold $859

14K White or Yellow Gold $1230

18K White or Yellow Gold $1670

Company Website

     Thanks to Doug, for sending me this interesting little article.  The Israelis have always been known for being unconventional and thinking outside of the box, and this certainly is one of those instances.  Using a suppressed .22 caliber rifle for riot control?  Shooting the leaders in the legs with a suppressed .22?  Interesting tactic.  It kind of makes our use of ‘pepper balls’ and ‘bean bag shot shells’ seem wimpy or something?

     All I could think of, while reading this, was using this thing to shoot varmints back home.  But to use it as a less than lethal weapon is certainly interesting.  I have to say, that I am not a sniper or law enforcement or even special forces, so I really could not give a professional opinion on this one way or the other.  I can say a weapon like this has it’s place, and in the right hands, can be a solution to a problem. -Head Jundi 

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Ruger 10/22 Suppressed Sniper Rifle 

  Sniper Weapons System - from left to right Ruger 10/22 suppressed, IMI Galil Sniper Rifle and a Mauser 86SR.  The Ruger 10/22 is a fully suppressed 0.22 caliber semi auto sniper rifle with a 10 rounds rotary magazine.

In 1987, the Intifada - the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli regime in the Occupied Territories - broke out, and involved mass violent clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians protestors. As a result, the Israeli security forces needed a weapon with a more potent firepower then the standard riot control metal covered rubber round, but at the same time less lethal then the standard issue 5.56 mm round of the M16/Galil assault rifles. So the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) searched for a 0.22 caliber accurate rifle that will be used to take out the key protest leaders by shooting them in the legs.

The Ruger 10/22, fitted with a X4 day optic, a full length suppressor and a Harris bipod was selected for this role and was due to be issued to all infantry oriented units, including both special and conventional forces. However, as often happens in the shoestring budget IDF, financial problems prevented the weapon’s mass distribution, and it was mainly issued to Special Forces (SF) units. Moreover, instead of using the rifle as a riot control weapon, as originally intended, the Israeli SF deployed the Ruger 10/22 more as a “Hush Puppy” weapon used to silently and effectively eliminate disturbing dogs prior to operations.

In the recent Israeli-Palestinian clashes began in 2000, the Ruger resumes it’s original role as a less lethal riot control weapon. However, it’s usage in this role was rather controversial this time. After several incidents involving the death of Palestinians by the Ruger fire, the IDF conducted a field experiment in the Ruger at the IDF Sniper School in Mitkan Adam under the supervision of the IDF Judge Advocate General (JAG). The test showed that the Ruger was more lethal then thought especially in upper body injuries. Also, since it’s suppressed and was considered less lethal by the troops, the soldiers were much more likely to use the Ruger loosely then intended.

As a result of this test, the JAG reclassified the Ruger as a lethal weapon. As a lethal weapon, the usage of the Ruger in riot control is much more limited today. In the IDF Center Command it was completely prohibited to use and the IDF South Command it’s deployment was cut down dramatically.

Civilian sniper with the Ruger 10/22 sniper rifle (right), Designated Marksman (middle) and a spotter (left) during the Israeli-Palestinian clashes in the Occupied Territories May 2000.

Operator armed with the Ruger 10/22 Suppressed sniper rifle during the Israeli-Palestinian clashes in the Occupied Territories, October 2000. 

Story Here

   It just doesn’t get any funnier than this.  What is it about the movie Predator and politics?  And get this, Sonny was a porn star at one point in his career and also served some time in federal prison, on top of being an eighties action star! LOL  If you check out his website, you will get quite shock, and also see the multitude of cheesy action films he was in.  Enjoy.  -Head Jundi 

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Actor runs for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as Libertarian

June 26th, 2008 

In a story that is getting picked up by many newspapers and websites, the AP reports Sonny Landham, who “played Billy Bear in ‘48 Hours’ and was killed by an alien in ‘Predator,’” is running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as a Libertarian. Landham, “known for his powerful physique, booming voice and his American Indian heritage,” says he is “serious about his longshot bid, because too many politicians are indifferent to voters’ problems.”

Landham “must collect at least 5,000 valid petition signatures by August 12,” and Kentucky LP Chairman Ken Moellman “believes Landham will make it.” However, the AP says Landham’s appearance in adult films could haunt his campaign. Additionally, Landham “served more than 2 1/2 years in federal prison after being convicted of making threatening and obscene phone calls to his ex-wife. The conviction was thrown out by a federal appeals court that found he committed no crime.”

If Landham scores an upset victory, he would be the third member of the cast of “Predator” elected to major public office, following Govs. Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Be sure to check out his website. It is beyond funny. Next, will be an onslaught of Billy Bear porn.

http://www.sonnylandham.com/

   This little guy has been around for awhile, but I figured I would give it some attention on FJ.  I own one, and they are awesome.  If you shoot a lot, this little device will save your fingers and make loading and unloading magazines way easier and faster.  

    It is great for contracting too.  Especially if you have to unload all of your truck magazines before a mission, so you can inspect and clean them, and then reload them fast so you can focus on other stuff.  A little gadget like this, can make those big tasks way easier and certainly faster.  

   Butler Creek also makes a pistol LULA, and that works pretty good too.  It takes a little more getting used to though, but will still save your fingers and cut down on loading time, if you have to load a ton of magazines.  Good piece of gear.  -Head Jundi   

Butler Creek Website 

Magazine loader & unloader (US Patent 6,810,616)

The LULA™ loader & unloader is a military quality personal magazine loader and unloader. It facilitates both loading of loose rounds into a magazine and unloading them out of the magazine. It does so fast, safely, comfortably and painlessly. Usable for tens-of-thousands rounds.

AR-15 / M-16  LULA™ loader is made to fit plastic and metal 5.56mm (.223rem) AR-15 / M-16 type magazines, as:

• USGI mags. (NATO STANAG 4179) 

• Thermold

• Orlite

• CMAG (both loads and unloads !)

Department: Department Of Agriculture

Agency: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture

Sub Agency: Homeland Security Office

Job Announcement Number:

OSEC-08-167A

Security Specialist (Special Agent of Executive Protection Operations)

Salary Range: 58,206.00 - 107,854.00 USD per year

Open Period: Tuesday, June 24, 2008

to Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Series & Grade: GS-0080-11/13

Position Information: Full-Time  Permanent

Promotion Potential: 13

Duty Locations: 0001 vacancies - Washington, DC

Who May Be Considered:

Applications will be accepted from United States citizens and nationals.

Job Summary:

This position is located in the Office of the Secretary, Homeland Security Office (HL), and reports to the Supervisory Protection Specialist (Special Agent-in-Charge) and Senior Protection Specialist (Deputy Special Agent-in-Charge) for Executive Protection Operations.  The incumbent serves as a special agent and participates in coordinating security, communications, transportation, accommodation and logistics requirements for the Secretary of Agriculture as well as for accompanying dignitaries or family, as appropriate, to assure the personal safety of the protectee and his party at all times during any emergencies which may arise, regardless of the physical location of the protectee.

    So, I had to post this, because this is certainly funny stuff and FJ material. It must be getting slow for the reporters over there or something? LOL. -Head Jundi

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Lara Logan

NEWS BABE’S ‘IRAQI TRYST’

IN-BEDDED REPORTER ‘TOOK MY HUBBY’

By TODD VENEZIA

BATTLE OF THE SEXES: “60 Minutes” star Lara Logan, seen riding a tank in Iraq, allegedly had two paramours at once - one of whom, CNN’s Michael Ware, brawled over her honor, a source said.

Last updated: 8:54 am

June 26, 2008

Sexy CBS siren Lara Logan spent her days covering the heat of the Iraq war - but that was nothing compared to the heat of her nights.

The “60 Minutes” reporter and former swimsuit model apparently courted two beaus while she was in Baghdad, and has been labeled a homewrecker for allegedly destroying the marriage of a civilian contractor there, sources said.

Passions got so hot in the combat zone that one of her lovers, Joe Burkett, brawled in a Baghdad “safe house” with her other paramour, CNN war reporter Michael Ware, a source said.

The wife of Burkett, a US Embassy worker, claims the sultry 37-year-old correspondent seduced him while bullets flew overhead.

Burkett’s wife, Kimberly, also accuses Logan of teaming up with him to take her 3-year-old daughter away, according to the source.

A close pal of Logan, who confirmed the allegations to The Post, said Burkett’s marriage to Kimberly was already finished six months before they sparked up a relationship.

“She is not the cause of their divorce,” the friend told The Post yesterday.

“It was going to happen.”

The pal also said Logan was particularly hurt by the comments because she had met Kimberly Burkett and thought the two were “friendly.”

Kimberly filed for divorce from her husband in January in a court near their hometown of Fredericksburg, Texas.

The husband, 36, and wife, 32, are now battling over custody of toddler Ashley.

Pals of Logan said that the divorce attorney is just grandstanding by dragging the rising television star into the Texas couple’s split.

“Lara is not part of their divorce proceedings,” a friend said.

“The simple truth is that this was a marriage that was breaking up. And that’s the bottom line.”

As for the other claims, pals admitted that Logan had a one-time fling with CNN reporter Ware - but denied that there was any sort of fight between him and Burkett in Baghdad.

“There was no screaming match,” the pal said.

Tale of the love fight first broke on the freerepublic.com in December.

The scandal comes just as the former model’s journalistic career is starting to skyrocket.

It’s a stunning turn of events for the respected journalist, who once told The Washington Post that she “has no social life.”

Yesterday, CBS announced, without a hint of irony, that she was given a new Washington assignment as chief foreign-affairs correspondent. She joined the network in 2002 and became a “60 Minutes” correspondent in 2006.

The network touted her as the only American reporter who was in Baghdad when the United States invaded in 2003.

Logan was born in Durban, South Africa. She has been going through a divorce from her husband of nine years, Jason Siemon, a former European-league basketball player.

“That is a very sad thing for Lara,” a pal said.

Michael Ware

Executive Protection Specialist – 21997

We believe in thinking space. Room to create. Radical ideas. And if ever we depart from that culture, we’ll start over.

Our market is complex, but hp works simple: our structure is straightforward, grouping people and their skills in business or product sectors where they’ll stimulate each other and work best together.

job description

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Ensure security services are delivered worldwide consistent with HP Global Security Organization’s policies and procedures, in a highly professional manner. Manage the executive protection team, ensuring global standardization in delivery of EP services despite unique, disruptive or changing local conditions. Close collaboration and seamless partnership with internal partners and colleagues is a must. Establish and maintain and working relationships fellow employees and external vendor resources while meeting critical timetables and achieving flawless delivery. Duties include conducting advance site surveys, logistical coordination, and preparation of written threat assessments, physical surveys, policy development, and ongoing program management. As a subject matter expert, convey focused and concise security briefings to employee groups, including to senior executive management. Create timely and succinct reports or presentations as directed using standard MS applications (excel, word, PowerPoint, etc.) Must be willing to travel extensive worldwide, often on short notice and occasionally to remote locations.

   For me, this was an interesting story, about a little known guy that was hugely responsible for today’s Counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq.  Another example of ideas saving the day, and luckily reaching all the right people to become reality.  We are truly grateful for people like Kilcullen and others in the past, like Boyd, who had the courage to present a different idea and change the culture and thought process from the inside out.  I just wish the higher command could have implemented these ideas from the beginning, when the signs were totally pointing towards the obvious.  Either way, I am glad we are on the right track now.  -Head Jundi 

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 David Kilcullen

The New Yorker

Knowing the Enemy

Can social scientists redefine the “war on terror”?

by George Packer 

December 18, 2006

In 1993, a young captain in the Australian Army named David Kilcullen was living among villagers in West Java, as part of an immersion program in the Indonesian language. One day, he visited a local military museum that contained a display about Indonesia’s war, during the nineteen-fifties and sixties, against a separatist Muslim insurgency movement called Darul Islam. “I had never heard of this conflict,” Kilcullen told me recently. “It’s hardly known in the West. The Indonesian government won, hands down. And I was fascinated by how it managed to pull off such a successful counterinsurgency campaign.”

Kilcullen, the son of two left-leaning academics, had studied counterinsurgency as a cadet at Duntroon, the Australian West Point, and he decided to pursue a doctorate in political anthropology at the University of New South Wales. He chose as his dissertation subject the Darul Islam conflict, conducting research over tea with former guerrillas while continuing to serve in the Australian Army. The rebel movement, he said, was bigger than the Malayan Emergency—the twelve-year Communist revolt against British rule, which was finally put down in 1960, and which has become a major point of reference in the military doctrine of counterinsurgency. During the years that Kilcullen worked on his dissertation, two events in Indonesia deeply affected his thinking. The first was the rise—in the same region that had given birth to Darul Islam, and among some of the same families—of a more extreme Islamist movement called Jemaah Islamiya, which became a Southeast Asian affiliate of Al Qaeda. The second was East Timor’s successful struggle for independence from Indonesia. Kilcullen witnessed the former as he was carrying out his field work; he participated in the latter as an infantry-company commander in a United Nations intervention force. The experiences shaped the conclusions about counter-insurgency in his dissertation, which he finished in 2001, just as a new war was about to begin.

 Dynsec Group Inc is recruiting for Executive Protection Officers, for the upcoming placement of two to three (2-3) candidates on a short term contract in Spain.

Title/Description:

Executive Protection - PES, SAP, RST and Maritime Functions.

Job Location: Spain

Requirements:

1. Prior Training and actual Executive Protection experience (Private-Law Enforcement-Armed Forces etc)

2. Fluent in Spanish and with good country knowledge (Spanish citizenship preferred)

3. License to work as an Executive Protection Officer and firearms license for concealed Carry preferred

4. Valid Driver’s License and Passport (cross border travel can be expected)

5. Clean Criminal Record and previous Employment References

6. Experience with maritime operations and licences for sailing and PADI/NAUI diving license

Payment and Terms:

1. Information regarding payment terms and insurances coverage will be provided to suitable applicants only.

2. Basic accommodation close to or at the client’s “residence” will be provided.

Please, only apply for this contract if you fulfill the requirements stated above. Send your CV/Resume and full contact information to info@dynsecgroup.com

Please be advised that we cannot and will not reply to all applicants on a personal basis. Do not apply if you don’t have the qualifications.

Dan Sommer - Senior Advisor at Dynsec Group Inc.

 - dan.sommer@dynsecgroup.com

Company Website 

     A couple of things about this job.  This company is flying this as a security guard/executive protection job.  With that said, it sounds like they want to hire guys, that are willing to go anywhere they want you.  So I really can’t say that this will be a pure EP type job.  It sounds like a jack of all trades type of job, with a slight emphasis on executive protection type work.  I do not know how much they are paying either, so job seeker beware.  The best thing to do is to just call the security manager or write them.  Below, I have posted the job as it stands on their website and how they are selling it on one of the various job boards out there. -Head Jundi

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SECURITY Gallo Winery Security Officer Executive Protection Under minimum supervision, monitors and patrols assigned areas to observe and protect property while adhering to all established Company and department policies and procedures. Must communicate professionally, respectfully and tactfully in both written and oral forms in order to establish and maintain effective relationships in the performance of required duties. Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, environmental and safety regulatory considerations. Must maintain a Concealed Weapons permit from the County Sheriffs Department if required; and an Exposed Weapons permit form the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. Required to work nights, weekends and holidays as part of a rotating shift and overtime if necessary. Must have the physical ability to protect the principle. Prior law enforcement experience preferred. To apply please visit our careers page at www.gallo.com, Gallo is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO/AA/M/F/D/V

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Job Title: SECURITY GUARD 1-UNARMED

City: Modesto

State: CA

Country: USA

Reference: 402873

Full Time/Part Time

Full-Time

Job Description

SUMMARY

Under immediate supervision, monitors and patrols assigned areas to observe and protect Company assets while adhering to all established Company and department policies and procedures.  This is an entry level trainee position eligible to move to Security Guard 2 level after successful completion of SG2 testing at 6 months.  Guards will be allowed three attempts to pass.  A third failed attempt will result in discharge from the Company.