Re: Iraq Gigs?
before everyone gets signed up to this blackwater gimmick, do some research on helicopter losses in iraq. to be precise there are more privatised operations going on there now than military. the US gov hires many contracted pilots and security organisations like BW. you can get paid up to U.S. $1000 a day as a contracted pilot. but as i found out its not all that fun. i was watching a documentary about the issues relating to private contractors in the counntry when a iraqi rebel group's (americans call them insurgents) video footage was shown firing at an oil helicopter. the helicopter crashed in a grassy field. all passengers killed on impact. amazingly, the pilot survived and was thrown clear of the heli into grass. the rebels found the man (of three young kids) and said, "get up, go!go!". the man began running, like the engineer in the movie 'the jackal'. while he ran he was gunned down. it's a horrible thing to shoot an unarmed man, but do you think for one second that those iraqi's where going to let the pilot go, so he could continue serving a corporation which saps iraqi oil out of iraq?
jacob.