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Blackwater Security Consulting (BSC) was formed as a Delaware LLC in December 2001 and was the brainchild of Jamie Smith, a former CIA officer who was the Founding Director as well as acting Vice President of Blackwater USA. The company, based in Moyock, North Carolina, is one of the private security firms employed during the Iraq War to guard ...
- The Beginning
- Government Contracts
- Expansion
- Ethical and Legal Concerns
- Moving Forward with The Legacy Company
- What Happened to Erik Prince After Blackwater?
- Erik Prince’s Aviation Ventures
- Relationship Between Prince and The Trump Administration
Blackwater USAbegan in 1997 by Al Clark and Erik Prince. They started out as a private security firm providing training support to law enforcement, the justice department, and military organizations and received their first contract from the United States government in 2000 after the bombing of the USS Cole. In 1998, the private security firmbought...
During the war in Iraq, Blackwater was one of several private security companies use to guard officials, security guards, and military installations, train the Iraqi army and police forces, and provide other support for armed forces. Their first contact in Iraq was in summer of 2003 when they secured a $21 million contract for Personal Security Det...
Another training facility was acquired in fall of 2006 in Mount Carroll, Illinois, just west of Chicago. Called the Impact Training Center, it’s still in operation and works with law enforcement agencies throughout the Midwestern US. They also attempted to build a facility near San Diego but were met with a lot of resistance from local citizens and...
Blackwater’s legal issues are not a secret. They were widely reported at the time. On September 16, 2007, in Nisour Square, Baghdad, a group of Blackwater contractors tasked with guarding State Department employees opened fire on a small car driven by a couple with their child in tow. Employees claimed they were attackedfirst while other witnesses ...
In 2008, Blackwater announced that it would start to focus its services away from security contracting because of the risks involved. In February 2009, Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services LLC and restructured the company. One of the things it added is an ethics program. The next month, founder and CEO Erik Prince stepped down and in December...
After the departure of Erik Prince from his former company, Prince stayed active in private military interests around the world. He was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and moved to Abu Dhabi in 2010. He founded a new company called Reflex Responses (or R2) that entailed a roughly 800-man unit of foreign fighters for the UAE, where Prince ret...
FSG Ltd purchased stakes in two Kenyan aviation companies, Kijipwa Aviation and Phoenix Aviation, to provide logistics services for the country’s oil and gas industry, but later that year in October 2014, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority denied Kijipwa Aviation an aviation license renewal. That year, Prince also purchased a 25% stake in Austrian ...
Erik Prince was brought back into the limelight in 2017 when he wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal and suggested that the Trump administration privatize the war in Afghanistan. Prince is also the younger brother of United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, appointed under the Trump administration. APPLY FOR SECURITY JOBS
Erik Prince, the visionary founder of Blackwater, has embarked on new ventures following the sale of the company. While Prince's current focus is not on government contracting, his entrepreneurial spirit remains unwavering. He is open to the possibility of pioneering another Private Military Contractor (PMC) in the future, showcasing his ...
Aug 20, 2009 · January 1997: Blackwater is founded in North Carolina by former Navy SEAL Erik Prince, who uses inherited money from his father's auto-parts company to convert 6,000 acres of land into a state-of ...
Oct 2, 2007 · On Sept. 16, 2007, a convoy of Blackwater contractors guarding State Department employees entered a crowded square near the Mansour district in Baghdad, Iraq. But versions of what caused the ...
Three Ex-Blackwater Guards Are Resentenced in Iraq War Massacre. The men will serve about half of their original 30-year sentences for their roles in a 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq ...
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Jun 9, 2014 · The firm eventually changed its name to Xe in 2009 and then the facilities were sold to a private group of investors which formed a brand new company called "Academi" in 2010. Blackwater USA ...
