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    Default Current private special ops triggerpullers in Afghanistan (Q)

    I've ran into some guys who were private military types and went on raids. Is there something I could read about them? Because it perplexes the hell out of me. Why with all the SEALS and Rangers and Team A's, do we need private military contractors in these roles?

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    Sounds like someone is pulling your leg. Where did you meet these guys, in country or at home?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slouch View Post
    Sounds like someone is pulling your leg. Where did you meet these guys, in country or at home?
    Word is Cristians In Action are also using XE guys for deniable ops so why not?

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    Whats a Cristian?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Connaught Ranger View Post
    Whats a Cristian?
    A guy with a bad haircut

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    Quote Originally Posted by muttbutt View Post
    A guy with a bad haircut
    hahahaha! brilliant!

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    how would a bunch of white guysin afgan be deniable?
    its like the "operators" who were in basra for awhile brand new g wagon dressed in pristine white arabic robes think lawernce of arabia.
    it could'nt have been more covert if they had been wearing BDP's and omgdelta! t-shirts.

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    I think you just had a dose of smoke pumped through your anal orifice.

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    theres been cases of Dog Handlers and the like being contracted to US SF teams. so in principle its possible, but in all, if they were doing it they are unlikely to be down the pub telling you all about it.
    http://www.wardogs-afghanistan.blogspot.com/

    theres even a book about it

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    Anyone who does that stuff isn't going to be gobbing off about it.

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    I've run into a lot of goofy fckers in the last six years I've been in Iraq claiming to be everything from a "Special ops espionage dude" to "Cover Intel Sniper Team". Give someone a gun and a spiffy looking MOLLE rig and you can evolve into anything over here as a civilian contractor. Me, I'm just a "low speed, low drag" team leader of a group of South American and Ugandan guards. But, I do have a lot of cool Blood Diamond Pants!

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    Quote Originally Posted by aartamen View Post
    I've ran into some guys who were private military types and went on raids. Is there something I could read about them? Because it perplexes the hell out of me. Why with all the SEALS and Rangers and Team A's, do we need private military contractors in these roles?
    Was any of them called Jack Idema?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wildgoose View Post
    I've run into a lot of goofy fckers in the last six years I've been in Iraq claiming to be everything from a "Special ops espionage dude" to "Cover Intel Sniper Team". Give someone a gun and a spiffy looking MOLLE rig and you can evolve into anything over here as a civilian contractor. Me, I'm just a "low speed, low drag" team leader of a group of South American and Ugandan guards. But, I do have a lot of cool Blood Diamond Pants!
    Jambo!



    .....

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    Quote Originally Posted by aartamen View Post
    I've ran into some guys who were private military types and went on raids.
    Cool story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEPER0311 View Post
    Jambo!



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    Felt awkward about using that word, sounded racist until I found out it was actually Swahili.

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