Archive for August, 2009

Bounties: AT&T Ups Bounty to $250,000 For Leads on Fiber Bandits

   Check it out.  If you are interested in investigating this, you will have to talk to AT&T’s investigative unit that is looking for these leads. I am not the point of contact for this stuff, and I am just trying to spread the word.  A quarter million is a pretty nice little bounty, and […]

Disaster Response: The Security Officer and Incident Command

    I read this story below, and it reminded me of how little respect folks have for the security officer of a facility, all the way up until something awful happens.  Something like a terrorist attack or natural disasters or a response to a influenza virus outbreak like Novel Influenza A (Swine Flu). It usually […]

Industry Talk: Company Spotlight–Space Gateway Support and KSC SWAT

     How would you like to be the guy protecting the Space Shuttle and NASA’s employees and facilities? Talk about a big responsibility? lol
     I tell yah, contractors just don’t get any respect these days, yet we are used to protect this country’s space program.  Not to mention all the nuclear facilities that […]

Funny Stuff: Katrina Flashback–Police Looting a Walmart in New Orleans


Industry Talk: No Respect, By Col. Oliver North

    Bravo to Col. Oliver North for having the courage to say what is right.  Contractors are an important part of this war effort, and there has been very little recognition of that fact. Semper Fi. -Matt
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No Respect
Friday , August 28, 2009
By Col. Oliver North
Bagram, Afghanistan
It is amazing how a change of geography can alter […]

Books: The Tactical Trainer: A Few Thoughts On Training And Training Management From A Former Special Operations Soldier, By Msg. Paul R. Howe, U.S. Army Retired

    Add this to your reading list.  Paul Howe has produced another outstanding resource for the military/police/contractor community.  For the record, I have not read this book because it just came out.  If any FJ readers have anything to say about the book, let it rip in the comments section, because I would be very […]

Cool Stuff: Blasting a Brick Wall with a Vortex Cannon


Industry Talk: The Book ‘Beyond Market Forces’ and a Policy Forum with UNWG and Company

The convention does not want to eliminate the use of private companies at all…. -Shaista Shameem
Over a decade ago, Kofi Annan concluded that the world wasn’t ready for privatized peacekeeping. It’s still not. But that shouldn’t mean that we are oblivious to the very important role that many private military and security companies are playing […]

Video: PBS–Once Upon a Coup, The Controversial World of Private Security Contractors


Afghanistan: U.S. Panel on Wartime Contracting to Return to Afghanistan

The commission’s visit to Afghanistan comes as US commanders weigh cutting back on desk jobs and other support staff to free up troops for combat, a move that could require more private contractors to fill the gap.
   I know, why don’t we send the cooks to the frontli….. oh, my bad, the cooks are all […]