Blackwater Tactical Weekly
June 13, 2005
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**FROM THE EDITOR:**
Good Morning,


Son, we live in a world that has powerpoint. And those slides need to be produced by men with oak leafs. Who's gonna do it? You? You with a star? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for my briefings and you curse my formatting. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that my briefings, while drawn out, probably save lives. . . You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at meetings, you want my presentations. You need my presentations. We use words like diagram gallery, paste special, clipboard . . . we use these words as the backbone of a job spent briefing something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain why I formatted an object to a man who briefs and gets promoted by the very presentation I make, then questions the way in which I format it! I'd rather you just said Thank You and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you make your own slide, and give the briefing. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think the slide should say.
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QUOTES FOR THE WEEK

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem."."

- Ronald Reagan

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Intelligence teams track evolution of enemy bombs

Submitted by our friends at The Terrorism Research Center (TRC) http://www.terrorism.com
The engine sitting upright on the tarmac, about 10 yards from the crater, gets the once-over from Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Tyson. It's the largest piece of an Opel sedan that a couple of hours earlier exploded into shreds that tore through nearby cars and people in this enclave southeast of Baghdad.
http://www.terrorism.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=WarReports&file=index&view=435

ID Protection

A corporate attorney sent the following out to the employees in his company.
1. The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.
2. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put "PHOTO ID REQUIRED".
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/061305id.html

URBAN Escape & Evasion

Scenario One:
You are on Patrol in Baghdad. Your group leaves the green zone in a convoy of hummers. As you enter the patrol area, your alert level jumps up a few notches. The .50s are manned. Your M4 is clutched tightly in your hands. As you round a corner, the hummer in front of you has slammed on its brakes. You hear the whoosh of an RPG as it flies over the hood of the hummer in front. A near miss. The fifty opens up. The hummers all empty as soldiers pour out to form an assault team. You join up with your fire team. The LT is issuing battlefield commands. You are to move to the left with your fire team to flank the ambushers. Another whoosh as an RPG hits your now empty hummer, setting it on fire and causing some serious damage. Time to look for another ride home. Your fire teams set up and begins to lay down some cover fire. Soldiers from the hummers behind yours run start to move up and assist. The ambush is well conceived.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/061305ee.html


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BREAKING NEWS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL
Border Patrol should consider outsourcing its training, lawmaker says
The Homeland Security Department may need to contract out the training for new Border Patrol agents to save money, a leading House Republican said.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Homeland Security subcommittee on management, integration and oversight, expressed shock at a May 24 hearing when reviewing cost estimates for the training of new agents. New agents are trained at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Ga.
http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=871199

Contractors Deny They Shot at Marines, Allege Mistreatment
U.S. Marines and employees of a contractor working for the military in Iraq offer sharply contrasting versions of a recent incident in which Marines in Fallujah detained 19 of the company's employees for three days after saying the contractors fired at them.
The contractors say they did not, and some now allege that the Marines abused them during their confinement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060901907.html

Norfolk-based destroyer wards off suspected piracy near Somalia
The Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer Gonzalez, using machine gun fire, rocket flares and searchlights, helped ward off a suspected pirate attack of a civilian ship in the Indian Ocean.
The Gonzalez received word of the attack in a radio call from the master of the motor vessel Tigris early Monday off the coast of Somalia, the Navy said Wednesday in a release from the 5th Fleet in Bahrain.
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=87541&ran=115433

Don't Follow the Money
THE morning the Deep Throat story broke, the voice on my answering machine was as raspy as Hal Holbrook's. "I just want you to remember that I wrote 'Follow the money,' " said my caller. "I want to know if anybody will give me credit. Watch for the accuracy of the media!"
The voice belonged to my friend William Goldman, who wrote the movie "All the President's Men." His words proved more than a little prescient. As if on cue, journalists everywhere - from The New York Times to The Economist to The Washington Post itself - would soon start attributing this classic line of dialogue to the newly unmasked Deep Throat, W. Mark Felt. But the line was not in Woodward and Bernstein's book or in The Post's Watergate reportage or in Bob Woodward's contemporaneous notes. It was the invention of the author of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Marathon Man" and "The Princess Bride."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12rich.html?ei=5090&en=bd5f3e3355981260&ex=1276228800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Antiterror Head Will Help Choose an F.B.I. Official
Under pressure from the White House, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has agreed to adopt the recommendations of a presidential commission and will allow the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, to help choose a powerful intelligence chief at the F.B.I., Bush administration officials say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/politics/12fbi.html?hp&ex=1118635200&en=fa8bf5042f1f6822&ei=5094&partner=homepage


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Outsmarting the terrorists
When visiting the Middle East over Memorial Day weekend, I must admit that I did not expect to see a sign for "Big Bob's Truck Stop and Up-Armor Facility" in Balad, Iraq. But again demonstrating the fortitude of the U.S. military, our soldiers established this facility in response to the increasing numbers of roadside bombs used against our convoys. As I toured "Big Bob's," I was overwhelmed by the U.S. military's tremendous ability to recognize a problem, work to find a solution and adapt to the challenges of the global war on terror. A ruthless band of cowardly terrorists are no match for our brave men and women in uniform.
http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050609-092935-1410r.htm

Bomb Blast Derails Moscow-Bound Train
A bomb packed with TNT blew a passenger train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow off its tracks Sunday, injuring at least 15 people on a Russian national holiday.
The blast occurred just hours before President Vladimir Putin marked the Day of Russia holiday with a reception and awards ceremony in the Kremlin.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=842446

Company accused of stealing from reconstruction projects
Former executives of Custer Battles - an American firm accused of stealing millions from Iraq reconstruction projects and banned from further government contracts - have continued doing contracting work and have formed new companies to bid on such projects, The Associated Press has learned. This may or may not be illegal, military officials say; Custer Battles officials deny any wrongdoing. The new companies (there are at least three) are all headed by Rob Roy Trumble, who previously was operations chief for Custer Battles, according to state records.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8195714/

Nine Killed, Dozens Hurt in Iran Bomb Attacks
Bomb blasts struck Iranian government buildings in the capital of an oil-rich border province, followed within hours by two other bombs in central Tehran, killing a total of nine people days before Iran's presidential elections.
Iran's security service blamed the bombings - the deadliest in Iran in more than a decade - on supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159283,00.html

Jury Gives Soldier Life for Killing 2 Comrades
An Army sergeant convicted of shooting two fellow soldiers to death last year at his farmhouse will serve life in prison with no chance of parole, a military jury decided Saturday.
Sgt. Aaron Stanley (search), a 23-year-old veteran of the Iraq war, was sentenced a day after his conviction by the same eight jurors on two counts of premeditated murder. They deliberated about six hours over his sentence - and only three hours over his guilt.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159273,00.html

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Blackwater Targets: More Than Just Steel

By: Frank Borelli, 13 June 2005
In any firearms training program, by far the most satisfying (for the shooter) training segment is that which uses reactionary targets. "What is a reactionary target?" you ask. It is any target that gives an immediate response to a hit. It can be a balloon that pops. It can be a semi-rubber paddle that makes a buzzer sound when it gets hit. But the most common type of reactionary target used today is steel.

From "pepper poppers" to falling plates to rotating targets, steel provides an immediate audible and visual response to the shooter. If the shooter misses, that sound is the sound of silence and the visual response is absolutely no movement. Think about that for a moment. That's the same visual and audible response you get from shooting paper targets most of the time. Unless you're close enough to see the hole, a shooter gets no response from shooting paper.

For the rest of the story: http://www.borelliconsulting.com/evals/other/bwtargets.htm
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CHAPLAINS CORNER
TO AND FOR PEACE KEEPERS OF THE MILITARY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AT ALL LEVELS AND ALL OF THOSE IN THEIR SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND ALL
WHO CARE ABOUT THEM AND THEIR WELFARE.

SEMPER FIDELIS..
(ALWAYS FAITHFUL.. U.S. Marine Corp motto adopted in 1868)

In Law Enforcement.. In the Military.. In ALL OF PEACE KEEPING..
THAT SHOULD BE OUR MOTTO AS WELL.. CONTINUOUSLY..
FOREVER!!!

WHEREVER WE ARE.. IN WHATEVER ACTION AND ACTIVITY WE SERVE..
IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE SO.

Sometimes I ask, "Who are you?"
Sometimes I ask, "What are you?"
Sometimes we confuse one with the other..
Sometimes they are so inseparably melded that there is no distinction.  A Warrior
is always a Warrior even if not in battle at any particular moment.  A Peace Keeper
is a Peace Keeper (and this is so in the hearts and minds of all true Warrior/Peace
Keepers) even if that Peace Keeper is not on a field of battle.. and even while
relaxing with family and loved ones.  We are who we are and we are what we are in
such a state of being that the two are not separable.. EVER.. but we must learn the
simplicity of control for whatever time and place  in which we happen to be.   Those
in our society that are not like us do not comprehend us..

A Warrior/Peace Keeper is ready for action and/or battle in an instant of notice and
are always prepared for it... BUT THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO RELAX AND
LOVE.. THEY CAN LEARN TO COMFORT AND GIVE COMPASSION.. AND
BE INSTANTLY READY TO ENTER INTO COMBAT TO RESTORE PEACE IN
LESS TIME THAT IT TAKES TO BLINK AN EYE.. IN LESS TIME THAN
NEEDED FOR ONE HEART BEAT.. IN LESS TIME THAN IS NEEDED FOR
ONE TENDER TOUCH.. OR ONE SOOTHING WORD.
Read the rest of the story: http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/articles/061305chaplain.html

Be Blessed(a condition to be envied by the world).
Be Successful. Be SAFE.
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