I'm pretty sure each is referring to a specific and identical body of black water in N Caro...not a coincidence at all, but in fact a direct connection.
Any how, I know Blackwater (mercenaries incorporated) fairly well, some of their actors, and have been to the facility in Mayokc....or some such place, shooting off my wea...ur mouth
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The BW operators are all US Military Trained veterans of exclusively Special Forces grade. Huge egos, extremely well paid, equippped, and trained and they have no problem killing people. Not alot of folks who hold all those creds and quals.
Let's not forget that they have also shepharded, protected, or interfered with assination attempts on various VIPs, heads of state, diplomats, negotiators, and citizens in general. They've also taken casualties and ultimately sacrificed human resources.
Those are my observations, without reading any of the cited reports.
Our military is strechted thin, and they (us, you, DOD) obviously already kind of have all the assets they trained handy, fairly reliable, centrally locatable, self deployable, and it would seem somewhat accountable, to do some of this dangerous work. I'm not sure I see a problem with it.
-bear