Maritime Security Managers to work offshore in West Africa
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Maritime Special Interdiction Teams (SF types only)-Horn of Africa and Middle East
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The hostages taken part was something I just found out through other news. This is ongoing, and the story is evolving. It sounds a lot like last summer’s attack, and they are saying this Indian Mujahadeen. The attacks are focused on Westerners. Some reports are even saying 40 are dead, and there are several attacks going on simultaneously. -Head Jundi
Edit: At least 78 dead according to Indian media, Decan Mujahadeen are claiming responsibility.
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Mumbai Shootings, Grenade Attacks Kill at Least 16 (Update1)
By Stephen Foxwell and Sumit Sharma
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Grenade and gun attacks erupted today across Mumbai, India’s financial capital, killing 16 and injuring at least 25, television broadcasts said. Shots were reported near luxury hotels and one of the city’s main rail stations.
Police ringed the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, Trident and Oberoi hotels and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in the south of the city, NDTV reported. Two terrorists were said to be inside the Trident Hotel, in the financial district of Nariman Point, Times TV said.
“Some terrorist incidents are happening, some grenades were lobbed,” A.N. Roy, director general of police for Maharashtra state, said in a telephone interview. “Give us some time to get a clearer picture.”
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Ahhhh, this video of the CASA 212 below reminded me of my smokejumper days. We used the same aircraft for smokejumper operations, and they are a good aircraft for parachuting and paracargo work. We would dump out paracargo at about 450 to 500 AGL, depending on terrain and weather conditions. Our pilots were awesome at getting bundles onto mountain top ridges, or little meadows.
I also got to assist in kicking cargo as a jumper. There is a lot involved with these types of operations, and we definitely took it seriously. If you get a bundle that does not deploy because of a poorly packed cargo chute, or it hangs up in the door and tears apart the tail of the aircraft, then you could be in a world of hurt. As a jumper, a big portion of my work during the off season was dedicated to repairing cargo chutes, or packing them.
The other aspect of paracargo that doesn’t get much mention is climbing trees for the stuff. You haven’t lived until you had to climb a 200 ft fir tree rocking back and forth in the wind, just to retrieve cargo or retrieve your parachute after a tree landing. In the aircraft, we would drop tree climbing equipment for such missions.
One thing I am surprised at, is why the military doesn’t use it’s fleet of C-23 Sherpas for these kinds of operations? They are just a little bit bigger than CASA 212’s, and you can get a ramp kit for them, so you can kick out cargo out of the tail. I called them flying ‘Winnebagos’ because of their box-like appearance. I think the military uses them to haul around jet engines or something.
In the jumpers we used a bunch of different aircraft to include the Dornier 228 202, Douglas DC-3, and the DH-600 series Twin Otter. The Twin Otter was probably the best all around aircraft for smokejumper operations. Although jumping out of that DC-3 is cool too. The DC-3’s we used were the same ones used during WW2. Obviously the newer ones are highly upgraded, but it is literally the same aircraft, because the airlogs on most of these craft go back that far! It is a solid aircraft and truly an honor to jump out of it. -Head Jundi
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An air to air right side view of a 10th Military Airlift Squadron C-23A Sherpa aircraft. In the background is a castle.
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US Department of State
Arlington, VA
Date Posted: 11/21/08
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Somali piracy offers huge new market for private security
Agence France-Presse | 11/21/2008 10:08 PM
NAIROBI - Protecting ships in Somalia’s pirate-infested waters could be the
next big thing for the world’s ever-growing private security industry but
the legalities are complex, experts said Friday.
Last week’s hijacking of a Saudi super-tanker worth a quarter of a billion
dollars has raised the issue of onboard security for the world’s merchant
fleet, which carries an estimated 90 percent of the planet’s traded goods.
Boy, talk about cool? I am sure the membership for this thing costs a pretty penny too. Kudos to MVM for hooking up a quality facility like this. -Head Jundi
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Silver Eagle Group to Unveil Nation’s Largest Indoor Training Facility & Private Club in Ashburn, Va; Free Public Training, Demonstrations and Tours Dec. 6 - 7
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The Silver Eagle Group Training Facility & Private Club - a first-of-its-kind venue offering the most comprehensive self-defense education and elite training in the nation - all housed in a luxurious, amenity-filled environment - will celebrate its opening with free training, demonstrations and public tours December 6-7 at its Ashburn, Va., location on 44620 Guilford Drive in the Beaumeade Industrial Park.
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I got a chance to read through this book at Barnes and Noble the other day. I am not a Revolutionary War history buff or anything, but as a security contractor, I was certainly intrigued. If Max Weber was to read this book, he would have ‘crapped nickels’. LOL
Bottom line, thanks to these privateers or private naval companies, we were able to fight the British on the high seas. And guess what, we made fighting the British a profitable venture for these PNC’s through ‘legalized piracy’. Crazy. Can you imagine if the US gave a company like Blackwater a ‘letter of marque‘ and said ‘we can’t pay you, but if you attack Somali pirates for us, you can keep all the plundered goods’?
The one thing this book brings up, that has some parallels to today’s private contractors, is the concept of profitable patriotism. Patriotism in itself is a good thing, but who says you cannot be a patriot, and make some good money in the process? It’s the American way, as this book has so blatantly pointed out. Although I think privateering might not be that popular of an idea in today’s politically correct world. But combining patriotism and profitability can and should be a concept we should not frown upon, and it is a combination that can be incredibly effective if regulated by the state properly. World War 2 and the military industry, pulled us out of the depths of despair after the Great Depression–don’t tell me some factories did not make some profit off of that war? Or the massive reconstruction contracts after that war? KBR eat your heart out.
And by regulation, I mean making sure that the laws are followed, as well as the contracts, yet still allowing for the free market to dictate the ebb and flow of the industry. And with globalization, regulation amongst the companies for this war, is increasingly difficult. As America puts more regulation on it’s own industry, and yet is unable to impact the global industry with the same regulations, then that is where we hinder our free market efficiency for this war. It is a problem that impacts most industry out there, and ours is not immune to this. -Head Jundi
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From Publishers Weekly
Patton (The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family) turns his attention to an often overlooked aspect of the Revolutionary War: maritime privateering, or legalized piracy. Patton is careful to distinguish the mixed motives of these patriot pirates, for often there was less patriotism than simple greed. Nevertheless, their work fulfilled George Washington’s strategic aim to win the war by exhausting Britain into giving up the struggle. In what Patton terms a massive seaborne insurgency that dwarfed the efforts of the colonists’ small navy, thousands of privateers nettled British shipping, sometimes gaining vast fortunes. Privateering also turned into a handy political issue when Benjamin Franklin, the American representative in France, succeeded in persuading his hosts to allow Yankee skippers to sell their booty in French ports—a breach of the country’s neutrality that aggravated diplomatic tensions, as Franklin knew it would, and helped cement Paris’s commitment to American independence. Patton gives an absorbing exhumation of an undersung subject that will be of particular interest to Revolution buffs. (May 20)
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