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  • Maintaining the High-Mileage Contractor
    04/28/13

    Maintaining the High-Mileage Contractor
    By Erik McLaughlin You have been there, done that and have the scars to prove it. You are highly trained and well experienced. Along with all this experience and skill comes some hard miles on your body. Nobody said growing older would be easy, either. You can still do your job, and probably better than most of the “younger guys” but require a bit more maintenance than you used to. You are the high mileage contractor. The...
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  • 04/14/13

    Malarial Workplace: Keeping a Killer at Bay
    By Erik McLaughlin One of the most dangerous organisms on the planet weights only about two milligrams but kills over 600,000 people per year. The Anopheles mosquito is a tiny little killer that carries major death and destruction in the form of Malaria. Malaria comes from the Latin root of “Mal” and “Aria” meaning “bad air”. We now know that malaria is caused from a parasitic infection known as Plasmodium and spread through the bite of infected...
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  • Eric Harroun: The Occidental Jihadi
    04/07/13

    Eric Harroun: The Occidental Jihadi
    By Robert Young Pelton This article first appeared in Foreign Policy magazine and is a product of its editors. On April 8, Eric Harroun will appear with his public defender in an Alexandria, Virginia, court to answer charges that he conspired to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the United States. While such legal wording may suggest that he was looking to get his hands on a chemical or nuclear weapon, Harroun's alleged crime is actually...
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  • 04/02/13

    Blackwater 'Thank You' Sale, This Week Only
    To say "thank you" to Blackwater Alumni and BTW subscribers supporting this site, we are offering our three top-selling blades—the Grizzly, Ursa, and SPECWAR—at a discounted price of 40% less than the everyday price. That's an amazing savings, available for one week only.  The offer is good only from Friday, March 29, through Monday, April 8.  As always, each Blackwater knife comes with a no-questions-asked, lifetime warranty. To get the special pricing, enter code word "ALUMNI...
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  • The Taxman Cometh: Tips for Contractors
    03/18/13

    The Taxman Cometh: Tips for Contractors
    By Will Grant After spending eight and half years in the Marine Corps, like a lot of veterans, the Kansas-born officer took a job contracting. He signed on with one of the big, generic-sounding U.S. contractors as a weapons instructor training Afghans in 2011. Like many contracts, the work is hard, hours are long, and conditions are Spartan, but every sunset means good money in the bank. Our contractor spends almost all of his time overseas...
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  • Earning Its Keep: The HK416 Within the US Military
    03/02/13

    Earning Its Keep: The HK416 Within the US Military
    By Will Grant After a typically exhaustive two-year process, the Army may be ready to issue a new rifle to infantrymen for the first time in 50 years. Through what’s called the individual carbine competition, the Army is evaluating five rifles for widespread service as a replacement for the M4. The final product of that selection process will likely mean the end of the M16 family of weapons’ streak as the longest-running standard US infantry rifle. Of...
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  • Niger UAV Base Begs Question of Contractor Role
    02/24/13

    Niger UAV Base Begs Question of Contractor Role
    With President Obama's official mention of 100 servicemen heading to Niger to set up the US latest unmanned drone program, BTW couldn't help but wonder how many contractors will be included in not only the set up but also the servicing, targeting, flying and support of the new, supposedly unarmed program. The drone program pulls from over a dozen contractors and the Air Force estimates it requires 168 personnel to keep a Predator aloft for one...
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  • Battlground Colorado: The Frontier of Gun Rights
    02/24/13

    Battlground Colorado: The Frontier of Gun Rights
    By Will Grant DENVER—On Saturday, gun-rights advocates turned out in 120 cities across the nation to rally in support of their Second Amendment rights—rights, they say, are being eroded by politicians presenting ill-founded solutions to problems that have nothing to do with assault weapons, magazine capacity or background checks. Colorado has found itself at the center of the nationwide gun-law debate due to a package of four bills, currently before the state Senate, that proposes some...
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  • Sandal Stimulus: Afghans Make Combat Flip Flops
    02/16/13

    Sandal Stimulus: Afghans Make Combat Flip Flops
    By Will Grant Exports from Afghanistan are few. Raisins, rugs, opium, wool, other dried fruit, and that’s about it. It is the world’s sixth largest exporter of raisins, according to the Export Promotion Agency of Afghanistan, and it’s in full control of the world’s opium market, but decades of war have all but killed the export business in most of the country. In the last five years, exports of Afghan rugs, which account for 47% of export...
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  • Contractors: Who Needs Them?
    02/09/13

    Contractors: Who Needs Them?
    The September 2008 photo shows three well-known faces—Chuck Hagel, Joe Biden and John Kerry—standing in front of a Blackhawk helicopter on a snowy mountaintop. As former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry assumes his role as Secretary of State, vice president-elect Joe Biden and current Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, have an interesting story. After the incident Kerry issued a statement. He inferred that he had been “forced down” and that three key members of the Obama government, himself...
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  • Guntopia: Opinions from SHOT Show
    02/03/13

    Guntopia: Opinions from SHOT Show

    By Robert Young Pelton LAS VEGAS – Heavyset middle-aged men holding plastic bags loaded down with brochures crowd around the monitors at the trade show watching a silent CNN broadcast. They didn’t need sound to figure out what was going on: It was Jan. 16 and, standing on a stage flanked by schoolchildren, President Barack Obama was proposing a ban on assault-style weapons, tighter background checks and a number of other new gun control measures in...
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  • MissionX: Tactical Immersion
    02/03/13

    MissionX: Tactical Immersion
    By Will Grant At the bottom of an abandoned quarry in the Jordanian desert lies one of the premiere training facilities in the world. It’s called the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center, and it’s the brainchild of His Majesty, King Abdullah II. And when you consider the technology involved, the scale of the facility, and the comforts it provides, you might wonder if royalty isn’t somehow involved. It’s world-class all the way. “You walk two...
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  • Inside the Vaults of Long Mountain Outfitters
    01/25/13

    Inside the Vaults of Long Mountain Outfitters
    By Will Grant [caption id="attachment_3822" align="aligncenter" width="650" caption="© Erich Iveans"][/caption] For well over 30 years Dan Shea has been collecting weapons. He ETS’d out of the Army in the mid-70s and within a few years, started buying and selling guns, starting a side business from his construction company. He was good at it, and he enjoyed it. His collection and expertise grew. He secured government contracts as an armorer and trainer on foreign weapons. Now his company...
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  • SHOT Show 2013: A Few of Our Show Favorites
    01/19/13

    SHOT Show 2013: A Few of Our Show Favorites
    By Will Grant On the heels of a nationwide debate over gun control, this year’s SHOT Show was a highly anticipated event that received extraordinary media attention. But what may come as a disappointment to headline-seekers, there was little talk of impending gun bans and magazine-capacity restrictions. To most industry manufacturers and distributors, President Obama’s gun-control measures will be just another bump in the road. Companies like Glock and Bushmaster have weathered previous such storms and...
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  • More Women More Often Occupying Tactical Roles
    01/13/13

    More Women More Often Occupying Tactical Roles
    By Will Grant In the world of all things tactical, women are an increasing presence. There are more women today in law enforcement positions than ever before. More women are taking concealed carry classes, more women are at the shooting range and more women are becoming part what’s traditionally been thought of as a male-dominated industry. And while women are getting newfound recognition, there have been organizations and associations catering to tactical women for nearly a century...
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Blackwater is Back

Blackwater was founded in 1997 by former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince. The company soon became the largest dedicated training and security provider in the world, and the largest private security provider for the U.S. State Department. Blackwater protected and trained hundreds of thousands of people allowing them to operate safely in the world’s most hostile environments. Blackwater employees were chosen from the elite of the military, law enforcement, intelligence and security professionals who continued their service to our country by keeping members of the U.S. government, military, intelligence and relief workers safe from harm. On December 17, 2010 Blackwater sold its security and training operations.

Blackwater is now a global brand that stands for everything the men and women of Blackwater stood for: Excellence, Reliability and Unfailing Commitment to Duty and Service. Those same qualities are now found in the officially licensed Blackwater products and customer service.

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