# Blackwater employees in trouble... **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 22, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582 "2007-09-22T06:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JackdUp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jackdup/32/6015_2.png) [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/1 "2007-09-22T06:36:50Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap\_on\_go\_co/us\_blackwater\_probe](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_go_co/us_blackwater_probe) Uh-oh. This ain’t good. ---
**Author:** ![Evolved](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Evolved](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Evolved)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/2 "2007-09-22T06:57:11Z")
> **[Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army](https://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795)** > > On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled �Baghdad's Bloody Sunday, ... A fascinating read no matter which side of the use of Mercenaries by the USA you stand on. As far as the weapons sales? Sad but not surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Elhazzja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Elhazzja](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Elhazzja)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/3 "2007-09-22T07:12:32Z")
I trained there acouple of times… ---
**Author:** ![sexywhitegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@sexywhitegirl](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sexywhitegirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/4 "2007-09-24T16:05:07Z")
hmm… my x bf works for black water… hes in Afganistan rite now… oh well wut a coincidence ---
**Author:** ![burnyd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnyd/32/6020_2.png) [@burnyd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnyd)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/5 "2007-09-24T16:11:11Z")
oh wow ---
**Author:** ![85StangGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/278dde/32.png) [@85StangGT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/85StangGT)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/6 "2007-09-25T08:55:03Z")
To me this would be a job that i would not pass up… ---
**Author:** ![JackdUp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jackdup/32/6015_2.png) [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/7 "2007-10-02T22:48:09Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap\_on\_go\_co/blackwater\_iraq](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_go_co/blackwater_iraq) …reply from Blackwater leadership enclosed. ---
**Author:** ![JackdUp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jackdup/32/6015_2.png) [@JackdUp](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JackdUp)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/8 "2007-10-02T23:06:12Z")
> [@Texting while driving](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/texting-while-driving/32603/26): > > I trained there a couple of times… Then you understand the importance of the two posts I’ve made. You remember the first order of business as a Blackwater trainee…protect the objective…and "The kind of person that if an emergency appendectomy had to be done, you could hand them a book, come back an hour later, and the surgery would be over.” ---
**Author:** ![thebaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@thebaron](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/thebaron)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/blackwater-employees-in-trouble/192582/9 "2007-10-03T05:10:39Z")
I read an article that the state department hates the military and are a bunch of cowards (helping cause fire fights that did not need to happen), so that is why the blackwater are their escorts.