Brooksville civilian worker killed in Iraq (Another merc bites dust)

[saigon68]

Brooksville civilian worker killed in Iraq

http://www.hernandotoday.com/MGB1AZTF6TE.html

A Brooksville man working in Iraq has been killed during a roadside bomb attack near Takrit.

Gerald Lambert Jr., 46, was killed about 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11. Two others were also injured when their truck was hit by an improvised bomb while on a security detail for an American company assisting the military in the war-torn nation. Lambert was in the second truck of a two-vehicle convoy when they came under attack.

The injured were Chuck Meier, 36, of Sunrise, and Ajith Tyrell Senarath Grero from Sri Lanka. Lambert was a security specialist working for SOC-SMG, a Minden, Nev., company. He was hired last Feb. 6 to work in the company’s mobile security element contract in Iraq.

Initial reports from the field indicate that the convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) that wounded Meier, who was then rescued by his comrades. The second vehicle was attacked by another IED, killing Lambert. The two wounded men are receiving medical attention.


THESE GUYS GET LOTS OF CONTRACTS

http://www.defenselink.mil/Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3080

SOC-SMG Inc., Minden, Nev., was awarded on Aug. 17, 2005, a $6,266,287 firm-fixed-price contract for Internal Security Operations. Work will be performed at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on July 21, 2005, and 30 bids were received. The Joint Contracting Command, Iraq, is the contracting activity (W27P4A-05-C-0011).

CHECK OUT THIS ONE--THESE THUGS ARE TOTING MACHINE GUNS ON US SOIL

http://www.kurd.org/newsletters/20050118171449.html#5


WASHINGTON - A private security company staffed by former elite U.S. special-forces soldiers will provide security at polling places in the United States for people voting in Iraq's Jan. 30 parliamentary election.

Though U.S. officials said they were unaware of any specific threats to Iraqis voting in the United States or attempts to intimidate them, the hiring of Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG) of Minden, Nev., suggested that there's concern about possible attacks or attempts to intimidate voters.


In Iraq, SOC-SMG reportedly employs some 300 former U.S. military personnel to protect VIPs, convoys and American contractors involved in disposing of weapons caches. The former special-forces soldiers who work for the company are skilled in using a range of weapons, including American- and Soviet-designed light machine guns


at $2,000.00 a day per Thug

[leftchick]

1. "In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens"

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-10-10T162227Z_01_N10275842_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-IRAQ-USA-CONTRACTORS-COL.XML


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The war in Iraq has killed at least 647 civilian contractors to date, according to official figures that provide a stark reminder of the huge role of civilians in supporting the U.S. military.

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In response to questions from Reuters, a Labor Department spokesman said there had been 647 claims for death benefits between March 1, 2003, and September 30, 2006. The Defense Base Act covers both Americans and foreigners, and there is no breakdown of the nationalities of those killed. The Pentagon does not monitor civilian contractor casualties.

The death toll of civilians working alongside U.S. forces in Iraq compares with more than 2,700 military dead and, experts say, underscores the risks of outsourcing war to private military contractors.

Their number in Iraq is estimated at up to 100,000, from highly-trained former special forces soldiers to drivers, cooks, mechanics, plumbers, translators, electricians and laundry workers and other support personnel.

<snip>

"At its present size, the U.S. military could not function without civilian contractors," said Jeffrey Addicott, an expert at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. "The problem is that the civilians operate in a legal gray zone. There has been little effort at regulation, oversight, standardized training and a uniform code of conduct. It's the Wild West out there."

[saigon68]

3. Morning LC--- "It's the Wild West out there."

LOL


Quite the Bunch here's a picture from their site



http://hdsoc.com/index.php

[leftchick]

4. 100,000 cowboys!

eeeehhh haaaa!

Good morning saigon. Did you hear the latest? 140,000 Troops in Iraq until 2010! Damn! I think a draft is imminent. Unless of course we can still afford to pay mercenary prices.

[sattahipdeep]

2. $2,000.00 a day little turds

" Because it's a very sensitive thing -- what we do -- we stay off the radar,'' he said.

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Initial reports from the field indicate that the convoy was struck by an improvised
explosive device.

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Stopping car bombs and suicide attacks such as those that have been taking place in Iraq. :eyes: